Will you be getting one of Intel's new line of CORE processors?

[platinumike]

Prices for The new line (taken from this site)

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz 4MBcahe $999
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz 4MBcache $530
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz 4MBcache $316
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz 2MBcache $224
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz 2MBcache $183

The benchmarks showed that the E6600 is still better than AMD's absolute best, and runs at half the price. I think I'll be picking one up if the memory to go along with it, aint so expensive.

 

[Megatomic]

When my X2 4800+ @ 2.5GHz feels slow I'll upgrade. Current system linked in sig.

 

[xanis]

I'll be building a new rig next year around November and it will be on somewhat of a budget, so I'll be waiting for price cuts on the A64 X2 or maybe even treat myself to a nice dual-core Opty if I have enough cash .

 

[mobobuff]

I'll be building a new machine here come winter, in time for the release of Unreal Tournament 2007. I'm letting an old friend live with me right now and he ruined my last computer (P4 2.8 + 9800 Pro + 1GB) by downloading a bunch of viruses and spyware and 30 different bloatware programs and then trying to run 4 different copy processes at the same time on 3 different hard drives. *pop*

I'm looking at AMD, but in a few months Intel might have something tasty. It's hard because I rip and encode a lot of large videos, which Intel is primarily dominant with -- but I'm also crazy about First Person Shooters and I'm a Frames-Per-Second junkie, which AMD usually does well with.

And I'm still on the fence with ATI/Nvidia. Oy!

 

[route66]

I have some gift certificates to Dell, so I'm waiting for Core 2 to go on their laptops and then I'll pick up some notebook with it.

 

[Baked]

Yes, E6600 and not just 'cause Anand got the special edition E6600 from Intel that allowed him to OC to 4GHz. I need it for heavy video editing next semester. This will be my 1st system overhaul in 4 years.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'd be buying 2 of the 35 watt AMD X2 3800+, except that 2 is all they've been able to make so far.

Since they're paper-launch vapor, I'll probably be building or buying a couple of systems with 6300's for fast, quiet systems instead.

 

[platinumike]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
I'll be building a new machine here come winter, in time for the release of Unreal Tournament 2007. I'm letting an old friend live with me right now and he ruined my last computer (P4 2.8 + 9800 Pro + 1GB) by downloading a bunch of viruses and spyware and 30 different bloatware programs and then trying to run 4 different copy processes at the same time on 3 different hard drives. *pop*

I'm looking at AMD, but in a few months Intel might have something tasty. It's hard because I rip and encode a lot of large videos, which Intel is primarily dominant with -- but I'm also crazy about First Person Shooters and I'm a Frames-Per-Second junkie, which AMD usually does well with.

And I'm still on the fence with ATI/Nvidia. Oy!

have you seen the benchmarks for the article this site just did? Intel kicked the crap outa amd on all benchmarks. I think the closest amd came was on HL2 ep1. Where the fastest amd proc. , the fx 5000 was still being outperformed by Intel's best, by something like 17% or so. In other benchmarks like Rise of Nations the Intel top dog had a 35% performance increase or so over AMD's best. I've been using AMD for years now, thinking of getting back to Intel.

 

[OSX]

E6400, the smaller cache doesn't seem to have much of an effect and it's a hundred dollars cheaper. I'm planning on upgrading when the quad-cores come out.

 

[imported_Tick]

Where is the woodcrest option?

 

[Eeezee]

I might get a dual core AMD if there's a price drop.

 

[MustangSVT]

ill wait for core Trio.

or amd x4!!!

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: Baked
Yes, E6600 and not just 'cause Anand got the special edition E6600 from Intel that allowed him to OC to 4GHz. I need it for heavy video editing next semester. This will be my 1st system overhaul in 4 years.

Yep, I am gonna go with an E6600 in a couple months after motherboards for it are in better supply. I too am looking forward to a nice system overhaul... still running my old Northy 3.06 and an AGP videocard.

 

[athfbum]

I'll be getting an E6300 with a Gigabyte P965 mobo, nVidia 7600 GT, and 1GB of G.Skill DDR2 667 RAM

 

[lopri]

I'm thinking of E6700 for OC'ing fun.

 

[dev0lution]

I'm aiming for the E6600 and am putting a 3200 and 3800 on ebay as I type to offset some of the cost of the board/memory/processor upgrade

 

[n7]

E6600 when i can find some decent mobos to choose from.

Sadly, i think that will be a long time.

 

[SergeC]

If I had the cash to throw around, I'd be all over a C2Duo.....but since I don't, and I'm running a single-core s939, I'm looking forward to the price drops.

 

[CP5670]

E6600 although probably not for at least a few months, maybe around the end of the year. The performance boost in emulators and numerical calculation programs should be quite dramatic, but I also want to see some good games released before upgrading anything further.

 

[LW07]

I think I'll be getting an E6600 around christmas. The X2 4600+ S939 for $300 is tempting, though, but in the end I think I'll go for a new Mobo, new Ram, and the E6600. Either that or wait until march and have enough cash for that, plus an R600 card, since they'll support DX9, from what I've read, provided that they give a good enough performance boost from my X1900XT to warrant that.

 

[Icepick]

An upgrade to a E6300 will be nice. Unfortunately, I'll have to overhaul all of the core parts of my current system which still gives me plenty of power. It won't be until November-December at the earliest so that some rev 2 motherboards will be out with mature BIOS. My wish list is: E6300, decent mobo with Firewire ($80-$110), 2GB value RAM, PCIE vid card (probably 7900GT), ~ 450W power supply, nice case. What I really want is dual core and 2GB RAM.

Current rig:
socket 939 3500+ @ 3800+ (2.4GHz) | 1GB OCZ EL 2-3-2-6 | MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum | BFG 6800GT (AGP) | NEC DVD RW | Creative X-FI | Antec 480W | Samsung 160GB hard drive

Edit: On second thought, I'll probably just wait until the next revision of vid cards come out (X2800XT or 8800GT). Then get either E6300 or E6600.

 

[stevty2889]

Gonna go with the E6600 myself, wait for more overclocking reviews so I can pick out a good overclocking board.

 

[Ranulf]

Tempted to go with a E6600 as I'll be building a whole new system but I hate being an early adopter so I'll probably lean towards AM2 when/if the price cuts hit.

 

[Corporate Thug]

still a toss up between priced dropped x2 3800 and a E6400

 

[ProviaFan]

The Athlon 64 X2 4400+ with 4GB of RAM that I purchased in late spring of last year is still working just great, so I don't have any reason to want an upgrade. The only thing that really taxes my system is processing 10MP raw files from my digital camera; since this currently works well enough on the X2, I probably won't upgrade until I get a new camera that makes larger raw files - that could be a couple of years yet, at which point I'm going to want dual quad core or something fantastic like that.