Will Q6600's still be manufactured after this week?

Does anyone know of any documentation as to whether the Core 2 Quads that are going on sale this week will still be manufactured after this week?

I've decided on a Q6600 as the CPU for my new build, and I'm still looking into other parts, plus I have to get some work out of the way before I start buying and building. The clock starts ticking on a 30 day exchange or return as soon as you buy, so I'd like to wait until I'm ready, but that may not be for 2 to 4 weeks.

What I'm getting at is: "Is there a rush to buy one this week, even though I'm not really ready to build? Is Intel still cranking out new Q6600's, or is the supply limited to what's in stock now?"

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well it will probably just be price cut since new, better processors are coming out for like the same price or cheaper than what it is priced at right now, if you don't have a mobo already maybe get a fbs1333 so you can get the new processors

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Yes, they are going to continue manufacturing. You may want to wait a month anyways - to let the old ones sell out of the channel. There is a new stepping out called G0, which is more power/heat efficient and supposedly a better overclocker than the current ones.

If you're unfamiliar with the term "Stepping" - think of it as a "Revision Number" for CPUs.

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AARRGGHHH wrote :

Does anyone know of any documentation as to whether the Core 2 Quads that are going on sale this week will still be manufactured after this week?

I've decided on a Q6600 as the CPU for my new build, and I'm still looking into other parts, plus I have to get some work out of the way before I start buying and building. The clock starts ticking on a 30 day exchange or return as soon as you buy, so I'd like to wait until I'm ready, but that may not be for 2 to 4 weeks.

What I'm getting at is: "Is there a rush to buy one this week, even though I'm not really ready to build? Is Intel still cranking out new Q6600's, or is the supply limited to what's in stock now?"

Thanks

Yes. The only reason people are all excited about buying them is that they're cheaper with the pricecut; they aren't going out of production.

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exit2dos wrote :

Yes, they are going to continue manufacturing.

lordaardvark2 wrote :

Yes, they aren't going out of production.

Thank you, that's very good to know.

Is the same true for the Intel D975XBX2 (Bad Axe 2) Motherboard? I doubt they'd continue to manufacture the chips and not continue to manufacture the 975X board that the chips were made for, particularly when the Intel p35 is mainly an inexpensive Vista board, and the Bad Axe 2 is selling for twice as much. In fact, I think they're still manufacturing 945 and 965 boards. I'm curious as to what other may know.

I know that the new P35 boards are more future-safe, but Intel's contribution seems to be oriented toward Vista, and I like the idea of using an Intel board, so I'll likely stay with the Bad Axe 2.

Also, if anyone has any links as to what Intel has said regarding how long they'll continue the Q6600 and/or Bad Axe 2 manufacturing, I'd enjoy reading them.

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With the new G0 steping i should think that they 'll continue to produce it for a while !

The 975X is a good north bridge but the south bridge is lame by today's standart. They make lots of chipset watter cooler for that mobo if your into that kingd of a thing! Tigerdirect had good deals on combo q6600 OEM (no fan) and BadAxe2 before the price cut. I'm looking to see if they are ajusting the price of that combo today .

To stick with Intel I'll try my q6600 on a q965 mobo soon. I think that it's the best mobos in the destop class from Intel at the moment since they don't make high end P35 mobo.

You could wait for x38 high end chipset this fall, but it seems that Intel is not repeating their try in the Oc mobo after the bad axe 2.

Be shure to get the "2" of the bad axe because earlier versions aren't certified Quad core.
Alain :-)

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Reply to middlemarkal

Intel is coming out with their new "Bonetrail" X38 board as a replacement for the BX2. Hopefully it will be out in the next few weeks.

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AARRGGHHH wrote :

Thank you, that's very good to know.

Is the same true for the Intel D975XBX2 (Bad Axe 2) Motherboard? I doubt they'd continue to manufacture the chips and not continue to manufacture the 975X board that the chips were made for, particularly when the Intel p35 is mainly an inexpensive Vista board, and the Bad Axe 2 is selling for twice as much. In fact, I think they're still manufacturing 945 and 965 boards. I'm curious as to what other may know.

