Conroe release date????

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08-07-2006, 02:58 PM
greektony

Conroe release date????

Hi all, i am hoping to put together a new system soon and was planinng on a s939 system but now i have read that conroe will be out soon. The only problem is that i keep reading conflicting reports on google. Some places list it as appearing ins september/october whilst others have it being released towards the end of july. Does anyone know an exact release date for conroe in the UK??? Also are prices going to be fairly competitive? or should i just get a s939 system and then get a conroe m'board and cpu in 6 months time? I was looking to spend around £500 - £600 on the s939 (excluding monitor) so would a conroe gaming system be around this price? (i.e. 1 or more gigs of ram, 7900gt etc - if i go the s939 route was going to go for a 3700+)

Cheers
08-07-2006, 03:08 PM
aidanjt

24th July for the first shipments, expect waiting if you leave pre-ordering too long.
08-07-2006, 03:09 PM
Metroid

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Originally Posted by greektony

Hi all, i am hoping to put together a new system soon and was planinng on a s939 system but now i have read that conroe will be out soon. The only problem is that i keep reading conflicting reports on google. Some places list it as appearing ins september/october whilst others have it being released towards the end of june. Does anyone know an exact release date for conroe in the UK??? Also are prices going to be fairly competitive? or should i just get a s939 system and then get a conroe m'board and cpu in 6 months time? I was looking to spend around £500 - £600 on the s939 (excluding monitor) so would a conroe gaming system be around this price? (i.e. 1 or more gigs of ram, 7900gt etc - if i go the s939 route was going to go for a 3700+)

Cheers

The Conroe launch date will be July 24 but some retails will get before that date. I recommend you to wait to at least until beggining of August. We wil have enough Motherboards and the price around 150£ for enthusiastic people and we will be able to choose and conroe will be around if we speak about entry series that outperforms even a FX-60 for mere 180£ for a conroe 6400 not bad at all :)

The best think is forget about AMD with their 90 nm and get a new 65 nm :)

Wait for www.scan.co.uk for the best price it should be around 220£ so it is 30£ less than if you pre-order in others shops.
08-07-2006, 03:22 PM
aidanjt

The E6600 is the sweetspot at £250. It's the mid-range with 4mb of cache, makes a massive difference in performance.
08-07-2006, 04:18 PM
atmadden

Seems release date has now been brought forward to July 14:)
08-07-2006, 05:04 PM
Metroid

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Originally Posted by atmadden

Seems release date has now been brought forward to July 14:)

I do not believe that, 14 is too early.

I want to get the system working with the 590 Intel Edition board.:)
08-07-2006, 05:06 PM
aidanjt

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Originally Posted by atmadden

Seems release date has now been brought forward to July 14:)

Do you have anything to substantiate that?.. most news sites and retailers are showing the 24th as the release date.
08-07-2006, 06:21 PM
alcor

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32849

However i still find that it is not entirely clear
08-07-2006, 06:40 PM
aidanjt

I'd be weiry of what theinquirer 'reports', especially when they talk about Intel.
08-07-2006, 06:45 PM
alcor

We will know for sure in the next 2 - 3 weeks anyway.

How important do you reakon its going to be to pre order?

Or is waiting for Scan going to be a better bet?
08-07-2006, 07:37 PM
aidanjt

I'd say it's very important to pre-order for places that allow for pre-orders.. Scan will get them sooner or later, but these chips are in red hot demand and they aren't even on the market yet.
08-07-2006, 08:01 PM
Tin Ribs

I think Intel are onto a winner with Conroe. Ive heard mention that Intel are hoarding stock so that it can meet demand but it is probably not true. Still only time will tell
08-07-2006, 08:13 PM
Whiternoise

HAHAHA 24th July eh? i could get one as a birthday present :P but i don't have a system that's compatible :(
08-07-2006, 08:51 PM
BUFF

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tin Ribs

I think Intel are onto a winner with Conroe.

Intel apparently is doing a new stepping to fix a few things & the chipsets look to have RAID problems ...
Plus whilst it's good at somethings it's not so clever at others apparently (like most CPUs).

I think that the usual axim not to be a first revision user (beta tester :p) applies ...
08-07-2006, 10:13 PM
aidanjt

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Originally Posted by BUFF

Intel apparently is doing a new stepping to fix a few things & the chipsets look to have RAID problems ...
Plus whilst it's good at somethings it's not so clever at others apparently (like most CPUs).

I think that the usual axim not to be a first revision user (beta tester :p) applies ...

Matrix RAID (and practically all onboard RAID) is just an overglorified SATA controller with a BIOS slapped on it, it's a bit hard to botch RAID circuts that aren't even there.

But yea, I'm gonna leave a new system build until about May, next year when all the little kinks have been ironed out.
08-07-2006, 10:28 PM
BUFF

Quote:

Originally Posted by aidanjt

Matrix RAID (and practically all onboard RAID) is just an overglorified SATA controller with a BIOS slapped on it, it's a bit hard to botch RAID circuts that aren't even there.

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32818

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32842
08-07-2006, 10:48 PM
aidanjt

The problem isn't the with the CPU or the chipset, the problem is the software, all onboard RAID controllers use the CPU to handle RAID operations, this is as much as a problem for AMD motherboards in RAID5 as is for Intel boards regardless of what theinquirer FUD says.
08-07-2006, 11:16 PM
BUFF

"the reason was that there were severe problems when Woodcrest was paired with a 1E RAID field when using IBM ServeRAID controllers."
doesn't sound like they were using onboard RAID there though does it?
08-07-2006, 11:23 PM
aidanjt

like I said, I'd be weiry about anything theinquirer 'reports', especially when they're talking about Intel.
09-07-2006, 03:27 PM
Metroid

Quote:

Originally Posted by aidanjt

like I said, I'd be weiry about anything theinquirer 'reports', especially when they're talking about Intel.

It is just a small fix to be done, it is very difficult to any software or hardware that comes perfect in the version 1. Therefore we can expect more form Intel.
10-07-2006, 03:58 PM
DanceswithUnix

Quote:

Originally Posted by aidanjt

like I said, I'd be weiry about anything theinquirer 'reports', especially when they're talking about Intel.

Oh come now you make it sound like they hate Intel. Lets face it, they get right up the nose of all the silicon vendors :)
10-07-2006, 05:23 PM
aidanjt

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix

Oh come now you make it sound like they hate Intel. Lets face it, they get right up the nose of all the silicon vendors :)

Thus my point, they just take particular pride in talking utter garbage about Intel.
11-07-2006, 10:48 AM
Consumption

Apparantly some US stores have them in stock but can't ship until the 14th so here's hoping...