Best Price for E6400 CPU

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Alan

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Pcint.co.za seems to have the best price at R2000 incl vat. I've looked around at other major online stores and I've found nothing better.

Anyone know if there is a better price?
 
Well I emailed them to find out about shipping fees and no reply yet.
 
PCInternational is also around the R2,000 mark (R2,050 if I remember correctly) so you have a R50 bargain there :)
 
Holy crap C2D CPU's are expensive! They might outperform the AMD's but DAMN!
I thought they were cheap until you posted and I actually went and checked the prices!
 
I'm starting to wonder if Pcint.co.za actually want to sell me their product because they have yet to reply. Maybe I should send the email again .
 
rofl kingrob shame man my old 3000+ was faster than your 3ghz intel :)

but now my e6300 is faster than any amd cpu on the market :)
 
Piesang said:
R3000 for a Core 2 Duo E6600 is definately worth it. I can't imagein myself using a slower CPU ever again.
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Do honestly realize the speed difference? I'm running a 3800+ with the PowerNow feature enabled and the CPU runs @ 1ghz about 98% of the time. I hardly get time to play games and when I do I'm able to play all my games @ 1280 x 1024 (My LCD's native resolution) with very decent frame rates. I've gained far more by spending the extra 1.5k I would have spent on the Intel platform on my GFX card.

I'm not trying to start another pro AMD anti Intel thread, just trying to point out that cpu performance at the moment isn't as critical as, say Gfx performance.
 
I still use my old P4 2.8HT PC with 1GB DDR 400 Ram. My main PC is my new Core 2 Duo E6600 also with 1GB DDR but DDR 2 667 Ram.

Speed difference?? Off course.

Just to give you a idea:

700MB avi file conversion to DVD
P4 = 60min
C2D = 25min

Saving of Audio files after recording
P4 = 10sec
C2D = 4sec

PC Startup
P4 = 50sec
C2D = 25sec

Other tasks definately 100% faster.
 
u notice the difference in a big way

my pc runs so fast

man corel draw is so fast now

lots of games dont use alot of the cpu

but dx 10 games you will need a powerful cpu to feed the dx vga cards

the speed difference is huge in normal windows use, even in games your frames per second should go up
 
Thats a nice price.

A AMD x2 5000+ is about the same price and performance wise they are almost exactly the same. If running either at stock, there is no difference. The 6400 is however highly overclockable...

I also prefer the Nvidia chipset AMD motherboards, they have decent integrated graphics and are usually cheaper than Intel or Nvidia chipset Intel boards.
 
LOL, I was busy reading your other thread.

Asus M2NPV-VM
all-in-one ; socket AM2 , nVidia geforce6150 + nforce 430 chipset , 4x dual channel DDR2-800 , 4 x s-ata2 with raid 0/1/0+1/5 , 2 x parallel ata133 , on-board vga dual-output ( DVi-D or D-SUB ) with TV-out ( RCA+S-Video+1080i HDTV ) , iEEE1394a firewire , AD1986A 5.1 audio + gigabit lan ; 1x pci-e (1x) , 1x pci-e (16x) , 2 x pci - micro atx

Just installed Vista on such a system last week, need to download the drivers from the nvidia site, CD is just WinXP drivers.

I dont know about the overclocking features of this card, but it has TV out, even component output (that green red and blue connectors thing)! One heck of home theatre system board.
 
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