Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600

[indyjones]

i have the q6700 kentfield, its extremely fast, especially when rendering movies, i have only one program that uses all four cores, but hardly any applications outside of the media industry use all four cores.

personally for home use i would just stick with the dual cores for now.

and lordofla, the q6700 has been available for 6 months or so now.

I did think that orgionally, hence started this thread it all depends on how much games will use multi-threading I guess. Still with the quad core you get a free copy of Supream commander ! (shame I already have it)

 

[LordOfLA]

Q6700 has only been available in the UK recently. Previously it was only the QX6700.

 

[lancer]

ahhh ok.

 

[Sazar]

Q6600 is down to 299 (or less) in many places.

Fyi.

:smoker:

 

[indyjones]

Thanks, I am waiting for the price drops which should happen very shortly......

 

[Sazar]

Thanks, I am waiting for the price drops which should happen very shortly......

That IS the price with the price drops :smoker:

 

[mfarley]

Yep, from slickdeals:

• Mwave - $273 + Shipping
• Clubit - $280 + Free Shipping
• ZipZoomFly - $298 + Free Shipping
• Lagoom - $299 + Free Shipping
• Newegg - $300 + Free Shipping
• eWiz - $340 + Shipping

 

[indyjones]

nice, just need it to hit all the Uk stores now. Cheers guys!

 

[Sazar]

Buy american. It's probably cheaper 😉

 

[Electronic Punk]

The OCuk price does actually reflect the price drop apparently, but just wait and see I guess.

 

[lancer]

thank god the q6700 hasn't dropped in price at all i bought it for i think $1000 four months ago or so, its $970 now, sorry, just didn't want to think i could've waited for a better deal, but wierdly enough, when this processor first came on the market 4 or 5 months ago, it was priced at $1500, i waited 3 weeks and it dropped $500.