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ares350

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Im kinda pulling my hair out with my PC these days, compounded by my roomates shiny new conroe duo that I designed and built for him.

but on one hand, I know the conroe duos are awesome, I know first hand what they can do. but at the same time, I know that theyve been out for a few months now, prices have not dropped at all, and eventually quadcores will come.

so, do we have any word on the native quadcore CPUs? you know, quad cores that dont bottleneck at the bus and arent 1000$? I just need a ballpark so I can stop beating myself up over the agonizing wait.

Id just build a duo machine and upgrade later, but well. money isnt quite water yet.
 
No native quadcores out yet but the Xeon 53xx series is out already. I've seen the cheapest one (1.6Ghz quadcore LGA771) for $360 at a local computer store.
 
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how does the xeon differ from the kentsfield then? being that kentsfield is 1000$; 300 for a xeon seems odd that its had no press.
 
ares350 said:
how does the xeon differ from the kentsfield then? being that kentsfield is 1000$; 300 for a xeon seems odd that its had no press.

Agreed. If you can post a link to that price, I'd jump on the Clovertown bandwagon in an instant. From what I've heard, though, the low end should be $600-ish.
 
Im confused, if this exists, why does anyone buy an E6600 for the same price?

clock speed appears slow, is that the notable difference? 4 cores but they dont perform as well?
 
ares350 said:
Im confused, if this exists, why does anyone buy an E6600 for the same price?

clock speed appears slow, is that the notable difference? 4 cores but they dont perform as well?

It looks like socket 771 is aimed at dual-processor servers.
So for a start, you'll need two of them.
Then the motherboards are pricey.
...
 
ares350 said:
Im confused, if this exists, why does anyone buy an E6600 for the same price?

clock speed appears slow, is that the notable difference? 4 cores but they dont perform as well?
Heh, because the boards themselves more than offset the cost (>$500), not to mention FB-DIMMS being required.
 
cloim said:
It looks like socket 771 is aimed at dual-processor servers.
So for a start, you'll need two of them.
Then the motherboards are pricey.
...


Nope you can easily run a dual socket mobo with one processor
 
so, you would otherwise have a dual quad core system... 500$ for a motherboard is a bit much to swallow anyway. as is 600$ for the cpus.

so coming back around, when do we get read quad cores? like what conroe duo is right now, when do we get conroe quatro?(I dont know what theyre calling it)

I want to build a new pc, but I know we're closer to 4 cores then we are to when the duo came out. I dont like building with technologies whose time is already ticking, no matter how awesome it is. but I need to know Im not postponing for something that is farther away than I think.
 
The other question is, how well do these 771 mb's overclock. If they are overclockable, that price seems within reason for a quad core. A dual quad core setup......sounds like a fun way to encode some movies LOL.
 
as soon as an overclockable s771 board appears out there, things might become very interesting. taking all those cores above 3Gh would be pretty sweet.
not sure if any motherboard maker is interested in that much though.
 
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