Price of 3.0Ghz 800mhz FSb

ArphaRima · 07-07-2003 4:19am #1

Anybody know when the Intel 3.00 or 3.20 Ghz 800mhz FSB chips will be coming down in price? want one really badly but frankly 490-750 respectively is a rip. 400 maybe.

Or at least what chips are planned next and when so i can guage it myself.

Matt Simis · 07-07-2003 11:41am

They are priced so high as they are premium CPUs. If you cant afford premium then buy a slower P4 800MHz like th 2.6 or 2.8... thats what they are there for.

All 800MHz FSB CPUs support Hyperthreading, so you arent missing out on anything but a few percent performance.

Matt

rabbitinlights · 07-07-2003 12:35pm

Save your self some cash and get a 2.6/2.8 like matt said and spend the cash on some more ram (dual ddr) and that would probably show more for your cash. you probably wouldnt notice the last 200Mhz unless you were thrashing the PC where as the ram would help across all uses?

Sean

astrofool · 07-07-2003 1:11pm

Depends what u're using the pc for, but usually you're better off getting the non-premium chips and getting a better graphics card, more ram, faster hard drive (raptor?

and there isn't enough of a saving to get a scsi

) or a bigger monitor, no point having the best if u view on an old heap of sh*t

ArphaRima · 07-07-2003 3:45pm

Well im mid-upgrade. Got a 1.8ghz with 512 RDRAM. have Geforce 5800 and 19" monitor. 80Gb+60Gb HD's.

Motherboard, chip and Ram only planned upgrades really.

From 1.8ghz upgrading is only really worth it if i get 3ghz or higher.

Col_Loki · 07-07-2003 4:19pm

Why not go for a 2.8C with an ABIT IC7 motherboard and overclock it to 3.4Ghz (mabye more) - then you would get the performance increase without paying the top dollar for 3.0Ghz chip?? - Just a thought.

Price of 3.0Ghz 800mhz FSb

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