If your thinking about buying a new computer....

According to PCStats, these price cuts will be quite impressive and one example used quotes the Intel Quad-Core Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz/4MB L2 x2/1066MHzFSB) processor, released in March of this year. On July 22 that particular processor will be 68.7 per cent cheaper since launch and will be available for a mere USD 266. A new model, the Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz/4MB L2 x2/1066MHzFSB), will also be introduced at USD 530.

On July 22, three Core 2 Duo 6050 chips will be introduced and will feature competitive prices. The three new models, E6550 (2.33GHz), E6750 (2.66GHz), and E6850 (3GHz)(all featuring 1333 MHz FSB), will be priced at USD 266, USD 183 and USD 163 respectively. Additionally the E4400 value chip will see its price drop to USD 113 while a new processor, the E4500, will launch and will feature 2.2GHz clock speed, 2MB L2 Cache and 800MHz FSB, all for USD 133.

So if you can't wait two month those are pretty good price drop....

 

Damn, I've just upgraded to an E6420 chip!!! :yum :banghead

 

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

 

No help for us AMD fans. Besides it'll probably only benefit us geeks who build our own.

 

I'm so confused on computers, I do not understand all the Core 2 Duo chips, I know that you want to get a fast processor and memory. The computer we have now and that is bad is a Compaq Presario 5400US it's 9 yrs old. My Brother told me what to look for as far a hard drive and memory, and thats what we bought.
I'd like to stay with the HP products I'm use to them. Can you give me some idea on what to look for as far as hard drives,memory,processors, because I don't know what to really look for in a new computer.

Many Thanks
pjkessler

 

I have just bought a Q6700 CPU and they are definitely fast, i coupled it with 2 X 2gb sticks of DDR3 ram and a GTX260 GPU and it's going really well.

 

You might want to start a new thread for this. Anything you buy today will be a lot more powerful than what you have now. It all depends on how much money you want to spend.

 

Hello KingSteve, I am so new to posting, what do I do to post a new thread, I tried to find what to click on to do it but had no idea what to look for. Actually Major Geeks is the first time I've done any posting. I'm still searching to find where to start new threads.

Thank You
pjkessler

 

Welcome ...

As you may know, you are currently in the "Hardware" Forum (you will see this listed near the top of this page, in a couple of places).

Look just above that, near the very top, and click on "Majorgeeks.com - Support Forums" and you will get the entire list of all the forums for the site.

When you decide/choose/select the forum you'd like to post in ("Hardware", in this case) near the top, just above "Threads in Forum: Hardware", on the left, you will see a (Brown) button that says: "New Thread". Select that, and post-away!

Best,
Glenn ...

 

Thank you so much Glenn, I looked all over to post a thread, but didn't really know what I was looking for. I really appreciate your help on the posting, also bought a computer HP Pavilion AMD Phenom X4 9150 Quad Core Processor 4 GB system mem. 500 GB harddrive. Hope it is a good one.

Again Thank You For Your Help
Patsy