Wait next year for Intel 45nm or upgrade now?

[pood]

I don't necessarily have to upgrade now, but would like to so I can play Crysis and the new dx10 games.


Thinking about waiting for one of the new cheaper 45nm chips or I can upgrade this month and get something like the Intel Q6600.

What do you guys think, I was thinking to upgrade next month when the 45nm is out, but if it's not worth the wait, I'd upgrade now

 

[Denithor]

Build the rest of your system to handle a Penryn but buy an e2160 or e2180 and overclock it to ~3GHz. Use that for about 2-3 months until the Penryns are launched and the pricing settles down, then pick up an e8200/e8400 and resell the e2160/e2180.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

The killer deal will be 45nm value quads sporting 800 or 1066 bus and 9x multi for less than $200!

 

[bryanW1995]

when are those coming out? they never even came out with an 800 fsb c2d, why would they do it with penryn?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

u can get the gigabyte ds3p motherboard, to my understanding, they support 45nm and penryn

 

[pood]

That was what I was planning to do, get the new gigabyte ds3p.

I'm gonna go all out and get another 8800gts (already bought one couple month ago) and watercooling, never really overclocked before, but planning to this time.


I was reading the cheaper Intel 45nm are coming out January.

 

[ric1287]

what board would support the new chips? how about the abit ip35 pro

 

[Blain]

The best punch from the Penryn will be encoding.
For gaming don't bother waiting, get what you want now.

 

[Cookie Monster]

I thought all P35/X38 boards support the upcoming 45nm core 2 via BIOs update or by other means.

 

[amenx]

Not much difference in performance between the current C2Ds/C2Qs and the upcoming Penryns, so may as well get something now and do a real upgrade 10-12 months later when Nehalem is out.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
when are those coming out? they never even came out with an 800 fsb c2d, why would they do it with penryn?

E21x0 and E4xx0 are C2D with less cache. They run at 200MHz FSB with 8x or higher multi.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
when are those coming out? they never even came out with an 800 fsb c2d, why would they do it with penryn?

What do you think Allendale's are? E4xxx's and E2xxx's both have 800MHz FSB.