Question about price cuts

[nightscope]

I saw somewhere on here that there are going to be price cuts for AMD and Intel. AMD on April 7th, and Intel on April 20th. Are these dates accurate? If so, what kind of price cuts are we looking at? And on which models?

Thanks, and sorry if this is a repeated question.

 

[level101]

I heard that the Q6600 will drop to $229 & the Q6700 will drop to $270.
Not sure about anything else.

 

[level101]

found this at http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5698&Itemid=1

"Intel plans it usual price cut that will affect mostly the old 65nm parts. On April 20th Intel will cut Core 2 Quad Q6700 from the current $527 suggested retail price to $270. The super popular Q6600 at 2.4GHz will drop from $270 to $229. At the same time, Intel plans to introduce its Core 2 Duo E8300 45nm based CPU with 6MB cache and 2.83GHz clock and it will start selling it for $169.

The Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz CPU with 2MB cache will drop from $139 to $119. Pentium Dual core E2200 with 1MB cache and 2.2GHz clock speed will drop from current $87 to $77. Dual Core E2180 clocked at 2.0GHz clock will drop from current $77 to $67.

The last two price cuts will affect the Celeron 440 at 2.0GHz and 512KB cache, it will drop from current $54 to a new low of $45. The last planned price cut affects the Celeron 430 at 1.8GHz 512KB cache and FSB 800MHz. It will drop from current $45 to $35

All this is expected on April 20th."

 

[satanpro]

http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=6487
new prices list (if it's trustworthy)

 

[nightscope]

Oh, so it's not dropping prices on everything... Not like last year's price cuts.

Now what about AMD?

Thanks

 

[chise1]

damn, so those qx9650's are still around $1030 (newegg)... oh well, i'll be more than content with one of the other 45nm when i upgrade

 

[albundy2]

extreme cpu's only drop when a new extreme cpu launches. or the company that produces them get's their but handed to them...
*cough amd cough*

 

[chookman]

The Q6700 will be a nice buy now considering the CPU should be a higher bin that any Q6600... good for overclocking