Intel P4 Price drops

[Shagga]

Just needed to know before I buy thats all. Looking at the P4 670 but it's £420. I'm sure these were £600 ish a few weeks ago so the price drop may have already happened.

Cheers all. 😉

 

[Markfw]

Why would you get that ??? If your 3.4 isn;t good enough, the only real step up would be an X2.

 

[Shagga]

Sorry mate,

Been through all this in other threads. New mobo, means new socket CPU, which mean some PCI-E 7800GTE loveliness etc etc....and I'm a bit of an Intel advocate. Thats not to say I don't like AMD, they are unquestionably a faster processor but your system is only as fast as your slowest component. 😉

 

[Maximilian]

You picked the right company! :thumbsup:

 

[Hard Ball]

Originally posted by: Soviet
You picked the right company! :thumbsup:

Wow, can't believe how much fanboyism there is on the board. :disgust:

Edit: on either side, that is.

 

[coldpower27]

They recently dropped prices on the 6xx Series on the 14th of August. to 605US for the 670.

 

[Furen]

You'd get like a 7% performance improvement going to a 670. I'd say you should wait for Intel's 65nm dual cores, then again, they probably wont be cheap for a while.

 

[Shagga]

Originally posted by: Furen
You'd get like a 7% performance improvement going to a 670. I'd say you should wait for Intel's 65nm dual cores, then again, they probably wont be cheap for a while.

Thanks all. Will the 65nm cores be a S775 derivative?

 

[Bona Fide]

Originally posted by: Shagga

Originally posted by: Furen
You'd get like a 7% performance improvement going to a 670. I'd say you should wait for Intel's 65nm dual cores, then again, they probably wont be cheap for a while.

Thanks all. Will the 65nm cores be a S775 derivative?

Looks like it. Intel hasn't made any announcements about a new socket.

 

[Furen]

I'd guess they will be 775... the problem is will they be socket compatible?

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Shagga

Originally posted by: Furen
You'd get like a 7% performance improvement going to a 670. I'd say you should wait for Intel's 65nm dual cores, then again, they probably wont be cheap for a while.

Thanks all. Will the 65nm cores be a S775 derivative?

Most likely, but they will also most likely require a new chipset, but perhaps we'll be lucky and they will work on 945/955 chipsets with a bios update. I am much happier with my X2 though. My P4 motherboard just died when my neccessary watercooling(since even an XP-120 couldn't keep it from throttling at stock speed(550 3.4ghz)) sprung a leak and fried the motherboard.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: Hard Ball

Originally posted by: Soviet
You picked the right company! :thumbsup:

Wow, can't believe how much fanboyism there is on the board. :disgust:

Edit: on either side, that is.

This shows your not a team player. Pick a side and stick with it! 😛

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: stevty2889

Originally posted by: Shagga

Originally posted by: Furen
You'd get like a 7% performance improvement going to a 670. I'd say you should wait for Intel's 65nm dual cores, then again, they probably wont be cheap for a while.

Thanks all. Will the 65nm cores be a S775 derivative?

Most likely, but they will also most likely require a new chipset, but perhaps we'll be lucky and they will work on 945/955 chipsets with a bios update. I am much happier with my X2 though. My P4 motherboard just died when my neccessary watercooling(since even an XP-120 couldn't keep it from throttling at stock speed(550 3.4ghz)) sprung a leak and fried the motherboard.

Weird. I've got my 550 running just below throttling temps under full load at stock speeds(BIONC running two SETI@home threads) with a Thermaltake TR2 running at 2500RPM and AS5. The temps usually peak around 72C, but Throttlewatch doesn't show any throttling. My P4 model 550 was getting up to 80C until I switched from the stock compond on the TR2 to AS5 and I was seeing some serious throttling, so I know Throttlewatch was working. I am also running it in a first gen Sonata, so my airflow in the case was actually probably worse than yours since I don't have the duct that the Sonata II has. I did install the second case fan behind the hard drives to improve airflow.

Even if Intel makes the new chips s775, they will probably require a whole new chipset. I'm still kind of annoyed that I can't add a P-D to my 915 board. Of course I paid $200 for the processor, board and Windows XP Pro, so I can't complain too much about getting screwed. I would bitch about it had I paid full retail for the kit, though.

 

[stevty2889]

The strange thing is that my 3.2 ES prescott ran at 3.6ghz on the same motherboard, and it's temps stayed around 64-65c under load, but the 3.4 throttled and ran hot even underclocked to 3.2ghz.