Why has Intel not lowered prices for the 600's?

[Eastcoasthandle]

I have though on this today as I pondered between the 660 and 670 series. Most of the 900s are reduced already with expectation of further reductions later on this year. However, the 600 remains unchanged. Here is some food for thoughts
-660 and 670 series beat most of the D series (up to 950) in some if not most of the benchmarks
-660 and 670 series can be overclocked higher
-660 and 670 series are a bit hotter and require a lot of cooling vs. the D series

Can it be said that in some cases the 660 and 670 cpus are better then the D? If so why are they not trying to improve on it? Would it be true that the 660 and 670 series would cannibalize sales of their beloved D if the prices were lowered?

[grimREEFER]

umm, well hyperthreading is no match for having multiple cores, and intel has abandoned single core cpu's afaik.
having 2 cores can give a big boost in performance, soon the pentium d 805 will beat the 670 across the board.

[lowfat]

They sell the 9X0s cheaper to likely get rid of stock.

[Nasgul]

I don't recall seeing anywhere about a price reduction for 6xx CPUs. And in this Chart Right Here (http://www.intel.com/intel/finance/pricelist/June_4_06_1ku_Price_web.pdf), it shows another price reduction on June 4 for some 9xx models, I didn't know that.

As for 660 and 670 being better than Preslers? Not sure about that one in general but personally I think Preslers are better overall. I had a 660 and sold it because I plan on getting a 960, sure the 660 was plenty fast but it's obvious that it's better to have two actual cores than one actual & virtual.

Overclocking? Preslers overclock better and run cooler using less Vc., my 660 didn't OC to 4.5ghz with less than 1.48v, yet the 960 I've seen does that at 1.32Vc.