9/1 How many of you bought one of those new Intel CPUs, whatd you pay
and what are you doing with it? --Just curious
\_ E6600, $380 on release day, games and replacing old machine mostly.
\_ didn't buy, leery of initial CPU/mobo releases and especially the
strange mobo pricing for Core 2 Duo. The dev and ramping of C2D
seem unusually rushed.
seem worryingly rushed. Also, review sites need to perform reviews
on anonymously ordered CPUs, not on CPUs donated by Intel which
probably have lowest power draw for its stepping, the donations
occurring far in advance of widespread product availability. |