Core 2 Quad Q6600 - Is it Gamer Choice

No problem. I simply failed to see the link and thus I asked

 

Lots of people want to say that companies change sockets so they can make more money. I don't really think that's as much the case, because it costs the company money to design and fabricate all this stuff and make it work -- and more pins = more parts = more materials = more cost.

Typically socket updates are done to facilitate upcoming features or to help signal quality. A whole lot of the pins in S478 and LGA775 are simple grounds -- you need a lot of common grounding and common power planes to make sure signal propogation works the way it should.

But of course, you can also use more pins to facilitate more cores, more / wider data transport interfaces, and other such items.

It's likely that the new socket design will carry Intel forward into Octal-core processors (or even further) and may also include individual data busses per-core. I'm 100% speculating right now, but it's a good place to start IMO.

 

Fine is a subjective...

 

A subjective dot dot dot? What's a dot dot dot?

If you don't think it'll function properly, then by all means feel free to provide just a tad more information

 

Certainly the obvious answer would be the inclusion of an IMC, but you have to keep in mind that Socket B is the solution for the multi-socket market (i.e. server/workstation) whereas Socket H is the replacement for the current Socket T and has *less* pins (715 vs. 775).
So, IMC = less pins? I doubt that very much.

 

Socket B & Socket H - TechReport

Seems pretty clear-cut to me, but not straight from the horse's mouth so I won't bother arguing as though it's written in stone.

 

Still doesn't make much sense to me to have such a high pin count for a mainstream part (especially when we know there is a new mainstream socket) but we'll see next year.

 

Intel doesn't do things for "absolutely no reason"

 

Old thread I know - but on July 22nd Intel was supposed to drop prices on this chip.

Anyone find it odd that many of the online resources are now sellling the Q6600 for over 340 U.S. Dollars? Seems a lot of price gouging is going on all of a sudden.

 

The only place I see doing that much wallet raping is NewEgg. Other places offer it for $290 or under.

 

I think I'll wait until the price drops on Newegg. Call me crazy, but I'm always skeptical when "Product may differ from image shown" is written on the page.... Does that give them leeway to ship you a brick?

 

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