When does 775 die ?

I5's will be out in a month. Save your money for them

All depends on how much you want to spend. I5 setup is going to run in essence 400-500 american.. Not sure what the exchange rate into pounds is.

He wants to upgrade, not get a new platform for an incremental performance increase.

Telling me that its already dead isnt really helpfull guys, the Q8400 isnt the fastest chip for that socket but when overclocked it keeps a stock i7 honest as far as gaming goes at reasonable resolutions. I know it gets left behind a bit at the very top end but thats not where im at so thats all not really relevant to me.
Im just worried about missing the boat price wise as usually the price will drop off and then go up when the chips get less abundant.
I guess i just have to wait for next months reviews of the i5. If the results are that compelling i will save for a year or so and then get a new set up. If not i can get a highend 775 chip.

Mactronix

Considering as how S478 CPU can still be got, I wouldn't worry about S775 CPU's becoming scarce any time soon.

As it happens i was talking to someone who i have known around a different forum for ages about this today and they told me that the chips wont be going anywhere soon.
So with this info on board im quite happy to wait a bit and see what happens with the prices, at least i know they wont be just stopping making them.

Mactronix

Keep asking mac, as time grows nearer to i5s launch, there should be a few deals

^ they're not manufacturing them anymore, hence the reason for LGA1156's delay, they delayed 1156 because retailers wouldn't be able to sell off their Core 2 Quad stock when 1156 comes out, and they would have still had Core 2 stock now if 1156 came out in July.

looks like the shelves are getting stocked with i5s already
http://forum.coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=216271

Intel will keep making 775 CPUs, just not faster ones than what's out now. Basically they will have enough supply to keep their business customers happy for a year or so. As yields get better lower power versions will be introduced, which may allow for better overclocking. You won't see any new steppings (perhaps a small one if it simply improves yeilds) or die shrinks for LGA 775 CPUs though.

Well again I do not know where you guys are getting this info from....

As far as the Core2Duo's, they ARE NOT being manufactured anymore.. Do you guys really know how this process works? When Intel is ready to launch a new socket (LGA 1156 for example), before they setup the platform for the new rollout they manufacture around 5-10 million units (depending on "supply & demand ATM) and stock up... Then they start producing the new chips and ONLY the new chips, in this case the i7's and i5's and some Xeons that will be replaced later by a new chip..... Yea the LGA 775 quads are still being manufactured in low quantities due to the fact that there is no high demand for them now since the i7 took over....Once the i5's come out full force the only chips that will be currently manufactured by intel are the i7's and i5's... the rest will be history.....

Intel works in a similar way as to Apple and Blackberry....

When the first iphone came out, Apple sold more than 10 mil in the first 6 months...Then as time progressed Apple came out with the newer more powerfull iphone and stopped making the first version since they already had produced more than what they were going to sell.... Then they started to sell the first gen phones at a much lower price just to get rid of them ASAP...and so forth....this is the way companies manufacture their products...the cost of producing old-school products and new products at the same time is out of the question since the manufacturing costs would be too high....(note: this process is done with most tech related companies and does not have to do with everyday necessities)

well, back to the OP, you are thinking of a Q8400, what do you have now?

This is funny for so many reasons. Believe what you want, "dad".

Ummmm anyone for a beer? Or cake, cake is good

OEM will decide when it will be dead.. jus like DDR memory.

You don't need a processor upgrade, just buy a SSD! ^.^

Im good, I hope you are as well.... This kind of discussion is what keeps me going, didnt mean to offend your point of view.... I don't take anything personal either... so its all good in my book.....

and cake, tho I heard its a lie

Ok, so back to the subject.....

ATM I am trying to collect as much old hardware as possible... This might sound stupid, but I would like to run 7750's and E8500's in the future when in fact they will be obsolete and useless..... The reason for this is to compare real-world numbers from the past and present and see how they differ, later on I will take pictures of different parts and compare them to the newer ones... Kinda like a hobby....You can use this as an example, the other day my nephew saw an original NES system that was for sell on e-bay... So I decided to go for it and see if it would work once connected to my Tv... To my surprise the dam thing was working w/o a hitch, i was playing Super mario Bros. and reminissing on the old days.... Thats what I want to do with the 775's and AM2+'s....

Dead as in Intel is not developing and producing s775 platform anymore? Certainly that bulk of their efforts are on the i7 and i5's. But did Intel not release the E7600 like a month ago?

However, so long as you have room to move up I'd say you aren't screwed. If you have a Q9550 right now, then yes- you're dead. But I can upgrade my E8400 to an E8600 or go quad.

First mat, you didn't state what you wanted this computer to do. You mentioned gaming, but is that all? Second, with respect to gaming, the i7 can't really best the Q9xxx. You'll need an i7 for the extreme high end with CF/SLI x2 chips, but most of us don't do that. If you looking to game at 1680x1050/1920/1080, then a q8/9xxx will be fine. I doubt i5 will be better then the quads seeing as the i7 wasn't. There is the issue of how the integrated PCIe controller will effect things, but I doubt it will make the i5 the gaming god. (the ability to turbo boost 1/2 cores to nearly 4GHz might be worth it however.)

In short I suspect that your current plans are good. Get a good quad, overclock as needed. Moving to i5 will not only require buying the more expensive chip, but the motherboard and DDR3 ram as well. Quad S775 will still be gaming for quite awhile, don't worry about that.

Um as its kinda like my thread can i have some cake and rum please

Well im running a overclocked 3.0 E4600 so i have plenty of room for moving up. Im mindfull that the extra cores may actualy be of use in the not to distant future. That and the E8400 and Q8400 are basically the same price ???? I dont understand that but hey.
There isnt anything i cant play at the minuite, some things i cant max but thats by the by as far as im concerned, as long as its playable frames and respectable image quality im good.
Gaming, home movie encoding a bit and web surfing is basically what the rig will be doing.

Oh and OvrClkr,
Your still wrong
Mactronix

The E7600 is a chip that was produced more than 6 months ago but was not released till about 5 weeks ago... The reason for this was Intels Line-Up.... and the fact that AMD is gaining ground on thier x2's and x4's....

the OEMs would love these non upgradeable EoL cheapo parts lol