Price drop for Q9550 has happend

[wafflehammer]

^^^^

that's a horrible price considering you can still get the Q9450 at microcenter for $5 more...and the Q9400 is the same thing, just half the cache

 

[NightSurge]

To answer you guys' worries about free RAM. Vista sees unused/uncached RAM as wasted RAM so it will allocate as much as possible to the things you are running or have ran recently. Vista constantly reallocates the RAM as needed. It will show up as not much free RAM, but that just means that Vista is doing it's best job to ensure your programs run as fast as possible. It's no issue to worry about.

 

[maroon1]

You can get Q9550 for $319.99 at buy.com

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz Processor - 2.83GHz - 1333MHz FSB - BX80569Q9550/894291 - Buy.com

EDIT: The Q9400 at newegg now comes with free Unreal Tournament 3 game, so it is a good deal for people who still don't have UT3 game