In Q3, 960 and Conroe E6600 will be both at $316. 950 and Conrose E6400 will be both at $241..... Should I buy 9x0 or Conroe? Conroe seems to be good but should I stick to the golden rule of not buying a new technology part in the first year??? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=97609 My eSignal always hangs up when the market is quick. I know that it doesn't support multicore..... which improvement of below can best improve my system bottleneck? File Compression: 11.871 MB/s (+20.5%) File Decompression: 176.380 MB/s (+12%) File Encyption: 73.726 MB/s (+27%) File Decryption: 73.704 MB/s (+39%) Image Decompression: 36.244 MPixels/s (+19%) Audio Compression: 3403.169 KB/s (+12.8%) *Multithreaded Test 1 File Compression: 11.854 MB/s (+18.6%) File Encryption: 73.337 MB/s (+27%) *Multithreaded Test 2 File Decompression: 88.192 MB/s (+14.2%) File Decryption: 37.055 MB/s (+40%) Audio Decompression: 1366.343 KB/s (+17.3%) Image Decompression: 18.134 MPixels/s (+17.2%) 1) Conroe pricing * E6700: 2.66 GHz / FSB 1066/ 4 MB shared L2 cache * E6600: 2.40 GHz / FSB 1066/ 4 MB shared L2 cache * E6400: 2.13 GHz / FSB 1066/ 2 MB shared L2 cache * E6300: 1.86 GHz / FSB 1066/ 2 MB shared L2 cache * E4200: 1.60 GHz / FSB 800/ 2 MB shared L2 cache * Conroe Extreme Edition (XE): Specifications unknown (E6800 most likely) Pricing of the new architecture will be in line with previous processor introductions. The E6700 model will cost $530 at launch, the E6600 will be priced at $316, the E6400 at $241 and the E6300 at $209, sources said. 2) further price down of 9xx in Q3.... Come Q3 and the debut of 'Conroe', the first of Intel's next-generation architecture processors, and the 9xx series' prices will be cut a second time, with the 960 coming in at $316, the 950 at $241, the 940 at $209 and the 920 at $178. The 930 will stay priced at $209, the sources claimed