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New Intel 6-core CPU ‘due mid-July’

Published on 5th July 2010 by Clive Webster

Reports say that Intel is due to launch a mid-range Gulftown CPU very soon

DigiTimes is reporting that Intel is due to shake up its processor line-up this month, with new CPUs and some price cuts. The three new models are reported to be the 6-core Core i7-970 at $885, the 2.8GHz quad-core Core i5-760 at $205 and the quad-core Core i5-870S (a power-efficient processor) for $351.

Three new CPUs will launch at the end of this month - the Core i3-560 ($138), the Pentium E6800 ($86) and the Celeron E3500 ($53) – while a new Pentium E5700 chip will launch ‘in early August’ for $75.

The report also states that Intel will introduce a range of price cuts to promote interest and sales. A few low-end CPUs will drop in price ‘for mid-July’ while a larger batch of cheap CPUs will get price cuts ‘in mid-October’. Among the highlights for the cuts are the Core i3-540 which will drop from $133 to $117 in mid-July, and the Core i3-530 which is set to also cost $117 rather than $138 from mid-October. The LGA1366 Core i7-950 is set for a price crash in August, from $562 to just $294.

These prices are for CPUs bought in trays of 1,000, so expect some markup when the new CPUs arrive or the price-cuts hit. See below for a summary of the new CPUs and the price cuts due for existing processors.

CPU model	Old price	New price	Socket	Cores (physical + logical)	Frequency
July
Core i7-970	N/A	885	LGA1366	4+4	3.2GHz?
Core i5-760	N/A	205	LGA1156	4+0	2.8GHz?
Core i5-870S	N/A	351	LGA1156	4+4	2.93GHz?
Core i3-540	133	117	LGA1156	2+2	2.93GHz
Pentium E6600	84	75	LGA1156	2+0	3.06GHz
Pentium E5500	75	64	LGA1156	2+0	2.8GHz
August
Pentium E5700	N/A	75	LGA1156	2+0	2.3GHz?
Core i3-560	N/A	138	LGA1156	2+2	3.33GHz?
Pentium E6800	N/A	86	LGA1156	2+0	3.33GHz?
Celeron E3500	N/A	53	LGA1156	2+0	2.7GHz?
Core i7-950	562	294	LGA1366	4+4	3.06GHz
October
Core i3-550	138	117	LGA1156	2+2	3.2GHz
Pentium E6700	86	75	LGA1156	2+0	3.2GHz
Pentium E5700	75	64	LGA1156	2+0	3GHz?
Celeron E3400	53	42	LGA1156	2+0	2.6GHz

Got your eye on something from that list? Let us know in the forums.

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13eightyfour 5th July 2010, 10:26

so by the end of october the i3-540 and 550 will be the same price? bit of an odd decision. Nice to see lower prices though, i can see the new prices hitting AMDs cheaper chips quite hard.

Pete J 5th July 2010, 10:27

If you're going to spend $885 on a 970, you may as well go all out and pick up the 980x for $1000 as I assume the 970 has a locked multiplier.

P.S. the table needs to be corrected; you've listed the 970 as having 4 cores :).

Phalanx 5th July 2010, 10:28

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the 6-core Core i7-970 at $885

God how I wish they would convert directly to GBP.

Zero_UK 5th July 2010, 10:45

are the Pentium's now being launched on 1156?=\

to be honest, it's pretty damn stupid half these CPU's. E.g. the i5 760 possible 2.8ghz. It's just a fricken i5 750. But, I guess price drops are always nice.

wuyanxu 5th July 2010, 10:48

Celeron E3500, budget king? 5GHz on air while costing less than £50?

Guinevere 5th July 2010, 10:50

Your chart says the 970 is 4+4 core CPU, but the text says it's a 6 core. So is it 4+4 or 6+6?

proxess 5th July 2010, 10:55

Please bit-tech can you present us with the prices in GBP and EUR and maybe JYEN directly according to the post day's exchange rate? Or get some sort of dynamic system the updates those values with value fluctuation?

rickysio 5th July 2010, 11:11

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Originally Posted by proxess
Please bit-tech can you present us with the prices in GBP and EUR and maybe JYEN directly according to the post day's exchange rate? Or get some sort of dynamic system the updates those values with value fluctuation?

Is it so hard to google?

Cyberpower-UK 5th July 2010, 11:20

This showed up this morning, something tells me it's one of the CPUs on the list.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4762956439_9de9c1297a_b.jpg

Fizzban 5th July 2010, 11:52

A little confusing that some processors start with an E but are LGA1156. Take the E6600 for example. There is a LGA775 processor of that name already. Intel sure do like to be difficult. That or the chart is wrong.

andrew8200m 5th July 2010, 12:34

If this is the case I may have to see if i can get one.. can get 980Xs at £680inc so hopefully this will make it £500inc.. far better for my pocket :)

Andy

snootyjim 5th July 2010, 13:09

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Originally Posted by rickysio
Quote:
Originally Posted by proxess
Please bit-tech can you present us with the prices in GBP and EUR and maybe JYEN directly according to the post day's exchange rate? Or get some sort of dynamic system the updates those values with value fluctuation?

Is it so hard to google?

And completely pointless since the prices never work out according to exchange rates.

Cyberpower-UK 5th July 2010, 13:52

it should drop into the i7 960 price bracket and the 960 will go EOL or drop a bit.

javaman 5th July 2010, 18:12

Hopefully the phenom II 955 will drop to remain competive. Would be a nice upgrade for me

JAMF 5th July 2010, 18:22

So what about Sandybridge and the new 2011 pin socket?

