[darkninja67]

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Originally Posted by Cousin Patty /img/forum/go_quote.gif yesterday the Q6600 was $299 at newegg...this morning its $375... what happened?

They got the G0 steppings in.

 

[Cousin Patty]

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Originally Posted by darkninja67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif They got the G0 steppings in.

and that does what again?

 

[darkninja67]

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Originally Posted by Cousin Patty /img/forum/go_quote.gif and that does what again?

I was kidding. I believe the new stepping run a bit cooler which can enable a higher overclock.

 

[Cousin Patty]

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Originally Posted by darkninja67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I was kidding. I believe the new stepping run a bit cooler which can enable a higher overclock.

ohh ok.

personally i dont see a point in going quad core right now unless you do a ton of multitasking/encoding. there arent any games out right now besides sup com that will make any good use of it. once crysis and UT3 come out, THEN i'd seriously consider it. by that time, quads should be pretty damn cheap indeed. for now, my OC'ed e6600 is just fine.

 

[darkninja67]

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Originally Posted by Cousin Patty /img/forum/go_quote.gif ohh ok. personally i dont see a point in going quad core right now unless you do a ton of multitasking/encoding. there arent any games out right now besides sup com that will make any good use of it. once crysis and UT3 come out, THEN i'd seriously consider it. by that time, quads should be pretty damn cheap indeed. for now, my OC'ed e6600 is just fine.

Yeah I am subscribing to that school of thought myself. Plus I do not have the funds to throw at a new cpu. If anything I would get an E6750 and put the hammer to it.

 

[chesebert]

The good news is the money I saved from Q6600 v E6600 enabled me to buy the latest Grover S White, its sweet if you care to know

 

[darkninja67]

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Originally Posted by chesebert /img/forum/go_quote.gif The good news is the money I saved from Q6600 v E6600 enabled me to buy the latest Grover S White, its sweet if you care to know

Please do not taint my thread with talk of audio goodness.

 

[meat01]

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yesterday the Q6600 was $299 at newegg...this morning its $375... what happened?

Supply and Demand maybe

 

[LowPhreak]

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Originally Posted by darkninja67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif If anything I would get an E6750 and put the hammer to it.

I've got a XP 2400+ sitting in the other room that you can put the hammer to. Literally!

 

[rbui]

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Originally Posted by meat01 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Quote: yesterday the Q6600 was $299 at newegg...this morning its $375... what happened? Supply and Demand maybe

or price-gouging perhaps

you can still grab a Q6600 from other retailers for less than $310 shipped, and even a near-guaranteed G0 Q6600 from ncix/ncixus, so why go newegg? I've always been a dedicated newegg customer, partly due to their excellent shipping/order processing, but I'm not so sure anymore

 

[darkninja67]

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Originally Posted by LowPhreak /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've got a XP 2400+ sitting in the other room that you can put the hammer to. Literally!

Funny as I have an AMD 2400+ Barton in my other room.

 

[LowPhreak]

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Originally Posted by rbui /img/forum/go_quote.gif or price-gouging perhaps you can still grab a Q6600 from other retailers for less than $310 shipped, and even a near-guaranteed G0 Q6600 from ncix/ncixus, so why go newegg? I've always been a dedicated newegg customer, partly due to their excellent shipping/order processing, but I'm not so sure anymore

Since newegg went IPO they're not the same. Well, they did not always have the lowest price, but now just another buncha corporate greed-mongers.

 

[darkninja67]

So the reports are coming in that the Q6600 is a wicked overclocker and it runs cool. The E6750 seems to be doing pretty good too.

 

[rbui]

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Originally Posted by darkninja67 /img/forum/go_quote.gif So the reports are coming in that the Q6600 is a wicked overclocker and it runs cool.

wicked indeed, the "good" batches of G0 stepping Q6600s overclock to 3.6GHz stable, on AIR

 

[DoubleEs]

These Quads are very nice, I've OC'd mine to 3.0 and it's been running Prime for 26 hrs now, rock solid. I have done nothing in the bios except increasing FSB to 335, everything else on auto

CoreTemp shows reading in the region of mid 60s to high 60s, this is on air