Looking to upgrade my cpu to a quad core. Will the price of socket 775 cpu's decrease

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soon?

I have an E2200 and was thinking of upgrading to a Q6600,Q8200, or a Q9300. Something like that. I've been looking around trying to find some deals and I've found a used 8200 for $85, but I'm not sure if I should keep waiting for a price drop or not. I hear things about Sandy bridge which might cause price drops? How likely is that?

I'm not wanting to spend more than $120 or so on the cpu so ya.

 

[BoomerD]

Not likely unless one of the resellers just wants to reduce inventory.
They've been holding their prices pretty well against the current i5/i7 offerings.

 

[mnewsham]

soon?

I have an E2200 and was thinking of upgrading to a Q6600,Q8200, or a Q9300. Something like that. I've been looking around trying to find some deals and I've found a used 8200 for $85, but I'm not sure if I should keep waiting for a price drop or not. I hear things about Sandy bridge which might cause price drops? How likely is that?

I'm not wanting to spend more than $120 or so on the cpu so ya.

You won't get a price drop with a legacy socket until it is so obsolete you won't even consider it. New socket wont lower prices because the older chips aren't made anymore.

 

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Hmm. I know Microcenter hada sale going on for the 9300 for $99
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0328258

Sadly, it's out of stock at the store and it's only for store pickup. And like you said, it seems they are just trying to unload on their inventory of it.

 

[RussianSensation]

Microcenter has Q9300 for $100.

 

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So is everyone with socket 775's just planning on moving to I7's and sandy bridge?

So expensive... >_>

 

[SmCaudata]

So is everyone with socket 775's just planning on moving to I7's and sandy bridge?

So expensive... >_>

Some will move and sell their old parts so people who just want acpu upgrade skill likely take the used route.

 

[CaptCanada]

So is everyone with socket 775's just planning on moving to I7's and sandy bridge?

So expensive... >_>

I plan on going from my X6800 to a SB cpu in the spring. I have had my X6800 for about five years now, works pretty good but have a chance for a completely new system build in the spring.

 

[Throckmorton]

I've been looking for a few weeks and haven't seen any deals on C2Q chips

$150 for a 2.6ghz quad isn't a bad deal, compared to how much you'd spend for an i7 + mobo + DDR3

 

[richierich1212]

Should've sold your DDR2 when RAM prices were still inflated. Now it's worth 2x as less.

 

[smakme7757]

More often than not older hardware just gets more expensive and as stated above when it is so obsolete it's pretty much useless.

Pitty i lapped my Q9450 (I'll never do that again) seeing as most people don't buy lapped CPU's.

 

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I've had my E2200 and 3850 for like 3 years. I don't play to many high end games on my pc so I see no reason to get sandybridge or I7 stuff. I see no reason why a good 775 quad can't hold me for another year or so.

A 9300 can be found for like $140 on ebay
And a decent video card like a 4890 can be found for $100 or less.

 

[Modelworks]

Should've sold your DDR2 when RAM prices were still inflated. Now it's worth 2x as less.

where ? DDR2 is still priced higher than DDR3.

 

[richierich1212]

I'm going off Newegg prices. 4GB of DDR2 for ok G.Skill sticks cost $58.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I'm going off Newegg prices. 4GB of DDR2 for ok G.Skill sticks cost $58.

and DDR3 4GB goes for 30-40 bucks

DDR2 is EXPENSIVE!!!!

OP - it depends on your need. What do you do on your PC?

 

[AtenRa]

A 9300 can be found for like $140 on ebay
And a decent video card like a 4890 can be found for $100 or less.

Sell your Mobo, CPU and ram for $100 and get the following

CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 = $117
Mobo: the cheapest P67 = ~$100
Ram: 2x 2G DDR-3 1333MHz = 2x $21,99

Total = 260,98 - 100 = $160,98

For $160 you get a new platform with SATA-3, USB-3, you get a new CPU that is faster or equal than any Core 2 Quad and DDR-3.
No way you could beat that performance/features and low power usage with that money

 

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Sell your Mobo, CPU and ram for $100 and get the following

CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 = $117
Mobo: the cheapest P67 = ~$100
Ram: 2x 2G DDR-3 1333MHz = 2x $21,99

Total = 260,98 - 100 = $160,98

For $160 you get a new platform with SATA-3, USB-3, you get a new CPU that is faster or equal than any Core 2 Quad and DDR-3.
No way you could beat that performance/features and low power usage with that money

Hmm, not a bad idea. But who would want to buy my E2200 and motherboard >_>

and DDR3 4GB goes for 30-40 bucks

DDR2 is EXPENSIVE!!!!

OP - it depends on your need. What do you do on your PC?

Just a general use pc with a bit of gaming. I don't play to much games on the pc, but when I do I want to be able to run it.

The hardest game I can run right now is Bad Company 2 and that's only at like 1280x1024 with some settings turned off.
And it just seems as though if i'm going to upgrade I should do it soon before these 775 parts get even more ancient and expensive.

 

[darksidesteve]

The speculation over whether or not the socket 775 is 'dead' or not has been going on since late 2009 when people were saying that ASRock would be the only manufacturer making 775's within 6 months. Well that's doesn't seem to be the case 18 months later and probably won't be the case for a while longer.

Building a new system around hardware you may already have could be more cost effective for you than buying all new hardware to equip a decent 1156.

I have several computers personally, but one I use the most has a Q6600 in it and has been running non stop going on 5 years. What's so special about a 2.4GHz C2Q? Well nothing really but it is overclocked to 3.2GHz without hessitation on air all that time and thus competing with an entry level i5 CPU for the $150 I paid for it used several years ago. Today you can pick one up on ebay for $100-$120. I don't do any gaming on this system but I run 6 HD's (dual RAID 0 arrays) 1 for storage, 1 for OS, 4 optical drives, 4GB's of RAM, on a Gigabyte P35 MB originally purchased 2006. I get 3064 on passmark 64bit performance bench. My gaming system has a GTX470 in it, a Q9505 @ 3.83GHz, 6GBs of RAM, on an EVGA SLI MB, and it only gets 2200 on the same test.

Many top manufacturers are still making MB's for the 775's now with DDR3 RAM, USB 3.0, and for under $100 (in some cases considerably less) Time will tell if SataIII will make it to the 775 socket.

I've put together many custom systems for my clients in the 10+ years I've been in business, including some i5/i7's but I'm still amazed at the Core2 Quad's ability to OC like crazy, usually by 1GHz or better on air.

Bottom line is unless you're really wanting something special, which would require a 1366 i7 CPU, (as it is the only socket Intel or AMD that supports tripple channel RAM, plus will automatically come with all the latest goodies like SataIII, USB 3, 3x USB power) you can get i5 speeds from a Core2Quad that's nudged a little. As for AMD, their quads and even 6 core CPU's don't hold a candle to Intel's equivalents. I've ran benchmarks on several Phemon Quads that don't even stack up to a really fast Core 2 Duo in processing power/speed.

Also to curb the options of this thread; right now Newegg has 105 different socket 775 based MB's for sale (most of which has DDR3 and are priced under $100) , they have only 39 socket 1366 MB's (over 2/3 of which are priced at $200 and up) and has 110 socket 1156 based MB's (of which only about 1/3 are priced under $100), with the 1155 socket coming in at around 50 entries.

 

[OCGuy]

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