I know that the new P35 boards are more future-safe, but Intel's contribution seems to be oriented toward Vista, and I like the idea of using an Intel board, so I'll likely stay with the Bad Axe 2.

Also, if anyone has any links as to what Intel has said regarding how long they'll continue the Q6600 and/or Bad Axe 2 manufacturing, I'd enjoy reading them.

Thanks

Things don't go out of production that easily. These products of which you speak are new; they'll be here for quite some time. Although newer and better things are always coming out, the old sticks around for a good bit, too. For example, you can still buy NEW processors for Socket 754, an AMD socket that was first released about 4 years ago (around 2003).

As long as you're planning a build with these parts sometime this DECADE, you shouldn't have a problem getting them.

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Reply to lordaardvark2

uh... how do 4 cores running at 3Ghz equate to 12Ghz?

how can anyone have an "old hand" status, but still can't get understand this simple concept?

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uh... how do 4 cores running at 3Ghz equate to 12Ghz?

how can anyone have an "old hand" status, but still can't get understand this simple concept?

I was ripping my hair out when I read that, but forced myself to keep my mouth shut. I'm surprised that that myth is still perpetuated. :sarcastic:

Yes, 4 x 3= 12, but that doesn't mean that a 3 Ghz Quad-core processor operates at 12 Ghz. Thats like saying an AMD 6000+ is equal to a Pentium proc at 6 Ghz. Doesn't work that way.

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now i finally know how people come up with "k10 runs at 10 Ghz..."

Reply to yomamafor1

Supremelaw...
‘’If I were Intel, and I had enjoyed as much success
with their C2D architecture, I would build new factories
for the very latest e.g. 45nm chips, and run existing
factories at full tilt manufacturing the existing C2D CPUs.’’

The factories are grossly expensive, it wouldn’t be cost efficient unless the sales maintained of the old processors AND the new ones… this is an old article (2005) but you’ll get the idea… your talking 3 Billion for a factory, they don’t just make new ones everyday.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/arc [...] 25corp.htm

Intel To Build New 300 mm Wafer Factory In Arizona
$3 Billion Investment for Future Generation Platform Products

Reply to grieve

lordaardvark2 wrote :

I was ripping my hair out when I read that, but forced myself to keep my mouth shut. I'm surprised that that myth is still perpetuated. :sarcastic:

Yes, 4 x 3= 12, but that doesn't mean that a 3 Ghz Quad-core processor operates at 12 Ghz. Thats like saying an AMD 6000+ is equal to a Pentium proc at 6 Ghz. Doesn't work that way.

Reply to ddwaldon

Not much of a price cut today. Ill be waiting until Oct prob to build my system.

Reply to BandHog

middlemarkal wrote :

With the new G0 steping i should think that they 'll continue to produce it for a while !

The 975X is a good north bridge but the south bridge is lame by today's standart. They make lots of chipset watter cooler for that mobo if your into that kingd of a thing! Tigerdirect had good deals on combo q6600 OEM (no fan) and BadAxe2 before the price cut. I'm looking to see if they are ajusting the price of that combo today .

To stick with Intel I'll try my q6600 on a q965 mobo soon. I think that it's the best mobos in the destop class from Intel at the moment since they don't make high end P35 mobo.

You could wait for x38 high end chipset this fall, but it seems that Intel is not repeating their try in the Oc mobo after the bad axe 2.

Be shure to get the "2" of the bad axe because earlier versions aren't certified Quad core.
Alain :-)

Not exactly true. The -304 Bad Axe had support for both Conroe and Kentsfield added. But you are right that the Bad Axe 2 officially supports Kentsfield from launch.

Keep in mind that I have not seen anywhere that Bad Axe 2 will officially support the newer 1333 FSB processors. It should be able to run the new processors but if they don't update the Bios with the new uCode for the 1333 FSB processors you might have it run successfully on the Bad Axe 2 but their might be stability issues.

There is a supported processor list at intel.

http://support.intel.com

Follow the links to motherboards and then to Bad Axe 2 look for the support processor link to see if it does officially support the new 1333 processors. Caveat, if you don't see it listed it does not mean that it won't support officially, Intel has been slow updating those pages.

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