I am planning to upgrade to Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, but looking at the price drop I am reluctant to buy it now. For reference, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600's price in the respective months,

RM 1160 in April 07
RM 815 in May 07

That's around RM300 drop in a month! Just how much further will CPU's price drop? Can anyone shed some light into my question? Thanks.

There is rumour that Intel is gonna have a price cut on july 22 for quadcore
Not sure would this affect C2D though

play the waiting game and they make u feel slow when u decide to get ur chip, when it drops till around rm500 like that u will feel like getting the quad core.. lol.

Forget about E6600, it will be phased out with new models by July

wallau again ar intel will slash their proc price
huhuhu will kering my pocket again for quad core

if ur current cpu is c2d, i dont think u shuld upgrade to that c2q. as it wont offer any performance differences if u didn run any software that take full advantage of it. and there are hardly any games/software which is design for quad core.

anyway, expect cpu to drop further end of this year. i believe it will be as much as 50percent for c2q. since there will be competition from amd quad core as well. my advice is that, wait for amd quad core on the market 1st, baru u start thinking of the c2q. coz it will get super cheap by then.

ofcourse there still no available software or game that need quad core to do the job but in future can u predict what will happen

. of coz future software will be multi thread coded. the thing he is asking now is how much further the quad core will drop in price. indirectly asking whether he shuld buy that 6600 quad core or not now.

IT'S NOT A RUMOUR
intel confirm it themself. Q6600 will be around USD260. they only give hint for c2q, not sure bout c2d though.

if u say bout 1333fsb cpu, it already out. E6x50. unless you meant Penryn...

1333 fsb oledi in market r??
wat the price tag for it...

Thanks for all the info. I am currently using Pentium 4 3.0GHz (bought less than a year ago). Judging from all the infos gathered, I should probably hold on for my CPU upgrade. I am not planning to get quad core processors, those are a little over the top for me. C2D E6600 (or C2D E6700 is another choice) seems to be a reasonable upgrade for my PC.

This post has been edited by perx135305: May 22 2007, 08:51 AM

got more info in this thread... read last page romor intel slash price on theri proc

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/406618/+260

You really can't ask such question because prices of PC components will always keep on dropping until they are phased out (THEN the prices will increase due to shortage!).

In computers, you can only wait so much before you upgrade. Depends on how "patient" you are and what your needs are .....

This post has been edited by kmarc: May 22 2007, 10:35 AM

I think it would be kinda pointless to wait. New thing keep coming in and the more u wait, new generation proc will appear and at that time, do u wan to go for wat u called it now Pentium 4. unless they goin drop price in a month or 2, wait then, or else, buy it now.

u can wait but not too long...

will come out new power one tht is more expensive...

in coming year Quad core will become mainstream, but ddr3 will take some time due to high price... but still don't know bout amd, did they will follows intel step, slash the price...

in that case dont buy lor unless ur damd rich liao

Yes, Penryn

USD266 to be exact, both models E6850 (new model) and Q6600 will be at the same price after next Thunder slash...

i dont think so...

look at this...


E6750 which is better than E6600 is more cheaper.

now the question is, whether it works on LGA755 with P965 chipset.

and how good is the perfomance, i mean in overclock ability. as the bigger FSB. Im still in dilema because E6750 is way lot more cheaper than E6600. is it good for me just to wait or quickly grab E6600 and wait for the E6750 to drop price again? 22 jully is not a long wait. i think. 200+ save... any point?.... help me.

Just wait lah, around 2 months only

Or can go to PC Fair... 3-5 August... PIKOM said so...

if Intel tend to slash again the price of c2D, I'm wonder how much AMD X2 will cost after that... And yet this is a never ending war of price between this two great manufacturer...

for TS, wait and wait, soon ur current system will be no more value after that, better upgrade now and sell off ur current rig, you can get some money to topup for the upgrade...

This post has been edited by katunX: May 22 2007, 08:20 PM

One downside to Intel's price drop. AMD may lose the race entirely!!! Then there will be no competition and Intel's monopoly will drive up prices again! Could this be a possibility?

So far, AMD has nothing yet to compete with Intel...... Competition is good so let's hope that AMD has an answer!

lol it already take too long time for amd to raise however seem intel keep on beating it

but now is still
cheapest dual core is AMD's region, as low as rm240 u can own athlonx2 3600. Intel E4300 still need rm350 (bulk), and Intel mobo is usually more expensive, due to the memory controller being chipset dependant for intel mobo, some cheapo intel mobo will have performance degradation.
so i think, in the lower price segment, amd still wins. But with budget higher than rm400 might as well venture into intel.

If u can wait, wait lor.
Sure price goes down every month.
Thats IT trend.

yeah, people with opt for AMD in term of performance per lower price, since Intel still not affordable and a better option for some people to go for dual-core, what's wrong with choosing the AMD after all...it still a good bargain...