$185 Gaming CPU's: AMD 5600+ Versus Intel E6300

[Apoptosis]

The AMD A64 X2 6000+ is $170 and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 is $165.50 ---- I guess that would make for a fair $170 shootout, but I don't have a E6320 to test out or the budget to spend on one right now. Just this week I have spent over $1000 on plane tickets and hotel rooms for Quakecon in Dallas and Fall IDF in San Francisco. If any of our members would let me borrow a E6320 I'd be more than happy to update this article. Unless the money tree I planted in the back yard starts producing money before then.

[Bio-Hazard]

A Intel E6550 for $170 would be a better pick seeing as it's the most current CPU in that price range, it should easily smoke the AMD I think.

INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6550 (BX80557E6550) 2.33GHZ EM64T DUAL CORE W/4MB CACHE 1333MHZ LGA775-PIN RETAIL BOXED W/COOLING FAN (3 YEARS WARRANTY)

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx ... ia=BA24050

All you would need to do is take your current 6750 and drop the multi to 7x and there you go...........6550..............

[Apoptosis]

ah I just looked at Newegg and they had the E6550 for $185

[Bio-Hazard]

Fricken Newegg is ripping people off on the new cores, you can pretty much get a better price at any of the other big name E-Tailers out there, at least you could when I was ording my E6750. .............. The EGG was the most expensive of them all and their prices were still climbing...............

[werty316]

Its dumb that newegg is taking advantage of their sales by jacking up their prices but I heard others are following suit.

[Bio-Hazard]

I've seen a few others doing as well today, but not to the extent that the EGG has been doing.............. The EGG has a automated demand pricing system, the more people buy, the higher the price goes automaticly. Which totally sucks IMHO, that's why I hardly shop their anymore for new products, the old standby items are another story, they normally have pretty good prices on those.

[stopthekilling77]

yeah i noticed that too, Newegg was like $30 more than anyone else... but i'm really just going to bite the bullet and still get it on the Egg, cause i want it all to arrive at the same time so i can just put it all together... the extra $30 will be worth it considering i've been waiting a full year to buy a new computer (consider my PIII running @ 1.0Ghz........ yeah.)

[Bio-Hazard]

Man, $30 bucks is like a new SATA DVD RW..........that's a lot of extra cash just to give away, but I'm poor and every $$ has to count.