Nehalem is NOT gonna cause serious drops till next year.this year it will just be a beginning of a new platform.it all depends on how well it does.if we see a significant increase in price-performance of i7 then only there will be a price decrease.otherwise intel will roll out some new processors followed by price decrease.
And since dollar prices are up,those q6600 and others' price decrease does not reflect in india.
Nehalem is NOT gonna cause serious drops till next year.this year it will just be a beginning of a new platform.it all depends on how well it does.if we see a significant increase in price-performance of i7 then only there will be a price decrease.otherwise intel will roll out some new processors followed by price decrease.
And since dollar prices are up,those q6600 and others' price decrease does not reflect in india.
we don't know that yet for sure ..though there had been rumors ..but Intel knows that disabling overclock ability will only cripple the product ..cos one of the USP of Core2 models were its amazing overclock ability ...If intel is really disabling overclockability in their 2.66GHz version, I think AMD is going to still be a strong competitor to it, with their 3.0GHz Deneb Quad Core, which is supposed to be around 300$ and can do 4GHz on stock cooling. It already beats the 2.66GHz nehalem acording to some indirect benchmarks (deneb vs phenom, nehalem vs yorkfield each given by respective companies; and phenom vs yorkfield measured real world) so adding some 30$ to it and buying a nice OCing CPU would be the thing most budget geeks would do.
Yeah. The Phenom X3 8450 looks tempting at its current price since it is better than E7200 now. But their lack of overclockability is pulling me away from them.
However, Core 2 Duo and Phenom X3 do not always show us an interesting race. We only see it in applications where performance scales well for more than two cores. Unfortunately, there are very few applications like that, so in most cases Phenom X3 loses to Intel processors from the same price range. Still, these applications do exist and include final rendering tasks, some video processing and encoding tasks, and a few others.
So, we have to state that another AMD initiative has not too many chances to succeed. Phenom X3 may become a great niche product, however, they will hardly get very popular. Youngest Intel processors from Wolfdale family priced at the same level offer higher average performance, lower heat dissipation and power consumption and much better overclocking potential. AMD, however, will hardly dare drop the Phenom X3 prices much lower, because they use a monolithic quad-core die, which is pretty expensive to make. To be fair, I would like to add that if AMD decided to lower the prices even more, Phenom X3 may become a worthy alternative to Core 2 Duo E4000 and Pentium Dual Core.
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