Intel® Core?2 Duo Extreme QX6850 $1095.99 w/ free S/H @ Buy.com

[Serradifalco]

I guess pretty soon we will have to choose between getting our inground pool or our new cpu! Any takers for this smokin' deal?

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[Basilisk]

You can have -my- in-ground pool for free... just take it away. Does that simplify your decision?

Your listed current rig is much saner than your suggestion that this is a deal.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Not Hot

 

[SiliconJon]

There's little point in spending more than $300 on a new processor.

 

[Serradifalco]

Originally posted by: Basilisk
You can have -my- in-ground pool for free... just take it away. Does that simplify your decision?

Your listed current rig is much saner than your suggestion that this is a deal.

You are right my current system cost me less than that cpu!

 

[imported_IronPlasma]

Don't forget to save $10 with GCO.

 

[havoti97]

Hot! In for 2

 

[bullbert]

What a bunch of whiners. I remember when the just the 487 coprocessor was $3700 for the top speed bin. And that was on top of what the 486 processor cost. When was that? Like 1988? These ankle biters have it so good now-a-days.

 

[SiliconJon]

[old man voice]
We had to walk to school with no shoes. It was uphill there and back.
[/end old man voice]

It's all relative! If it weren't for cheap CPU's I'd only upgrade once every 6 years, if at all.

 

[Serradifalco]

Originally posted by: SiliconJon
[old man voice]
We had to walk to school with no shoes. It was uphill there and back.
[/end old man voice]

It's all relative! If it weren't for cheap CPU's I'd only upgrade once every 6 years, if at all.

I think the cost of being a computer geek is at historic lows right now! Bullbert may have a valid point. Look at cpu and ram prices right now. Thye have never been this low.

 

[Tempered81]

dude, e4300 @ 3 ghz AND a pool, or e6850extreme and NO pool?

lol, 4300 at 3ghz runs at like 90 percent of the 6850, plus u can go swimming when ur done.

 

[bullbert]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
dude, e4300 @ 3 ghz AND a pool, or e6850extreme and NO pool?

lol, 4300 at 3ghz runs at like 90 percent of the 6850, plus u can go swimming when ur done.

What about swimming WHILE you compute? You are missing the free benefit of water cooling your system....

 

[Serradifalco]

Originally posted by: bullbert

Originally posted by: jaredpace
dude, e4300 @ 3 ghz AND a pool, or e6850extreme and NO pool?

lol, 4300 at 3ghz runs at like 90 percent of the 6850, plus u can go swimming when ur done.

What about swimming WHILE you compute? You are missing the free benefit of water cooling your system....

I think this discussion is all wet!

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: bullbert
What a bunch of whiners. I remember when the just the 487 coprocessor was $3700 for the top speed bin. And that was on top of what the 486 processor cost. When was that? Like 1988? These ankle biters have it so good now-a-days.

I had a 486DX2 66 mhtz in 1995 and I think it was one of the first cpus to come with the math coprocessor on die. Set me back around $600-700 bucks and I think the Pentiums were right around a grand if not more.

I also remember laying down $200 for 4 megs of ram and 1.2 gig drive being near a thousand bucks. Never again do I want to go there. Never.

Now here comes the guys talking about what they paid for their trash-80s. Come on, bring it.

 

[EliteRetard]

Originally posted by: JasonCoder

Originally posted by: bullbert
What a bunch of whiners. I remember when the just the 487 coprocessor was $3700 for the top speed bin. And that was on top of what the 486 processor cost. When was that? Like 1988? These ankle biters have it so good now-a-days.

I had a 486DX2 66 mhtz in 1995 and I think it was one of the first cpus to come with the math coprocessor on die. Set me back around $600-700 bucks and I think the Pentiums were right around a grand if not more.

I also remember laying down $200 for 4 megs of ram and 1.2 gig drive being near a thousand bucks. Never again do I want to go there. Never.

Now here comes the guys talking about what they paid for their trash-80s. Come on, bring it.

Yeah Ive always been on the up and up when it came to computers. While everyone was banging their C64s I was kicking ass with my kaypro, five times the power plus the 10MB HDD! Take that hippies!

And dont make me pull out the freaking puch cards! Yes, I still have some laying around...along with that 8MB 72pin dimm that i never did use. Freaking waste of 300$. Dang it...now that I think about it I want my money back. Im sure Ive got the reciept around here somewhere.

 

[invidia]

I just purchased a Corsair PSU from buy.com and chose the free S/H....... on the 16th. Shipped out on the 19th. Still not here yet.

At least when newegg does free shipping, it comes here in less than a week.


If you do want to get the QX6850, just pay extra for shipping, unless you don't mind getting it by mid-August.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: invidia
I just purchased a Corsair PSU from buy.com and chose the free S/H....... on the 16th. Shipped out on the 19th. Still not here yet.

At least when newegg does free shipping, it comes here in less than a week.


If you do want to get the QX6850, just pay extra for shipping, unless you don't mind getting it by mid-August.

Then that would be a fault of the shipping company and not buy.com...blame the right party

 

[alaricljs]

Yeah, buy.com has always come in way under estimates with free shipping to my location... Bought that same PSU a few months back and it came in 3 days, before I even got a ship notice by email...

As for RAM prices... I paid $2k for 64MB... the most my machine could hold 8x 8MB sticks. $650 for a Adaptec SCSI controller with the VLB extension... what a friggin waste of money. This is back when a computer "show" (coliseum sales event really) actually saved you money and presented you with stuff you couldn't get anywhere else. Now shows are for people to hang out and talk shop more than anything else. My son will never know what it's like to go to a computer show all excited about seeing the new products in their boxes.... *sigh*

Back on topic... it always amazes me that people actually buy the top bin rather than the best bang for buck...

 

[crystal]

I read it as $109.59 and wonder why people complains?

 

[Onund]

I'm confused, does QX not denote quad-core extreme? Also, are 6x50 not 1333MHz FSB?

nevermind, according to:
http://www.intel.com/products/.../core2xe.htm
it would seem Buy.com isn't describing the part correctly.

I was lucky enough growing up that my older brother did all the spending on computer gear. I did suffer through the days of 1/2hr floppy formats and messing with boot disks to free up enough memory for games to run.

edit: haha, if I looked at the box in the picture I would have seen 'quad' right on there.

 

[Diogenes2]

That is hot !!

$1,480.00 at Newegg ..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...16819115026&Tpk=QX6850

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: Serradifalco

Any takers for this smokin' deal?

It may be smokin'... but it's ice cold.

 

[Don66]

It's a hot deal if you want the fastest quadcore Intel has out right now.

 

[Serradifalco]

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: Serradifalco

Any takers for this smokin' deal?

It may be smokin'... but it's ice cold.

The reason I posted it was because it was the lowest price for this just-released cpu. Obviously you can probably save over $800.00 and get just as much thrill out of a QX6600.
Sorry I will try to post "hotter" deals in the future.

 

[SiliconJon]

Oh that's ok, you gave us a fun conversation.