Quote Originally Posted by M.Beier View Post
1149 USD, that is DIRT cheap, here, we dont expect that any stores get them less than 1299 USD at any time before successor is launched, you Americans just got freaking low prices on hardware in generel.

Cheapest i7-990X in the country is 1255 USD at the moment =)
Microcenter is traditionally below newegg, by a good amount, almost $50 USD with the 2600K and 2500K. Id expect higher on newegg if MC is down-pricing them, of course Intel might ask MC to have the same price as newegg, and then MC will drop the cost more. MC usually also doesn't sell more than 1 CPU per household, and if they do you have to buy a whole systems, that is what they count on, just like laptops or desktop PCs, they charge close to cost hoping that ppl will accessorize.