What exactly will happen on July 22nd?

[Hauk]

Looking to get a Q6600 ASAP after the price cut. What's going to happen, will the Egg and other vendors cut prices that day, do they watch the market, or do they do it when they receive inventory that was discounted by Intel?

 

[swtethan]

they'll probably cut the prices the day before

 

[RussianSensation]

It's most likely Q6600 will be priced slightly above $266 or be out of stock as short-term demand for this item might go through the roof

 

[Hauk]

Finger on the trigger...

 

[bfdd]

Both of my e6600's(if the one that i think is messed up isn't) will go up for sale and I'll be buying a q6600 =)

 

[n7]

On the 22nd, Intel will announce they've canceled plans for price cuts, stating more than adequate sales w/o them.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: n7
On the 22nd, Intel will announce they've canceled plans for price cuts, stating more than adequate sales w/o them.

LOL but delay is certainly a possibility. But folks who're longing for quad-cores just for the sake of them (i.e. no multi-tasking, encoding, or virtual PC, etc.) could be disappointed. E6600 @3.60GHz feels a lot snappier than Q6600 @3.20GHz for most of the task (for me). I'm only keeping the Q6600 for Virtualization. (which in itself is still immature as far as hardware acceleration is concerned) Extra 20~30C of temps are an icing on the cake.

For the determined, I'd suggest to make a purchase as soon as the price drops. As the demand goes up, Intel will really be binning the chips. If your workload doesn't guarantee the need of a quad, waiting till Penryn hits isn't a terrible idea, IMO.

 

[aka1nas]

Do we have anything concrete about when Penryn will be available yet? I'm trying to decide if I should pick up a cheap C2D now and and grab a Yorkdale early next year or just hold out until Penryn Quads are released.

 

[bfdd]

Originally posted by: lopri

Originally posted by: n7
On the 22nd, Intel will announce they've canceled plans for price cuts, stating more than adequate sales w/o them.

LOL but delay is certainly a possibility. But folks who're longing for quad-cores just for the sake of them (i.e. no multi-tasking, encoding, or virtual PC, etc.) could be disappointed. E6600 @3.60GHz feels a lot snappier than Q6600 @3.20GHz for most of the task (for me). I'm only keeping the Q6600 for Virtualization. (which in itself is still immature as far as hardware acceleration is concerned) Extra 20~30C of temps are an icing on the cake.

For the determined, I'd suggest to make a purchase as soon as the price drops. As the demand goes up, Intel will really be binning the chips. If your workload doesn't guarantee the need of a quad, waiting till Penryn hits isn't a terrible idea, IMO.

I currently like re-encoding movies while playing games =) The E6600 can do it if I set their affinity to different cores. Imagine what I could do with 4 cores!

 

[mnikkel55]

How far will the E6600 & E6700 prices drop?

 

[Skott]

Hard to say how low the E6600/E6700 prices drop. The E6600 is to be discontinued so demand/supply will determine it. The E6600 is a really good chip so people may snap them up while they can. It'll also depend on how good of a chip its replacement is too.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Skott
The E6600 is a really good chip so people may snap them up while they can. It'll also depend on how good of a chip its replacement is too.

The replacement chips will be fine, BUT... will be at a higher initial FSB thus making it that much more difficult to overclock.

 

[coldpower27]

Originally posted by: Skott
Hard to say how low the E6600/E6700 prices drop. The E6600 is to be discontinued so demand/supply will determine it. The E6600 is a really good chip so people may snap them up while they can. It'll also depend on how good of a chip its replacement is too.

They aren't exactly discontinued perse just receiving no price drops so for people who aren't overclocking the new 1333FSB chips are the better deal.

You can still snap up the $224 E6600 but with the Q6600 at $266 or the E6750 at $183 you might want to spend your money elsewhere.