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Anticipated Price Drops

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Nubnub

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I've been bit by the "upgrade bug" and I've been researching my dream machine quite a bit these days. I know I want to grab an e6600 and possibly a p5b deluxe or p5w, but it seems that a lot of new parts are coming out in the near future so my question is:

1) How much of a price drop do you think the Kentsfield release in November will bring?

2) Are there any new motherboard/chipset releases I should be aware of before investing in a P5B or P5W?

3) Are there any other components I should be waiting on if I'm gonna upgrade? I know the DX10 cards are expected this January, but I feel like I can upgrade that sometime later next year. I also realize that a lot of current monitors aren't HDCP so I could probably hold off on that until I have more choices.

Thanks for any info/opinions you guys can provide! And yes I plan to OC that beast so hard that all lights in my house will dim when I power it up.
 
Kentsfield will probably bring prices on the E6800 and E6700 down a bit. Aside from that, I don't expect it to affect prices. It might force AMD to lower prices on some of their expensive processors as well, or it may not.

To address point #2, let me remind you that DFI will be releasing a board sometime soon (this month maybe?) based on ATI's RD600 chipset. With luck, the board may have a decent price tag on it that will force potentially-inferior 975x and 965-based boards downward price-wise. Regardless of what happens to Conroe motherboard prices, I'd be looking at the DFI board anyway. Sounds like it's going to be great.
 
1. Little or none, since it's an "Extreeeeme!!!" part with no competition.

Expect price drops once AMD puts out the real quads (vs. duals glued together).
 
It would be funny if AMD, since they are hiding almost all the facts about their quadfather, suddenly came out with an 8 core chip to lay the smack down on Intel. However very unlikely, I would also take part in that laugh.
 
8 cores would be pretty pointless right now, and wouldn't "lay the smack down" on anyone. Forget the lack of application support. 99+% of the home market doesn't even use an OS capable of running that many cores. Windows XP supports only 2 physical/4 virtual CPU's and that's higher than any other home targetted Windows OS. To get anything more than that on a Windows system, you would need to be running 2000 advanced server or some higher end version of Server 2003. Neither of which are very common among home users.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
1. Little or none, since it's an "Extreeeeme!!!" part with no competition.

Expect price drops once AMD puts out the real quads (vs. duals glued together).
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If you are referring to Conroe, then you are mistaken. Core2 Duo (and quad, octo, etc) all use a common communiations "crossbar" that is similar (yet propritetary) to what AMD uses.

However your metaphor is (sort of) correct if you are talking about the Pentium 4D.
 
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