Upgrade Question. Would Like YOUR opinion

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m21s

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Here's the situation.

My friend bought a X6800 last year and spent $1000.00 on it.
He runs it OC at 3.6 on a water cooling set-up.

I told him while his processor has "some" value in it to upgrade it to the Q6600 or Q6700 once the price falls in July.

With this upgrade he could sell his X6800 (ebay right now there selling for $500.00) Buy a Q6600 for $266.00 and pocket some money.

Now If he waits a year or so to upgrade his X6800 processor is going to be worth nothing and he will lose out.

He does game and ocational video encode and the usual multi-task.

Games on a 37" 1920x1080 monitor and runs all the Eye-candy when He can.
So Being CPU limited wont happen because of his resolution and cranking up the settings.

He's not going to get 3.6 on the quad I told him, but with his water setup 3.0-3.2 should be fairly easy.

Now to me this is a no brainer upgrade. And in the process he will put a little money back in his pocket before they stop selling the X6800 this year and his processor sells for beans. (I know I have a FX-55 that I couldn't sell for a glass of water right now)

He will not be losing any performance in his gaming (an OC Quad is going to be just fine at his rez)

And he gains a jump in performance in all other multi tasks.

What would YOU recommend him doing in his situation.
(Remember he can dump the $1000.00 chip he has now and still make out ok with a excellent upgrade for a lot less money!)

 
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If he's determined to sell the processor, I would do it now provided he has a backup system he can use for awhile, while he waits for the next price drop on July 22nd. I'm waiting for the q6600 to sell for $266. I would put a minimum price on ebay for whatever he is willing to accept for it. You can do it in private without telling the bidders. Sometimes they even have special deals for the seller, such as 20 cent days.
 
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MarcVenice

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pray some1 is dumb enough to buy it for 500$ when qauds are gonna cost 266$ in 2 months ...
 
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m21s

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The only reason I brought this up to him was because if he decides to upgrade to a Quad.
He should do it in July when the price drops.

If he waits to do it, He is going to have a $1000.00 processor sitting in his closet by the end of the year that he wont sell for what he can get in July.
 
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m21s

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Originally posted by: MarcVenice
pray some1 is dumb enough to buy it for 500$ when qauds are gonna cost 266$ in 2 months ...
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You've never sold anything Ebay have you :)
 
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The-Noid

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X6800 will be the only unlocked multiplier Dual Core C2D you will see. There is still some money in it for quite sometime, until 45nm quads/duals are out.
 
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MarcVenice

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Nope, but it's more like my mind can't wrap itself around how stupid some people can be ^^ But yeah I would get rid of that cpu, throw in a cheap e4300 for now, and go qaud come end of july.
 
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The-Noid

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the price cuts are not on June 22nd. The X6800 isn't going to lose anymore value than it has. There are always stupid people. I just sold a 965XE for 480$.

There is a point at which cpu's don't lose value quite as fast as you would expect. X6800 is still in stock but not produced. If you want an unlocked multiplier you will have the X6800 and QX6700, the QX6800 will come out of OEM status, but not for a bit.
 
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The-Noid

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My fault. July rather, trying to write up a bunch of stuff at once.

Will be August 17th as was originally announced. HKEPC has been wrong many times in the past.

Buy an XE edition is like buying a new car in that it depreciates like mad to begin with, but it also plateaus at a certain point and stays there for quite some time. It has been this way throughout history and will continue to be this way.
 
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i agree with you op; he should sell while it's still worth something. he'll probably upgrade to quad eventually anyway.
 
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m21s

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Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
i agree with you op; he should sell while it's still worth something. he'll probably upgrade to quad eventually anyway.
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Ya he would upgrade once games like Alan Wake hit and so on that are going to use Quad Cores.

Why not be ready now and save some money in the process.

To me this is more about money than performance.
-Wouldn't you rather get what you can now for a $1000.00 processor and drop in a $266.00 one with twice the cores. (that will OC within a couple hundred Mhz of what he's at now).

No one is going to argue the fact that a Quad core is a bad move.
There being used now in games like Supreme Commander!
 
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The-Noid

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I think he should sell, just time is not "of the essence" completely.

What kind of board does he have?

Hopefully not a 680i otherwise he will have major overclocking troubles.
 
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m21s

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Here's some gaming performance.
Because I know the person I'm speaking about would like to see it ;)

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/intel_core_quad_q6600_preview/page6.asp

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/intel_core_quad_q6600_preview/page9.asp

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/intel_core_quad_q6600_preview/page8.asp


Now of coarse excluding the 800x600 numbers (who the hell games at that!)

You can see you are going to lose no performance in running a Quad at 2.4 compared to a Dual at 2.93.
 
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