Conroe!!!! Its Here!! In India!!!!

[chesss]

excuse me mods, but oh bhas ki aankh!! I wasn't expecting this at all . conroe has been released in INDIA!! i was't expecting it to come for atleast 4-5 months!!
You have no idea how excited I am. finally my long overdue upgrade from a PIII is here!! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1044023

BANGALORE: Global chip major, Intel Corporation on Thursday unveiled its Core 2 Duo processors in India and appeared upbeat about the prospects of the new processor family in the market.

"India is a country with strong information technology early adopter community," Intel Director, Digital Home Brand Management, Charlotte Lamprecht said.

Highlighting the features of the processors, she said, the industry saw the heart of the computer reinvented like this only after Intel introduced the Pentium processor.

Intel Managing Director, Sales and Marketing (South Asia), Ramamurthy Sivakumar said the processor is an "energy-efficient marvel", packing 291 million transistors yet consuming 40 per cent lower power.

The 10 Intel Core Duo 2 and Intel Core 2 Extreme processors, unveiled on Thursday, are for consumer and business desktop and laptop PCs and workstations, company executives said.

They said the Core 2 Duo processor family consists of five desktop PC processors tailored for business, home, and "enthusiast users", such as high-end gamers, and five mobile PC processors designed to fit the needs of a mobile lifestyle.

Asked what "happens" to the company's Pentium processors, with the launch of Core 2 Duo processors, Lamprecht said Pentium will remain a brand.

Pentium has earned "phenomenal recognition" in India for its "value", she said adding "We are not going to throw that value away."

I guess its only a matter of max 2 weeks, before it is in stores. right?

[tech-geek]

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[montylee]

That's gr8 news for sure but what abt motherboards?
Are motherboards supporting Conroe available in India?

motherboard supporting Intel 975X chipset, P965 chipset, nforce4 Intel edition are available in india,

this is a good news guys, i just hope, Core 2 Duo E6400 prices are smilier to it's $ counterpart, about Rs 11,000+tax

although the real value killer would be E6300 with Intel G965 chipset

[magnet]

well core 2 duo ifu hav money and want an urgent system grab it...or else dell hp r going to buy every peice of it.......
intel wont b producing many c2 d presently inorder to complete there old pent d stock first.....

[LegendKiller]

well that is really good news...

[Pathik]

@gx ll all lga 775 mobos support conroe or only 965 onwards...

all motherboards, which are compatible with Core 2 duo power requirment will support it. The problem is, not many board out there support the new power requirment

Intel 975XBX Rev. 2 & Intel 965 chipset are tailor made for C2D

i looked & for the indian market, i believe, Core 2 duo E6300 with intel D965SS motherboard will rock. Intel boards are sold here, more then any other brand & D965SS board, provides all the features ever thought of, even the onboard graphics is equivalent to Geforce 6200 in features & maybe in performance, remember it is fully Vista Ceritified & can support full DirectX 10 in hardware, via just a driver upgrade

Too bad intel is ditching IDE so soon, there are not any SATA optical drivers, so the only way is to use a SATA HD with Pata optical drive

[magnet]

btw...guys ull need a 550 w power supply......becoz of this vista,c2d and dx 10 stuff........

[Pathik]

@gx wat ll be the approx cost of the combo u suggested....
btw check this out
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...duo-e6300.html
and y did u choose d965 ss only.....
isnt this better d965 wh....

hows this ASUS P5W DH

[montylee]

Originally Posted by gxsaurav

i looked & for the indian market, i believe, Core 2 duo E6300 with intel D965SS motherboard will rock.

Yup, the mentioned combination looks good. I wonder abt the price of this combo in India???

[Brave_Hunt]

That's a good news. Looking forword for the price they'll set for this.

pathiks

D965WH is indeed better, but also costly. For the masses a D965SS is enough, despite of being MATX, U get 5.1 channel HD Audio, & hardly anyone goes for 8.1 channel speakers on onboard audio. Besides, this is for the value catagory, where people usualy don't even buy 5.1 channel speakers.

the onboard graphics are same on both & remember many people don't buy a graphics card at the time of purchasing computer, most of the buyers add one later. For this scenario, D965SS fits best, onboard graphics which is very optimised, sufficiant for Windows Vista, & even light gaming along with a PCI-X X16 slot

I said, this config will be sold the most, most of the buyers are without much knowledge in computers, those who have knowledge, will sure go for higher end components, but this combo will be the one for the masses soon in india.

I don't know anything about the pricing, but judging by the previous combo's of intel such a P4 2.4C+865GBF, & P-D 805 with Intel 945GNT, I would suspect that this combo will be arround 13k

[montylee]

I'll definetely buy this combo if it comes for 13K.
Any idea abt the availability of this combo in Delhi???

just checked the specs of Asus P5W DH motherboard, quite a nice one, but remember, Xbit lab wanted to overclock the CPU, as it can be a good value overclocker, however how many people u see in india overclocking, not much. besides with the lack of overclocking features,the price also reduces, & this is what the general customar in india wants

[TeChRocK]

if available,i will also buy combo under 18k

[montylee]

Asus P5LD2-VM SE and Asus P5LD2-VM with Integrated 945G chipset look good too...

