Quad core for $266 in July (hopefully). Lets see some CHEAP crunching builds?

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: PCTC2
My Post was getting kinda long so here's my next 2 projects for crunchers:

The light cruncher/daily-use rig. Total: ~$600
E6400@3.6GHz (laying around) on TR Ultra120 $55
MSI Neo2 P35 Motherboard $130
2x1GB Team Xtreem PC8500 RAM $155
80GB SATAII Seagate 7200.10 $44
Asus DVD-ROM $20
Asus 8600GT $150
CM Centurion 5 Case $50

Q6600 Cruncher: ~$600
Q6600 G0 Stepping on TR Ultra120X @ 3.0GHz $266-300 +$55
MSI G33M Motherboard $95
2x 512MB G.Skill PC6400 RAM $57
80GB Seagate 7200.10 SATAII $44
Asus DVD-ROM $20
CM Centurion 5 Case $50
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Are you missing the PSU ? I can't believe that you would get a quality PSU in a $50 case

BTW my order has been confirmed

The good news, the only thing I changed was the I went for the P5K Premium.

The bad news, E6850 Back Ordered: 358 - On Order: 540 ? Earliest E.T.A: July 19th, 2007

 

[ShotgunSteven]

ZipZoomFly.Com has been dropping their price a little bit every day on the Q6600 as July 22nd approaches. I think Newegg.com actually raised their prices, lol. I guess ZZF figured they would rather take a small bite on the procs and are hoping people will be impatient and settle for a slightly better price before the official price drop arrives.

 

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
ZipZoomFly.Com has been dropping their price a little bit every day on the Q6600 as July 22nd approaches. I think Newegg.com actually raised their prices, lol. I guess ZZF figured they would rather take a small bite on the procs and are hoping people will be impatient and settle for a slightly better price before the official price drop arrives.

I've noticed that to, it's a no brainer I guess since the store I bought mine from is selling the E6850 cheaper than the E6700 and patrons are sorta going hhhmmmm... not to mention that it's been all over the wibble and AMD has dropped their prices...

Oh well 7 days to go actually my webstore is saying that availability for the E6850 is on the 19th.

my order is in I just have to be patient and wait for the UPS Guy.

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: NicColt

Originally posted by: PCTC2
My Post was getting kinda long so here's my next 1 project for crunching:

E6400 Cut. Processor SOLD

Corrected. Will not be built until November/December.

Quad Cruncher: ~$1300
Some cheap quad on TR Ultra120X @ 3.0GHz $266-300 +$55
Asus P5KC P35 Motherboard (or Asus X38) $150
2x 1GB Team Xtreem DDR2-1066 Dark RAM $155
80GB Seagate 7200.10 SATAII $44
Asus DVD-ROM $20
nVIDIA G92-based video card (possible SLI) $??? ~350?
CM Centurion 5 Case $50
EnerMax Infiniti 650W (EIN650AWT) w/ 28A per 12v Rail, triple Rail. $190
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Are you missing the PSU ? I can't believe that you would get a quality PSU in a $50 case

doh! I forgot to add that. Corrected

 

[ShotgunSteven]

ZipZoomFly.Com now has them at $399.90, Newegg.Com at $430.00. Supposedly the official drop has now happened, and if so, it was a bit early from what I was told. Now if the e-tailers would just get in step.

 

[imaheadcase]

Its still on for next week.

 

[TallBill]

I've got my parts narrowed down I think, should be a tad bit over $600, going the cased route with a fancy hsf to OC.

 

[Smoke]

Clipped from Market Watch article on today's front page:

Intel (INTC : Intel Corporation 7:47am 07/18/2007 INTC) shares were last down 4.3% at $25.19 and were the most actively traded of the session, according to Nasdaq. The company said its gross margin for the second quarter was 46.9%, lower than its previous forecast of 48% because of lower average selling prices for its microprocessors and slow demand for its NOR flash chips.

Is this morning's action showing a little anticipation of the new pricing? :shocked:

 

[Alyx]

Since they've known about the lower pricing for months now I doubt this is a direct result of those. Either their financial guys aren't talking to their pricing strategy guys or maybe even lower prices! haha. I doubt it though, I think this is all we'll get (which isn't anything to scoff at).

 

[waffleironhead]

This is what im thinking of picking up to increase my output. I have the spare parts around to finish it off. Would anyone care to comment its price per performance.

Tigerdirect Barebone

 

[GLeeM]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
This is what im thinking of picking up to increase my output. I have the spare parts around to finish it off. Would anyone care to comment its price per performance.

Tigerdirect Barebone

I don't see where it says it supports the quad core.

 

[waffleironhead]

I failed to impart that quad cores setups are at the time out of my budget, but as an alternative i was going to pick up one of these. Sorry for the confusion!

 

[PCTC2]

@ WaffleIronHead

You could build a cheap C2D build that would eat the barebone system for breakfast for just a little more:

Intel E2140 $85
MSI G33 Motherboard: $93
1 GB Super Talent $45
RAIDMAX Apex Case w/ 450W PSU $50

Sure, it's $270 vs $180, but it has a much better upgrade track (G33 Chipset supports upcoming 45nm processors, quads, and better RAM), and the E2140 is a much more efficient dual-core and it will out-perform a Pentium D anytime. The RAM is faster, and the case is just a standard ATX case.

 

[TallBill]

Thats the mobo I'm looking at PCTC2, onboard video helps too for a dedicated.

I'm spending a bit more on a case and psu though

 

[PCTC2]

Yeah, but looking at the barebones he chose, his budget isn't as high as yours, and no where near as high as mine.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: PCTC2
Yeah, but looking at the barebones he chose, his budget isn't as high as yours, and no where near as high as mine.

