Monday, April 21st 2008
Intel Drops 65nm Processor Prices
Intel slashed today the prices of its 65nm Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad Q6600/Q6700 Kentsfield processors. The tray price of the Q6600, which has been the universal quad-core in Intel's line-up for more than a year, was dropped 16% from $266 to $224. More important than the Q6600 drop, Q6700 which had a tray price of $530 now costs $266 - almost 50% cheaper.
Other price reductions include the 65nm, 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo E6850 (-31% to $183), which now matches the price of the 45nm E8400 (3.0GHz) as well as the Pentium E2200 (-12% to $74), the E2180 (-14% to $64), the Celeron 560 (-20% to $107), the Celeron 550 (-20% to $86), the Celeron 440 (-17% to $44) and the Celeron 430 (-23% to $34).
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Other price reductions include the 65nm, 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo E6850 (-31% to $183), which now matches the price of the 45nm E8400 (3.0GHz) as well as the Pentium E2200 (-12% to $74), the E2180 (-14% to $64), the Celeron 560 (-20% to $107), the Celeron 550 (-20% to $86), the Celeron 440 (-17% to $44) and the Celeron 430 (-23% to $34).
38 Comments on Intel Drops 65nm Processor Prices
Edit: Nevermind, those are the Mobile Celerons they are talking about.
Just bought one!
This means my q6600 is for sale!
btw i dont think the prices have fallen in teh retail channels yet.
the q6600 retail was 249 > now 229
We have some crap prices in Europe:
In Romania for example, the q6600 goes for 330$ ("special price" they say)! The q9300 is even more expensive, at 380$...
I hope this price drop will make itself felt here also...
Its about time they dropped the q6700 down!!!!!!!!
Ive been dyin for a 10 multi for over a year now!Ill sell you my q6600 for 200US and ship it what ever it costs.......
My q6600 runs at 8 multi with a 450 FSB all day long. I can run it at 485FSB but the temps creep into the 60s. And I dont really like that.ME TOO!!
That would be a great rig setup!
**You probably wouldnt benefit that much from a q6700, but getting a 9800GTX over your g92 GTS is the same as upgrading that proc
They are both using the same core structures, just different clock speeds.
Id personally go for the bigger proc, I love my CPU speeds! Especially because you could easily get your g92 to GTX speeds
AMD needs to jump up to the next level soon or I could see the processor division loosing its market control even faster than they are !
I did see the tri-core procs out now, thats probably gonna help with alot of bestbuy purchases.
But AMD has pretty much no control of the performance market anymore :( I used to love AMD