[Pathik]

@gx wen do u think ll this Core 2 duo E6300 + D965SS ll be available in india.....

[akshayt]

1) All core 2 duo's are not conroes. E6300 is allendale, E6600 and up are conroe. Not fully sure about E6400.

2)Most motherboards at the moment may be expensive.

3)At the moment, I don't suggest the majority toupgrade. I think there is stuttering and all at the moment, so first some richies should start using and others should follow suit.

4)Don't forget to get an equivalent graphic card else your games will still be bad.

[Pathik]

@akshayt wat about the onboard intel GMA x3000.... does it support ps2.0,hw tnl,dx10...

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

well i'll wait 3-4 months n then go for a 6600 when the prices drop a bit .

zeeshan.

The waiting never ends, when u will have E6600 arround the corner, u will find the prices of 6700 tempting. Besides, there is hardly any price cuts in C2D this year, if u can find one get it, cos most of the stock is for OEM PC Makers anyway

akshyat

Where did u get that, E6300 is allendale, it a normal Conroe with 4 MB L2 cache physical, but 2 MB disabled during packaging stage. Allendale is a complete different CPU which won't be relesed this year, think of them as Core 2 Duo celerons

If u can buy, & find, then go for C2D

Pathtics

read above the Intel GMA X3000 supports DirectX9c in hardware, that means Pixel & vertex shader 3.0, it is fully programable IGP, so it can be made SM 4.0 compatible in hardware with just a driver upgrade. However it is never meant to be a gaming IGP, it's just made to run Vista aero, Videos, etc at full quality, cos as i said, not everyone needs a graphics card, this is good enough for offices etc

[magnet]

first of all..get this clear the cheapest conroe will b priced ard 12-13k.................and also its board too will b ard 8-10k minimum......and why do u guys forget ram...........u need to get ddr2 rams.........ddr wont work......minimum ddr2 2 gb will push u by another 8k.........

the prices which i have mention are by doing usa rates conversion......and adding some profit......but yup this r all of the cheapest set rates........

also if u can get hand on c2d thats a big deal............dell and hp.....r trying get almost 90% of c2d...........so price of c2d reduction is less untill jan feb next year when quad core launches......

gx also your detail look right......repping u man.........

note::akshayt...way bak also u look to post incomplete info...dude get your stuff clear than post.........all dual core now release are c2d.......whose earlier name was given conroe.............also u can say c2d=pentium 5..........but nuthin sort of pent 5 goin to come........but it actually is p5

the cheapest conroe is $183, thats about Rs 9300+ taxes in India, now add the retailer profit to it, & it sure will be about 10.5k at start, & since C2D is not much available in retail this year, the prices won't come down anytime soon.

Infact, this is a good time to buy Athlon 64 3800+ X2, for Socket 939 & AM2, the prices are down too, & this CPU is now Rs 8.5k only, gives performance only 5% lower then E6300, it is an already proven architecture. All hail AMD price cuts . couple it with a Asus A8N-VM/M2NPV-MX for AM2 motherboard, & u can get a vista premium ready, solid budget system at really good price, well within 14K, u can use normal DDR400 with ASUS A8N-VM or u can buy DDR2 for M2NPV-MX, ddr2 is costly, but since now, both Intel & AMD have made transection to DDR2 only, the prices will rapidly fall down

at start, D965SS will cost about 6.5-7k, due to low availability, but with time, & availability it will come down to 5k in 4 months only


Edit : just inquired, Another option is Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9-RH for Socket 939/GA-M51GM-S2G for AM2

My advice, if u have some more money to buy socket AM2 based system, in case u cannot find C2D then do so, buy socket 939, only if u r tight on budget

[chesss]

According to this discussion over here : http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107031 . e6300 is much better than 3800 AND more importantly ddr can be used with conroe!

first of all..get this clear the cheapest conroe will b priced ard 12-13k.................and also its board too will b ard 8-10k minimum

How did you reach this conclusion? 183$ = Rs. 8500 , now they can't increase its price by 50%. If they do, they are soo evil.

[damnthenet]

Good news. Hope its price is reasonable.

hmm, ASrock motherboard looks nice value, they already have a good value oriented market in India, seems like another very good pair for E6300, cos DDR2 is not widely available anyway

Edit: I won't recomend this board at all, as it lacks vista premium certification (due to onboard graphics only), but a good choice anyway, u can vista standerd UI in it, & upgrade to a better gfx card later

[magnet]

gx i have asus a8ne spare.........so thinking to go with 939 3800+.....nowwill it b vista compatible??????

also my present sys gigabyte 915+p 4 2.66ghz.......how will this work with vista????..i have 1gb ram..wil upgrade to 2gb soon...but ddr again.......

gfx card present 6600gt..will tak good one only after dx 10 launch

[rockthegod]

ne prices related updates ????????????????????

magnet

stick to what u have, what do u intend to do with your PC? as i don't think 915 + P4 2.66 GHz is a bad combo. Which CPU is it? i suppose Pentium D

One thing, if u can get a good deal, in saling this P4 system of yours, then sure sale it, & get a 3800+ X2, if not then leave it, your current system is quite good already