Mines just a cruncher, just wait untill its time to build more when I get home

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Amaroque

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
I want 4 please

I want six, with six motherboards, and 6GB RAM. That would replace all my machines.
Wow, that would be 24 cores in six machines, up from 9 cores in six machines. :Q

lol ,that would be awsome

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I am building a quad core machine, and I have all parts but the processor since I am waiting on the price drop. What DC apps will take full advantage of the Q6600?

DPAD will ,amongst others.

Btw my C2D does more than twice as much work in DPAD as my old XPM @2.5GHz but uses just the same amount of power!:Q

Atm here in the UK Ebuyer are doing E6850s for £175 (~$350) & Q6600s for £243 (~$486) ,I'll see what it's like on Monday.

waffleironhead
To get that 805 to really sing you'll need to overclock the hell out of it ,can that mbrd o/c at all?
Also look at this DPAD thread (with graph) to compare C2D to P4s ,worth looking at previous graph too.

 

[dmcowen674]

I have not built a new machine since my ASUS with XP1600 around 1999 or 2000 that was upgradeable to the last of the XP line that I put a XP3200+ in it June of 2004 just before I left Atlanta from divorce number 2.

The machine is showing signs of it;s age with occasional random lock ups now.

So looks like I held out long enough for a quad core.

Wow basically four PC's in one machine.

Maybe Vista might actually work as fast as XP on that one.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
I have not built a new machine since my ASUS with XP1600 around 1999 or 2000 that was upgradeable to the last of the XP line that I put a XP3200+ in it June of 2004 just before I left Atlanta from divorce number 2.

The machine is showing signs of it;s age with occasional random lock ups now.

So looks like I held out long enough for a quad core.

Wow basically four PC's in one machine.

Maybe Vista might actually work as fast as XP on that one.

Q6600 are at $299 today, hopefully they'll drop another $20-30.. If not in a few days I'll just buy em.

 

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Q6600 are at $299 today, hopefully they'll drop another $20-30.. If not in a few days I'll just buy em.

wow this canadian NCIX link show $289.99 for a Q6600 + Auto Assault if you buy today.

must resist....

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: imaheadcase
Don't forget to add overclocking into equation.

Im going to overclock 2 quadcores, thats about 24-28ghz of cpu power

Should be fun

:Q

Is there an AMD quad core equivalent yet?

I've never built an intel machine and don't plan on doing so unless I have to.

 

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Is there an AMD quad core equivalent yet?
I've never built an intel machine and don't plan on doing so unless I have to.

Sadly not yet...

as a long time AMD/ATI supporter I find the present situation a sad one. Although I hope that AMD bounces back I don't see them dominating anytime soon. It's sad to see what they're doing right now.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: NicColt

Originally posted by: TallBill
Q6600 are at $299 today, hopefully they'll drop another $20-30.. If not in a few days I'll just buy em.

wow this canadian NCIX link show $289.99 for a Q6600 + Auto Assault if you buy today.

must not resist....

Fixed.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I was thinking of building a micro-ATX quad-core cruncher, just for the heck of it. I already have a micro-ATX case, but the problem is it only has a 200W PSU (Enhance). Is that too weak to support a quad-core? I don't have a mobo picked out, but I would want one that can overclock too. Either that, or I could just get a C2D and OC, that would probably fit within the limits of that PSU. Or I could get a Gigabyte P35-DS3R and the QC, and just stick it into a regular ATX case with a 500W PSU or so.

I would borg my mom's machine (C2D Celly 2.0Ghz), but she's still on dialup.

It feels like my recently-purchased Opty 165 is obsolete already with the arrival of QC CPUs. My C2D @ 2.8Ghz crunches better already. If I could get a QC @ 3.2Ghz or better, that would be awesome.

I already have an A64 4000+ (OC'ed to 2.81Ghz), A64 3800+ (haven't OCed yet), and an Opty 165 (chip is good for 2.7Ghz+) sitting around un-installed into cases, so they are doing nothing right now. Would it be better to get those systems running, rather than splash out for a QC rig for crunching? The QC would probably out-crunch all three of them combined though.

My biggest problem is limited space, along with a fairly limited budget. I could afford one QC rig but probably not more.

Edit: More. I just discovered something interesting. Apparently, you can use UP Xeons in S775 consumer motherboards! They come in S775 too. The Xeon 3220 is the equivalent to the Q6600, at 2.4Ghz and quad-core, but Intel also sells a Xeon 3210, which is only 2.13Ghz and cheaper! So for those looking for a quad-core on the cheap, this may actually be a better solution than the Q6600. The problem is, you can't just get these chips at NewEgg (I don't think). Someone has a 3210 OC'ed to 3.6Ghz on a Gigabyte P35-DS3R.

See the comment about running a Xeon here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...ight=Q6600#post2290518
See the upcoming prices for Xeons here: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6493

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
I have not built a new machine since my ASUS with XP1600 around 1999 or 2000 that was upgradeable to the last of the XP line that I put a XP3200+ in it June of 2004 just before I left Atlanta from divorce number 2.

The machine is showing signs of it;s age with occasional random lock ups now.

So looks like I held out long enough for a quad core.

Wow basically four PC's in one machine.

Maybe Vista might actually work as fast as XP on that one.

Q6600 are at $299 today, hopefully they'll drop another $20-30.. If not in a few days I'll just buy em.

Same here. I would like to save the extra cash, but time is money... and I'm losing crunching time while waiting for it to drop the last few dollars!