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01-25-2008, 06:44 PM

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I got it for the simple fact that I only had to pay $250 for the board, processor and vista

Where? thats a good $600+ worth of stuff there.

since i work in retail, intel has a retail program where you do online training and you get points. at the end of the year if you have enough points they offer a board processor combo with a copy of windows. this year they were offering the q6600 or if you had enough points the q6700. the price difference between the 2 was 30 dollars. and on newegg the q6700 is going for $539

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Originally Posted by popatim

Nice score!
Whacha gonna do with the intel bd?

I'm either going to use it for a dvr or build my parents a new computer

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01-25-2008, 07:43 PM

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too bad that most apps/games cant fully take advantage of multiple CPU threads.

For the average user, you are generally better off for home/gaming use in getting the fastest dual core processor with the most cache rather than a quad core at this point.

Why not to get a quad core processor:

in a business/application enviroment....
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.c...253467,00.html

for gaming...
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquir...less-for-games