Intel cuts desktop processor prices
The price for Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 has been reduced below $200 USD for the first time.
Probably the biggest news is the ever-popular Core 2 Quad Q6600's first appearance below $200. Intel reduced the price of its 2.4GHz quad-core part by 16 percent in April, bringing it down to $224 in 1,000 unit quantities – now it's available for just $193.
Other price cuts include the 3.16GHz Core 2 Duo E8500, which has had a 31 percent reduction in price from $266 to $183, while the 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo E8400 has been discounted by 11 percent to $163.
Finally, the Core 2 Duo E7200 has had its price cut from $133 to $113, which represents a 15 percent price drop. This chip is a relatively new addition to Intel's lineup and comes clocked at 2.53GHz on a 1,066MHz front side bus and packs 3MB of shared L2 cache.
We can expect these price drops to roll out at online retailers over the next couple of days if they haven't already come into effect.
Do any of the price drops give you that itching feeling? Tell us in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums Replyim impressed.
Only the itching Nehalem feeling. :)))
-dual cores are useless, look, they drop like crazy
-quad cores are affordable, buy my affordable quad core.
Quite! Dammit there I was thinking of an upgrade, then I thought I'll wait til Nehalem, and now they tempt me again with price slashery. Quit toying with me, Intel!
...its worth the wait so far, but with Nehalem around the corner.......... hmmm.....
Ouch.
During my salesman day at best buy i think i've never sold a single freaking Phenom based PC. Nobody wants them because they were told by some idiots that AMD's are bad CPU. I then have to tell them that whatever they heard is bullshit and that the only thing in which they would notice a difference is if they play games. Of course it's more complicated than that and Phenoms are obviously slower than C2D's in virtually everything, but it's not as if their noob minds would ever realize it while playing freaking solitaire on a sunday afternoon
stupid noobs
I find this actually kinda confusing. It must have killed him almost instantly, or the muscle contractions from the shock would have stopped him peeing and therefore broken the contact.
Did you not know? AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to safeguard you from spyware and hackers. Pft. :)
I may have to pick myself up a quad-core
Electricity does move rather fast.
I'm hearing that the Q6600 has dropped to $199 on Newegg though, so I'd expect to see them drop below £110 inc VAT here.
Regarding peeing on the tracks: we do that in this country? Didn't know that, though they were petrol/deisol/kerosine here, but yes electricity is a bit nippy and I can imagine that so much current passing through ones giblets is not going to end well, poor sod
Sweatshops, classic.
And the peeing just goes to show you that weird things occur and if it weren't for the tech websites i read i would never know about it.
Believe it or not, I heard another salesman say that to a client... That's why I hated this job, it was all about who could spit the biggest BS to the nubest clients
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=154803
*cough*