Im ordering the x2 5600 cpu friday, I want to wait for the summer introduction of am2+ x4 1900 and the cheap quads from intel, however, I cant pass up on this deal. Anywho, who is getting a x4 or core 2 quad this summer when the pricing is more mainstream? Is anyone consdering the quadfx with dual quads(or dual octo's early next year from both amd and intel)? Im really stoked for a quad and maybe ill do sli this time.

I do plan on going quad. On top of waiting for Intel's price cuts and its new chipsets, I also want to see what AMD has to offer for the desktop.

Me, of course. I'm waiting for Intel to cut their prices, but also waiting to see what AMD has to offer. Either way, I'll probably get a cheap quad core to last me for a couple of years.

I will probably closer around Christmas, I myself just bought an AMD 6000+, DFI LanParty NF590 motherboard, and 4 GB's of RAM, so this should hold me over for awhile...

i dunno yet, i wanna see some of the new bearlake mobo's and i want one who support penryn all the way.. thats what im counting on.

congratulations with ur 6000+ ''getting jealous''

Not I.

Not to be argumentative, but I cant keep a 3.2Ghz core2 fed...

Kinda like gfx8800gtx, they will be mainstream by the time there is a dx10 game to use them

I will be getting a new pc in July... it will have a quad core chip, and an R600 8)

Most likely once prices have come down. A $266 Q6600 is very tempting but I'd probably hold out to see what AMD can offer, and for what price.

My next computer will be a replacement for my 5-year-old notebook. I will replace it when either its batteries go flat or it just up and dies. I predict about another year, 18 mos. tops on the batteries. I have two, one I bought 8/05 to replace the original one from 2002 and then another one I got from a friend who trashed a similar notebook and had a still-working battery. My battery is about 80% of original capacity and the other has about 2/3 the runtime of a new battery, which gives me about two hours on a full charge. The notebook might die on me before the batteries do as the heat of a 2.2 GHz P4-M has not been kind to the innards. The southbridge is acting flaky when the computer gets running and warm, so I am crossing my fingers that it keeps running as long as it can.

My replacement for this notebook will be something in the 12" screen range and ~4 lbs. The old Gateway is a 4:3 15.7" monitor and weighs 9 pounds, which is just darn big. I might be able to snag my brother's now 18-month-old PM 755 Dell 700m (12.1" ) for cheap as he insists on getting a new computer for grad school in a year. Otherwise I'm looking at a similar-sized machine with lower-end specs but a lower-TDP CPU.

My desktop is tapped out and much more than replacing a dead part would require a significant upgrade. I'm running an X2 4200+ on a socket 939 board, so a real upgrade would mean new CPU, board, and RAM. I have no free HDD bays and only a PCIe x1 slot available. The two x16s and the PCI slots are filled or blocked. Adding much else would require a new case. I've got one Molex connector from my PSU left, so much more would require a new PSU as well. But I am extremely happy with the machine's performance, even though it's over a year old. I attribute most of it to two wonderful 20.1" LCDs and a well-laid-out partition/RAID/filesystem setup on the HDDs. I'll likely upgrade this guy in another 3-4 years, a couple years after I snag a new or less-old laptop. It will certainly have more than 4 cores in it, likely dual 8-core CPUs on a real workstation board in a server case to hold all the HDDs and such.

I'm defintely aiming for the Q6600 later this year.

I could really care less about Penryn, as Kentsfield provides more than enough processing power for my needs. That, and Penryn/Barcelona quads will come with a premium to pay, unlike a $266 Q6600.

Amen brother.

A $266 Q6600

Cheap, fast, likely good for a couple years.

did I mentiion cheap?

2xQuad, likely beginning of Q4. By then the Penryn/Barcy haze will have settled and I'll go for the best price/performance ratio of the two. I just hope that there will be a nextgen QFX board out, otherwise Barcy is out of the running.

Bingo... I'm all over this one too.

going e4300 (april 22 < $130) to hold me over till the q6600 price drop.

Unless another quad comes along at a better price/perf ratio (doubtful for DT).

I'm, getting the Q6600 next month (after the price drops). Hopefully I'll match it with an R600 (if available and better than a 8800 GTX) on a ASUS P5W DH Motherboard.

The main application I have that works my processor is Flight Simulator 10 (or FSX if you will). I wanted to keep my new processor under $500.00 and the E6600, E6700, and Q6600 (after price drop) were all in the running. I knew there were some games that would take advantage of multi-core processing (Alan Wake, Half Life, et al), but I was not interested in playing any of those. I do some video-processing, but not enough to provide solo justification for quad core.

I was thinking of going for the E6700 because I thought it would overclock better than the Q6600 and because I didn't think FSX would take advantage of more than 2 cores. Still, there was this nagging feeling like my system would be more and more obsolete as more and more multi-threaded applications were released if I bought a "mere" dual core processor. Finally, when Microsoft announced that the patch to FSX (patch SP1) was going to take much greater advantage of multi-core processors, my mind was made up. I'm definitely getting a quad.

Rob