dual core intel cpu - misprice?

dc2447

I have never seen a dual core processor this cheap -

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productinfo.aspx?ProductID=13265

zincoxide

It's around £15 cheaper than most sites, but think they'll price it to get rid of them!

phanco

zincoxide wrote:

It's around £15 cheaper than most sites, but think they'll price it to get rid of them!

still a great price for an eminently overclockable cpu (with the irhgt motherboard/cooling...)

Kilty_2

OMG :eek:

My bank account is hurting enough without this..

*tries to refrain from buying this*

Megalomaniac

Wait out till august for the 64 bit core 2 duo... will be much more vista compatible and will be worth the wait. Benchmark scores have it beating AMD's dual core 64 bit processor by a mile! I know I'm waiting till August for the laptop version to come out, desktop version of the cpu is due out any day now!

georgesky01

dc2447 wrote:

I have never seen a dual core processor this cheap -

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productinfo.aspx?ProductID=13265

stupid question but do you need a new mother board to use these

dc2447

georgesky01 wrote:

stupid question but do you need a new mother board to use these

I'm afriad so

dc2447

Megalomaniac wrote:

Wait out till august for the 64 bit core 2 duo... will be much more vista compatible and will be worth the wait. Benchmark scores have it beating AMD's dual core 64 bit processor by a mile! I know I'm waiting till August for the laptop version to come out, desktop version of the cpu is due out any day now!

with respect I never understood the loogic of paying through the nose to ne an early cpu adopter.

The cpu above will pack alot of wallop for a low price

ultrak3wl

I've got one, it was 80 quid a couple months ago from ebuyer. Yes you need a suitable socket 775 motherboard but they come in about 40 quid. So for just over the ton you got a dual 3.0 at very least after overclocking. Seems weird to bring up task-manager and see two graphs instead of usual one.

If you spend a bit more on the motherboard you can almost certainly get it up nearer to a dual 4.0GHz. It's practically free really in computer terms!

Other posters are probably right though holding off now will probably get you something even more amazing in a few months. Decent enough to satisfy me as is however.

marble

Megalomaniac wrote:

Wait out till august for the 64 bit core 2 duo... will be much more vista compatible and will be worth the wait. Benchmark scores have it beating AMD's dual core 64 bit processor by a mile!!

These Intel chips are 64bit and should be easily capable of running Vista. Of course, you can wait and get something faster, but at this price if you can find a cheap motherboard and ram, it might be a cost effective upgrade.

Al

caleb2003

I read that all the prices of these were coming down when the Conroe chips come out soon (or has that happened yet?)

I am looking at this cpu (pentium d 805) but will need to get a new MB, cooler mayber memory etc anyone got any reccomdations for this.