Will C2D drop in price soon?

I'm guessing no.

Depending on demand and supply would perhaps affect prices.

The quad core, your getting 4 cores, so to me, that's a different classification type of processor.

The only other thing that could affect C2D prices, is if only AMD comes out with something that will perform 20% better. That way their processors should be priced over the C2D or, if price lower, would force C2D prices lower as well.

Doubt it.

Unless the Core 2 Quads or whatever they will be called, are going to be priced the same as Core 2 Duos, then maybe a slight price drop might occur. But, until then, I think the C2D prices will stay about the same, especially with the Core 2 Q-thing Extreme being released first.

And like what Grimmy mentioned, unless AMD comes out with a CPU that is comparable in performance, Intel won't lower the cost of the mainstream CPUs, E6600/E6700 much. Maybe the E6400/E6300, possibly. Oh, and if the E6000/E6100/E6200 (if they exist) do arrive, expect a battle in the low/mid range pricing.

I'm guessing no.

If you have to money for a C2D system then just build it now. No matter when you buy a CPU, it always seems two or three months later prices will drop a bit.

Well the e6600 has dropped in price about $7 in the last week on newegg.com Not exactly a landslide but still moving down steadily. When the price hits $300 I'll buy one.

Different stores or sites might do deals, but Intel has the price pretty much where they want it in order to turn a profit.

Exactly, so buy now so I can buy it in 2-3 months!  

I thought that a price reduction was planned for somewhere in januari...

I read somwhere that intel is going to sell a E4300 with FSB800 in Q1 2007. That could affect prices a little. I doubt it though.

I'm kinda waiting for a price drop too, but its looking like its not gonna happen. However, if I purchase a C2D system, I'm gonna need DDR2 Ram, and I know that the price of that stuff will probably hit the floor about January.

Prices are still sliding down to Intel's MSRP, but don't expect them to go below that anytime soon. Quad-core I hear will be $1200 when it comes out later this month, mainstream version no idea on pricing. When the celeron models of the C2Q come out, then they will probably take over their own respective bands, I don't see why Intel would start cannabalizing their own sales (unlike some stores I know... yeah Wal-mart, I'm looking straight at you).

The C2D's are already below Intel's MSRP on ZipZoomFly and NewEgg, albeit by only a few dollars.

Damn, your right, well who woulda thunk... all the way from 522 for a e6600 down to 315... good for supply and demand.

But they most likely won't slide much more. I'll talk to some of the purchasing people at directron.com and see how much Intel charges for said chips. Probably only 10% less than most e-tailers.

Assuming you're talking about price drops of any significant portion then I'd guess no across the current lineup through the e6700. Now the x6800 on the other hand looks to be at the same price point the first quad will likely come out at or around. I would expect the x6800 to be priced below the first quad-core.

Thats my opinion at least but I can't imagine anyone buying x6800 if the quad cost about the same or less so logic would seem to back up that opinion also.

(edit) Now if Doughbuy is correct about the price being a few hundred dollars over the x6800 at release for the quad then current prices might remain pretty much the same.
I was under the impression from reading several sites info that it would be more around the 1k mark in cost tho but we'll know in less than a month for sure won't we? hehe

I've seen a fall in the price of the E6600 here in the UK since introduction. I bought mine 2 days ago for £207.55 (inc VAT, which is a 17.5% tax) and when they started out they were in the area of £290.00. This is of course, assuming you shop around for a good price, instead of a stupid opportunist price - searching tonight shows the same processor for sale at £312.51 and I remember seeing £600+ prices on eBay right after release when you could buy them at ebuyer for £250.00...

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20060921A7034.html
Doesn't seem like it. E4300 should keep the E6300 over $163 though. Compared to E6300, it has no virtualization, 1.8GHz compared to 1.86GHz, 800 FSB compared to 1066 FSB.

Yeah, the whole trend from intel right now seems to be set the prices, then intro new products at new prices that are below or above existing MSRP's.

I doubt we'll see price drops until AMD has an answer or until supply becomes much greater than demand (perhaps when more of the fabs get off producing P4s/PDs and produce C2D).
Or unless AMD drops prices even more - unlikely.

Yeah, that's why I'm waiting til 1Q07... the E4300 should be one hell of an overclocker with the 9x mult.

Yeah, it would be interesting to see what difference the 266MHz FSB difference would make.

Anandtech did a C2D test with different RAM including DDR 400:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2813&p=6

The DDR 400 RAM's performance is not too shabby comapred to DDR2 533.