Ross1 6th July 2010, 13:24

Thats a shame. as i said on the i7 980x review:

"i wonder how much the i7 970 will roll in at... that appears to be the first 32nm six core non extreme edition on the roadmap. Its probably not worth worrying about for me, even at £400 that would be a lot to stomach for a CPU."

What im interested in is how much of intels pricing reflects their costs, and how much of it is because there is no competition for the premium/performance/enthusiast CPU's, so they can really ramp the prices up at the high end.

Krayzie_B.o.n.e. 6th July 2010, 21:37

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Originally Posted by proxess
Please bit-tech can you present us with the prices in GBP and EUR and maybe JYEN directly according to the post day's exchange rate? Or get some sort of dynamic system the updates those values with value fluctuation?

Are you serious? Currency Converter! There's an App for that! or better yet GOOGLE it. I'm just happy Bit-Tech used USD instead of Russian Rubles.

I'm preparing to upgrade and jump off the sinking AMD ship so the Core i7 950 price drop has me very happy. Sorry AMD but your too slow, great prices though.

lacuna 7th July 2010, 09:52

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Originally Posted by snootyjim
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Originally Posted by rickysio
Quote:
Originally Posted by proxess
Please bit-tech can you present us with the prices in GBP and EUR and maybe JYEN directly according to the post day's exchange rate? Or get some sort of dynamic system the updates those values with value fluctuation?

Is it so hard to google?

And completely pointless since the prices never work out according to exchange rates.

No, but you can you get a rough idea by taking the current price in Sterling and reducing by the percentage indicated by the table.

e.g. it is stated that the i3-530 will reduce from $138 to $117 = 15% reduction. Current UK price is ~£100 so the October reduction should bring it down to £85, in theory.

kingjohn 8th July 2010, 03:39

youd be lucky to see any, theyl be out of stock before you can sneeze, but just in case i might wait a bit and see what turns up , wait too long though the economy will probably sneeze and land in bed for 12 months .

Tasslehoff 12th July 2010, 12:08

So have intel gone back to using core2 product names instead of the newer i7 i5 denotations

If so it will make it a lot harder for to select a new processor

GravitySmacked 12th July 2010, 13:36

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Originally Posted by Tasslehoff

If so it will make it a lot harder for to select a new processor

Just when you thought it couldn't get anymore confusing.

Jamerio 13th July 2010, 01:52

What a rip off, I have been waiting a few months to see if Intel were going to reduce the price of the 980x, and its still overpriced by a mile. I do 3D rendering and so I need as much power as possible, but seeing as this "CHEAPER CPU" is still the best part of 600 pounds, it means you can actually buy TWO 930 pc's for the price of "ONE" i7 970 or 80 and get more performance between the two.

Intel are so greedy, I might go with the 1090T AMD just to spite them, the perfromance is right up there with the i7930 and while I wanted the x58 platform for the eventual drop in price, its clear that its not going to come down to ra easonable price until 2011.

Cheaper Ram and Motherboards. AMD here I some, been with INtel since 2006. Finally had it with their tight ass attitude. I feel constantly conned by their cipsets and ram BS.

So long Intel. Hello AMD.

javaman 13th July 2010, 12:20

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Originally Posted by Jamerio
What a rip off, I have been waiting a few months to see if Intel were going to reduce the price of the 980x, and its still overpriced by a mile. I do 3D rendering and so I need as much power as possible, but seeing as this "CHEAPER CPU" is still the best part of 600 pounds, it means you can actually buy TWO 930 pc's for the price of "ONE" i7 970 or 80 and get more performance between the two.

Intel are so greedy, I might go with the 1090T AMD just to spite them, the perfromance is right up there with the i7930 and while I wanted the x58 platform for the eventual drop in price, its clear that its not going to come down to ra easonable price until 2011.

Cheaper Ram and Motherboards. AMD here I some, been with INtel since 2006. Finally had it with their tight ass attitude. I feel constantly conned by their cipsets and ram BS.

So long Intel. Hello AMD.

Cut of your nose despite your face? You pay a top whack for "the best" and Intels prices have been higher than AMD for some time, thats nothing new. Intels a business, they're hardly gonna "hand out processors" when they can earn a large profit on them. I would hardly say they're totally a rip off tho, look at how well they perform compared to dual xenons. Thats what theyre priced against. You can also expand your argument further, why not just get 2 athlon quad core based machines they're both together will perform similarly to a single i7 920/930 and together are around the same price aswell?
Its simple, you pay more to have everything in one box at considerably lower power consumption.

Jamerio 15th July 2010, 17:00

I use my pc's for rendering 24/7 for days at time, I don't want it running at a huge overclock, in which case, the AMD X6 offers equal or better performance upto 4 ghz than a 17 930.

Plus its a lot cheaper to when you factor in ram and mobo, plus I'm making my own tiny little stand against Intels tactics, which have not gone unnoticed by the wider world if the fines they have received have anything to do with it.

Intel just care about domination and market share. They have no soul to the company. That is important to me.

Sloth 21st July 2010, 18:46

Is there any chance for an i5-760 review? I know it's just one clock up, but the 930 got a review. Would be nice to just get a professional look at it, see if there's any slight overclocking boost to it. It's $10 more on Newegg at the moment so if the two overclock to the same level then it'd be a pointless item, but if it OCs better that'd be nice to know.