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Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E6300 for $199 shipped at ZipZoomFly

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I find it kind of funny how AAtech touts conroe as such an amazing deal compared to AMD's cpu's with a price cut when the prices they quote of Conroe are getting gouged, so-called amazing overlclocking performance for the money requires a $250 motherboard and new DDR2 ram means an extra $150-250 for me. Why the hell should I have to pay for a new set of ram and ditch everything I have when the DDR1/DDR2 performance difference is negligible? For one who already has a 939 motherboard with DDR1 RAM, just upgrading to a discounted cpu makes for a better value that aatech let's on.
 
Originally posted by: Sonikku
I find it kind of funny how AAtech touts conroe as such an amazing deal compared to AMD's cpu's with a price cut when the prices they quote of Conroe are getting gouged, so-called amazing overlclocking performance for the money requires a $250 motherboard and new DDR2 ram means an extra $150-250 for me. Why the hell should I have to pay for a new set of ram and ditch everything I have when the DDR1/DDR2 performance difference is negligible? For one who already has a 939 motherboard with DDR1 RAM, just upgrading to a discounted cpu makes for a better value that aatech let's on.
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Was thinking the same thing. Yeah the cpu is cheaper and performs very well but everything else to make the cpu work is priced sky high right now so really not saving-performance IMO as well.

If mem was under $100 for 1gig, a mobo could be picked up for around $50-$100 then hell yes I am ready to didtch my system and actually jump ship but not at the prices are at for the moment. May change once they are out for a bit and people start to ditch the stuff down the line but for now I like my 939 mobo and 3200+ oc'd to 2400ghz.
 
Originally posted by: busmaster11
Am I the onely one here who finds it prudent to wait till a mature platform comes out so that the chips are more mature (thus more headroom for oc) and the mobos support enough tinkering with chipset and nb voltages so we can oc further on these things, because from my understanding, mobos right now don't get near the actual thermal oc ceiling for conroe due to these other limitations...

or am I just smoking crack I dunno...
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I guess that means that two of us are smoking crack as I agree exactly with what you are saying. I bought a X2 4600.
 
Originally posted by: Sonikku
I find it kind of funny how AAtech touts conroe as such an amazing deal compared to AMD's cpu's with a price cut when the prices they quote of Conroe are getting gouged, so-called amazing overlclocking performance for the money requires a $250 motherboard and new DDR2 ram means an extra $150-250 for me. Why the hell should I have to pay for a new set of ram and ditch everything I have when the DDR1/DDR2 performance difference is negligible? For one who already has a 939 motherboard with DDR1 RAM, just upgrading to a discounted cpu makes for a better value that aatech let's on.
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Did you even stop to consider that not everyone happens to own a Socket 939 board?
And for that matter you can't use the new AM2 CPU's either, and those are from AMD.

So anybody on Socket 754, Socket 478, etc. can just make their next board a 775 board. And lots of 775 owners already have compatible boards.

Seriously man, the universe doesn't revolve around your computer.

I don't have any S939 systems myself, I have one Socket 478, and one Socket 754 system, and both use DDR1-but the performance difference between my systems and Core 2 make it the best upgrade, upgrading to S939 now would be retarded.

 
Originally posted by: Sonikku
I find it kind of funny how AAtech touts conroe as such an amazing deal compared to AMD's cpu's with a price cut when the prices they quote of Conroe are getting gouged, so-called amazing overlclocking performance for the money requires a $250 motherboard and new DDR2 ram means an extra $150-250 for me. Why the hell should I have to pay for a new set of ram and ditch everything I have when the DDR1/DDR2 performance difference is negligible? For one who already has a 939 motherboard with DDR1 RAM, just upgrading to a discounted cpu makes for a better value that aatech let's on.
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DS9 mobo is 150$ shipped from clubit.
 
E6600 @ $379.00 and OOS. Man, looks like the only people getting pwnd are those who can't wait for price to lvl out.
 
There are several cheap motherboards available for Conroe now. No, they're not super awesome overclocker boards, but even the worst boards seem to be able to hold a 300Mhz FSB. So while you won't be hitting the kind of overclocks you would with a $250 or even a $140 board, you'd most likely be ahead of the AMD cost equivalent anyway-or be about tied.

Anyways, if you're serious about performance the DS3 can overclock very well with the latest BIOS (and perhaps some modding). And $140ish isn't exactly insanely priced, lol.
 
Originally posted by: ricochet
Just have to be patient. I will bite once the E6400 hits MSRP.
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I forgot, what is the MSRP on the E6400?

ZZF has it at 244.50 shipped. Seems pretty good to me.

Edit: E6300 retail now $193 shipped from ZZF. OP, please edit OP. 😀
 
thats hot... I bought the Fry's combo deal a couples of weeks ago w/ an OEM chip and it was DOA.

I'll be heading there in a couple of hours to pick that up along w/ the Antec PSU...
 
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