Sounds like there are two good reasons to buy a quad-core now. The first is that the multi-core alpha/beta of TG is out next week and the second is that Intel are cutting the prices of some of it's quad-core cpu by up to 50%
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9924121-64.html
that's some good news :)
Just bought me q6700 for about 190 euros recently. Could have got it for 180 tho.
Well running but I wish I could get my hands on that multithreaded TG2.
whats the difference between X3230 and Q6700??
both have same price and same speed
the bus I think, though it could just be the names.
The 'X' stands for Xeon and is generally meant for the server-business rather than desktop-business like the 'Q's.
There are some differences in heat-production and flexibility for coding (if I'm correct).
For TG a Q6700 would be very nice, unless you really would like the have 2 quadcores in one machine, then you should go for 2 xeon-cpu's because dual-motherboards for a Q6700 or Qxxxx isn't available.