Intel Core 2 Duo Price Drop In September

[nemrod]

Can this be confirmed with any certainty or is this just hearsay that the price cuts are only going to be for C2Q's on July 22 and C2D's September 2nd?

C2D and C2Q on july 22
(but new c2d with 1333MHz fsb)

http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=4976

[CoolZone]

waiting for the penryn q6600

[Stuperman]

Intel price list for 1K tray: E6700 = $316, Q6600 = $530

E6700 = $316 shipped @ ZZF

Q6600 = $531.90 shipped @ ZZF

Much like gas stations, they'll sell the gas at cost to get you in the store.

QFT, it seems many people missed this, with the CND$ almost at Parity, here comes quadcors for less than $300

[nemrod]

waiting for the penryn q6600

You will probably never see a penryn q6600. First will be xeon, then beginning of 2008, this will be the xtrem part of desktop, and perhaps in one year you will have Q7700 for 266$...

... but it depend probably of what processor is sale by AMD...

[EternityZX9]

C2D and C2Q on july 22
(but new c2d with 1333MHz fsb)

http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=4976

Ah, so the processors with 1333 FSB will be arriving on the 22nd?

How much of a difference will that 1333 FSB (compared to 1066) make in gaming performance? Anyone know?

[[XC] gomeler]

Nothing when you use a P35 board and the 1066 chips get a "free" overclock to 1333

[EternityZX9]

Nothing when you use a P35 board and the 1066 chips get a "free" overclock to 1333

Huh? What does that mean?

[nemrod]

Huh? What does that mean?

That it is probably better for overclocker to have 1066 cpu than 1333MHz. And that the 1066 fsb isn't a big memory limitation:
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/hwdb.php?ti...050&rid=753256
So you will gain few and could perhaps overclock less.

But they should come with new core revision G0 and on this point that could help:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=E6850

[EternityZX9]

That it is probably better for overclocker to have 1066 cpu than 1333MHz. And that the 1066 fsb isn't a big memory limitation:
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/hwdb.php?ti...050&rid=753256
So you will gain few and could perhaps overclock less.

But they should come with new core revision G0 and on this point that could help:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=E6850

Thanks for the info...maybe I'll buy a new processor now...was going to wait for these prices cuts, but obviously doesn't look like that will matter much.

Edit: Well, maybe I'll wait if the new G0 stepping E6850 can o/c to 4.2 on air!

[Dainas]

Thought it was going to be mid June for the Quad price drops. Well even if that was Intel's intention; I would not be surprised that they would backpedal a month or so considering the whole reason they were going to do it, is still lying face down in the mud until the end of summer at best.

[dinos22]

Edit: Well, maybe I'll wait if the new G0 stepping E6850 can o/c to 4.2 on air!

common now the firt G0 steppings you are looking at are all cherry picked

if you get 3.9/4GHz stable on late July stock i would consider it to be a VERY good chip indeed

[bloodbanger]

okay,now i'm confused.So the Quads go down in price in July,and if you're looking for a E6850,they go down in prices in September?

[freeloader]

(Core 2 Quad Q6600 - 2.4 GHz- will descend to $266)

Has there ever been a better deal than this? this has bound to be the best bang per$ cpu ever

Definitely the deal of this year! I'll grab two of them when the price drops...

[EternityZX9]

common now the firt G0 steppings you are looking at are all cherry picked

if you get 3.9/4GHz stable on late July stock i would consider it to be a VERY good chip indeed

4Ghz is completely acceptable for me

[EternityZX9]

okay,now i'm confused.So the Quads go down in price in July,and if you're looking for a E6850,they go down in prices in September?

No, the E6850 will cost ~$266 on July 22nd (as Dinos22 told me).

[OpTioN]

I already got a E6600 now, so what I want next is a Penryn...

*drool*

[Chewbenator]

1000 Batch prices are usually close to retail. Everyone said that Conroe's would be above batch price, and because of availability they were, but two weeks after the launch they were near batch prices. With Q6600s readily available the price should be right about where the batch prices are. Sticking with my rev1 ds3, so this is probably my next cpu, but not till next year.

[bloodbanger]

Right now,at least here in Belgium you pay around 515 euro's for a Q6600.Pricetags were(after the 1st price-cuts in April)530$ for the Q6600.Normally around here for hardware it's 1$=1Euro.So 515 euro's is still under retail price for 1000 pieces

[adamsleath]

The Core 2 Duo E6540's price isn't yet known, but the E6550 is said to be set to be priced at $163. The E6750 will apparently come in at $183 and the E6850 at $266. That compares to the current top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo E6700, priced now at $530, though it's expected to fall to $316 on 22 April.
Q3 is also expected to see the arrival of the 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo E4500 - another new roadmap edition - at $133. Q2's 2GHz E4400, which will also debut at $133, will see its price cut to $113 when the faster chip arrives.

old news but it may still apply.


...but; is that 266 price for a G0 step q6600 or the current version??



i think this table has been posted numerous times.

Penryn article:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Inte...ors/1176843188

“What you’ll see starting at the end of this year,” he told one analyst, “with the beginning of the 45nm shipments are derivatives of that microarchitecture, shrunk if you will to 45nm, with some new instructions, with some new feature sets, with some larger cache, and with some faster clock speed. All of that combines to give us a nice boost in performance...as well as a significant decrease in die size.”

and with Otellini touting performance first and foremost with respect to Penryn, does this mean the end of price cuts? More to the point, does Intel expect customers to pay a premium for Penryn?

The answer, from Otellini and CFO Andy Bryant, was a firm, definitive...maybe. While at least four questions directly inquired about the possibility of higher price points, and even more alluded to it, the most telling response came about 20 minutes into the conference from Bryant: “If you think back over the last year, starting [in the middle of] last year when the new products [Core 2 Duo] were introduced into the desktop, server, and mobile segments, we started to see our products differentiate themselves from the competitor [AMD]. As time passes, and we extend those products into the product stack, we think we have more than just price to compete on. So we find ourselves in a better position than we were in a year ago, we think [things] held up pretty well in the first quarter, and we’ve raised margin percentage for the year.”

http://www.behardware.com/news/8785/...nsumption.html
this article seems to say that pricecuts to G0 step QUADS will occur in September

bear in mind that what articles say and what intel actually does and when may not be the same

[Bounc3y]

time for an upgrade soon

[elec999]

I guess for my birthday I will get a quad core.
Thanks

[adamsleath]

who knows?; more stepping revisions may occur; it's up to intel to decide what it actually does, or not

[clayton]

I would love a cheap low power consumption-fast-Quad Core.
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SUZUKI GSR600

[mstp2009]

I would love a cheap low power consumption-fast-Quad Core.

Penryn FTW.

[Kurz]

I am wondering if there will be a way to modify these G0 and beyond chips to downgrade to 1066 strap. I could be way off base though I think I remember a mod that allowed current core 2 duos chips to use 1333 FSB.