Intel CPU price drop over 40% recently

kkcci88888

Hong Kong

Intel C2D E8500 -- $1499.00

Intel C2Q Q6600 -- $1520.00

Most seems the Quad core is better, according to e-Zone magazine, if we use it for Game playing, most of the application use one Core only. They recommend to buy E8500 is better as the frequency is much higher than Q6600. Moreover,  it can save some electric power.

If we use it for HTPC, what is you choice...E8500 or Q6600.

Frank

Only for HTPC, choose E8500. higher frequency, low power cunsumption.
However, if you want to play nonlinear edit and code conversion.suggest you to choose Q6600

raven113

Price drops are always welcome. But I think I'll wait for Nahelem anyway. Some say the launch is very close now, even in October.

kkcci88888

Any more information on 'Nahelem' ??

raven113

Eh, I misspelled the word. It should be Nehalem.

Check out the Wikipedia page on Nehalem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)

And this news says that the release is going to be in Sep., but it won't be available on the market until Oct.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080724PD205.html