Reckon it'll be worth changing from a e6400 to q6600 after the price cuts?
Was planning on building a HTPC in the summer anyway, so the e6400 wouldn't go bye-bye.
I do.
If you're a gamer.
The quad cores don't make much difference now, but they are going to be used increasingly more. Put something like "Alan Wake" on a quad core and yer laffin, as they say. Currently though, even dual cores aren't used to their full potential, so theres no hurry.
I'm looking to build while Google are still offering me a £100 discount on my build so I'm going to have suck up the price difference the next month.
Oh well.
Blimey with frequent price cuts there never seems a right time to buy. I was just playing around a dual quad core xenon at work and boy did I get the urge to get me 1 of these and with prices coming down at this rate might well have to
slightly off topic but i read somewhere that it only costs intel about $30 - $40 a chip. it was a longtime ago and the old memory isn't up to scratch.
The cost is not pure manufacturing, but research & development, alongside quality control and other production costs. It may cost them $30-40 to produce the chip, but they make nothing on faulty ones, nothing on those returned for one reason or another, and the continued pressure for advancement will cost them a lot in r&d.
Obviously there is a point where they break even, and then start making supernormal profit, but until then, they are simply covering costs, and making enough profit to ensure they stay in the market (economists call it normal profit, equal to that of their second best use)
interesting stuff! jeez some hefty cuts there
A Q6600 is currently at the $530 pricepoint (for quantities of 1000). It is available here in the UK for around £340 at the moment. When the price drops to $266 in July I would expect to pay £170. Of course you always have to accept the laws of supply and demand and the fact that prices are set with regard to what people are willing to pay.
This H2 price drop has been on the Intel roadmap for ages but it has suprised me just how soon in H2 it will be implemented. Is it possible that Intel have got wind of the Phenoms' capabilities and are running scared or is it an attempt to put that last nail in the AMD coffin?. I'm a 'best bang for your buck' shopper so my long awaited video editting rig will be based on a Q6600 and Bearlake mobo. Sony Vegas 7 can utilise 4 cores and further down the track I can pop in a Penryn to stave off obsolescence for a few more months.
I think it will be very hard for AMD fanboys to keep their colours nailed to the mast this summer.
Apparently, "Do whatever you like" should NOT be considered authorisation to build my uber rig!
I guess retailers will phase them through gradually. People complain like hell when they buy a cpu & £ drops following week. Must be pretty similar igf your a retailer with several hundred cpus in stock & a 33% £ comes, so value of your stock is down 33%. Retailers will try and recoup some of that loss i guess.
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