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Q6600 (overclocked to 3ghz) GAp35-DS-3L mobo, 4BG corsair ddr2800, 9600gt(512mb), 2x dvd burner,250gb hard drive,500gb hard drive, black antec p182 case with corsair 750 watt psu. 2nd pc Dell 1505 core duo laptop, 2gb, 120gb hard drive ,combo drive.
EPIC FAIL - especially at the current prices. It needs to be around $100, not $165 - $195. It fails miserably in single/dual threaded software and still loses in multithreaded software when compared to the Wolfdale based C2Ds (E7x00/E8x00).
Message edited by epsilon84 on 04-20-2008 at 01:57:09 AM
Its expensive cause it just released, just wait 2 weeks and it'll be cheap.
My guess is that it's expensive because AMD has good yields on the quads. The triple-cores are just quads with one core fused off, so if they have to blow fuses on a perfectly good quad to meet the demand for X3s, then X3 prices will be nearer to those of the quads. AMD doesn't want to intentionally have to take a hit on their revenues just because the demand on certain CPUs isn't optimal.
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UNIX is user-friendly- it's just picky who its friends are.
DRM is slowly killing personal computing, one Sony rootkit and TPM chip at a time.
If they drop the price I can see they would be a good rig for encoding ... a cheap workhorse machine ... so you can spend more time on the main rig gaming ... LOL.
I'm guessing that is total cache 512KB x 3 and 2MB L3 wichh is 1.5MB L@ total and 2MB L3.
LOL, duh forgot about that my bad
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Q6600 (overclocked to 3ghz) GAp35-DS-3L mobo, 4BG corsair ddr2800, 9600gt(512mb), 2x dvd burner,250gb hard drive,500gb hard drive, black antec p182 case with corsair 750 watt psu. 2nd pc Dell 1505 core duo laptop, 2gb, 120gb hard drive ,combo drive.
If they drop the price I can see they would be a good rig for encoding ... a cheap workhorse machine ... so you can spend more time on the main rig gaming ... LOL.
I will wait till the price drops a bit.
Me three, get it me three(i know its lame but i couldnt resist
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Q6600 (overclocked to 3ghz) GAp35-DS-3L mobo, 4BG corsair ddr2800, 9600gt(512mb), 2x dvd burner,250gb hard drive,500gb hard drive, black antec p182 case with corsair 750 watt psu. 2nd pc Dell 1505 core duo laptop, 2gb, 120gb hard drive ,combo drive.
Those numbers don't look like an epic fail. They just need to lower the price. And the review site needs to upgrade their AMD testbed to something that is AM2+. Every single one of those processors was clocked higher than 2.3ghz except for the e4500.
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AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, ZeroTherm Nirvana 120 Premium CPU Cooler, MSI K9a2 Platinum bios 1.1b3 or P.0J, 4GB (2x2) Mushkin DDR2 1066 (pc8500) 5-5-5-15 2.05v RAM, Sapphire Toxic HD3870, Raidmax RX-700SS PSU, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320gb SATA2 X
Newegg prices are always outrageous when the product first arrives.... and those reviews were horse crap.........something was wrong there......we all saw the review months ago that showed the tri's were nearly as fast as the quads in multi-threaded apps......so something was definately wrong with those recent tests.
How can tris be nearly as fast as quads in multithreaded tests? It's a 3:4 ratio. And they charge high prices for new items everywhere, not just Newegg. Nothing's wrong here.
amazing price/performance!!!
