cpu pricing

[mtstans]

I'm looking at getting a intel 6750 cpu. However when I've been pricing it. I noticed that the models below this one are sometimes more expensive or at the same price with this chip. ie 6600 chip etc....What gives? Is there something I am missing? And also I noticed that the 1 model above this chip the 6850 is over 100 bones more on average it seems. Why the larger gap in price on that with little performance for that margin?

Any insight to this?

 

[dragonsprayer]

6750 is great chip it runs cooler then the 6600 but the same performance the best deal is the 6420 you can crank it up to same 3.25-3.5ghz range

same chips different name - like easter eggs - each is different color but bascially they are the same inside

they taste about the same too - 3.4ghz

 

[mtstans]

so all these chips are the same chip then but just set at different factory core speeds? THen why the price variations?

 

[skittle]

where are you getting your prices?

 

[zenmaster]

Actually, the E6420 is not the same chip at all.
It's built using the older L2 stepping.
The G0 Stepping runs cooler and OCs much higher.

This is not to say the E6420 is a bad chip, it's a very good chip but not as good as the E6760. The E6600 really has no place at the moment based on it's pricing.

Basically Intel released newer better chips at a competitve price, but did not drop the price on the older chips. They will simply be phased out eventually.

 

[mtstans]

hmm makes since I guess. from many of the top and well known online vendors.....all of them seem to show similiar pricing....I can understand them being phased out...but still doesn't explain wy some of the lower performing chips are same price or more expensive than the 6750 on the same site....oh well...life's greatest mystery