P4 3.06 GHz.........

[Metallica God]

since that is already available , at least on intel website, i am pretty sure that the rest of the slower processors are going to fall in price, just wondering which one is the best deal to get...

[looktall]

there's already been a price drop for the slower processors. the next one will be in feb.

i couldn't really say what the best deal is as pretty much all P4's are well out of my price range. :(

[FIZZ3]

They're asking about 430$ for a 2.66Ghz here... ridiculous as it's only 290$ in the USA. Looks like companies here have suddenly decided they can get away with 30%+ extra mark up. ffs.

[Metallica God]

Originally posted by looktall
there's already been a price drop for the slower processors. the next one will be in feb.

i couldn't really say what the best deal is as pretty much all P4's are well out of my price range. :(


how do you know that the next price drop will be in january, and is that only on processors or on everything including videocards and such?

[JaY_III]

Originally posted by Metallica God
how do you know that the next price drop will be in january, and is that only on processors or on everything including videocards and such?

intel drops prices at the same time each year....
plus they do say/hint when the price drops come...
but that is only for intel...

as for the rest, it really depends on how the rest compition is doing and if they leapfrog ahead of the other companys tech or not...

as for what CPU looks the best, the 2.4Ghz P4 looks pretty good to me, would be my pick (i think) if i had to buy today

[looktall]

Originally posted by Metallica God



how do you know that the next price drop will be in january

feb, not january. :D

and it will be for P4 chips ranging from 2.2 up to 3.06ghz and xeon's from 2.2 up to 2.66ghz.
there's also be a drop in january for the P4-M chips. ranging from 1.8 up to 2.2ghz.

i know this because i read the pricing roadmap. :D

[Metallica God]

how much will the price of radeon 9700 drop once geforce fx comes out and is it supposed to be better than radeon 9700?

[JaY_III]

ATI will havea nother card out by the time the Geforce FX is around in masses, the R350 and RV350 core
R350 will be using DDR-II aswell

we cant tell you how much of a price drop as we dont know for sure, same as why we cant say what video card will be better.
If you dont NEED a video card now, wait till the end of Feb-march, as alot more details on the new video cards will emerge