Is April the month for CPU price cuts ?

[Drift3r]

I am going to be building a new system soon and I will get either a Intel or AMD cpu. I just want to know how much both competitors are going to cut and when they are going to cut prices to make my choice.

 

[stevty2889]

April 22nd is when the Intel price cuts are supposed to happen.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=2027470&enterthread=y

 

[harpoon84]

AMD's cuts have already taken place, Intel will follow in 2 weeks as stevty2889 said.

You may find this article helpful in making your final decision: http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dualcore-roundup.html

Cheers.

 

[Drift3r]

What would be a better deal ? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 vs Core 2 Duo E6600 in pricing and performance?

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: Drift3r
What would be a better deal ? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 vs Core 2 Duo E6600 in pricing and performance?

According to the article that I linked, the E6600 is superior in all areas - performance, price, power consumption and overclocking.

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: harpoon84

Originally posted by: Drift3r
What would be a better deal ? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 vs Core 2 Duo E6600 in pricing and performance?

According to the article that I linked, the E6600 is superior in all areas - performance, price, power consumption and overclocking.

The article in the one area I care the most "gaming" says the AMD 6000 edges out the E6600.

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: Drift3r

Originally posted by: harpoon84

Originally posted by: Drift3r
What would be a better deal ? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 vs Core 2 Duo E6600 in pricing and performance?

According to the article that I linked, the E6600 is superior in all areas - performance, price, power consumption and overclocking.

The article in the one area I care the most "gaming" says the AMD 6000 edges out the E6600.

Are we looking at the same article?

http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dualcore-roundup_4.html are the gaming benchmarks

At stock speeds, it's basically a tie in gaming, with the E6600 winning 4/8 tests and the X2 6000+ taking out the other 4/8.

Of course once overclocking is taken into account, C2D is streets ahead. Even a lowly E4300 @ 3.2GHz will easily beat an X2 @ 3.2GHz, let alone the 4MB L2 E6600 @ 3.5GHz.

Now, your sig indicates you are an overclocker, so I don't see how an X2 6000+ is in any way superior to the E6600? It consumes twice as much power (125W vs 65W), costs slightly more, and has next to no overclocking headroom.

Looking at Anandtech's own review, http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2933&p=8 , the E6600 beats the X2 6000+ in 3/4 games, albeit by very slight margins. Again, this is at stock speeds. Overclocked, nothing from AMD can come remotely close to C2D at this point.

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: harpoon84

Originally posted by: Drift3r

Originally posted by: harpoon84

Originally posted by: Drift3r
What would be a better deal ? AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 vs Core 2 Duo E6600 in pricing and performance?

According to the article that I linked, the E6600 is superior in all areas - performance, price, power consumption and overclocking.

The article in the one area I care the most "gaming" says the AMD 6000 edges out the E6600.

Are we looking at the same article?

http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dualcore-roundup_4.html are the gaming benchmarks

At stock speeds, it's basically a tie in gaming, with the E6600 winning 4/8 tests and the X2 6000+ taking out the other 4/8.

Of course once overclocking is taken into account, C2D is streets ahead. Even a lowly E4300 @ 3.2GHz will easily beat an X2 @ 3.2GHz, let alone the 4MB L2 E6600 @ 3.5GHz.

Now, your sig indicates you are an overclocker, so I don't see how an X2 6000+ is in any way superior to the E6600? It consumes twice as much power (125W vs 65W), costs slightly more, and has next to no overclocking headroom.

Looking at Anandtech's own review, http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2933&p=8 , the E6600 beats the X2 6000+ in 3/4 games, albeit by very slight margins. Again, this is at stock speeds. Overclocked, nothing from AMD can come remotely close to C2D at this point.

Yes you're right.

Sorry I haven't updated my sig in a long time. I gave up over clocking a while back ago and so I was looking at base line stock performance not over clocking capability and performance. I'll probably pick a C2D but here is a second question what board would be match up for a C2D and provide a good performance? I''ll be sticking a Nvidia ( Not doing SLI ) card into this thing so might that effect my choices? What are the high end Nvidia and Intel chipsets for C2D's?