Intel Drops the Prices of Several CPUs

Hope they don't keep this up. AMD's main thing has been good, cheap quad-cores (Athlon II), and powerful dual-cores (phenomII). If they get the E8400 down...*shivers*.

I hope they keep this up. It's good for competition and will cause a general lowering of prices.

I want a octocore already. Comeon give me a octocore :-)

Uh, what? You want AMD to remain as the cheaper choice just because they're AMD?

come on give us the I7 920 for 150.00 please!!!

Lower the price of an E8600 to 80 bucks and I'll forfeit my AMD system.

Intel does'nt drop prices until Intel feel threatened that Amd pwns. So Lets all pray that amd delivers Phenom III thats an octacore. Then you will see cheap i7's.

A sign that something is about to hit the market. Making room to adjust prices as necessary.

These chips are about to die anyway. ALl newer entry level chips after this year will most likely be atoms for the netbooks, dual core atoms, and then skip sku's all the way to core2duos which will be basic cpus. I think pentium and celeron has had their long run and their demise has long been extended until this year.

It would pave the way for other middle tier cpus in intels lineup like the c2q, core i3, and core 15 to be positioned as the norm/consumer friendly chips while the i7's, and 6-8core chips with the lga1336 will still be high end.

There are already i3 derivatives with the Pentium moniker. The name wont be leaving us for some time.

yeah all these chips are on a dead socket.

woohooo!!!! dropping prices on crappy EOL(end of life) CPU's way to go Intel.

sweet. I'll be picking up an E6500 soon.

Yeah, just how many people outside the tech community use LGA 1156/1366? I still have a pentium D 820 that could use an upgrade, and there's a world of difference a Pentium D and a Wolfdale-based Pentium in terms of heat usage and clock efficiency. Think "double" everything, and you get the idea (half the power consumption/heat production, double the processing power).

And now can we get another update on the best gaming cpu's of the month?

Yeah, but can that motherboard with the PD 820 support a Wolfdale (as in BIOS support)?

ITS BEEN ALMOST A YEAR SINCE THE Q9550 SAW A PRICE DROP, CMON INTEL....


im probably just gonna scrap my lga 775 and get a am3 mobo if the q9550 isnt $150 by the summer

Octacore is a thought that makes me feel all warm and tingly. Hope we see a few before this year is out.

Athlon II x4 620 - $80 ($20 per core!!)
PhII x2 550 BE - $80 !!!
PhII x4 955 BE - $140 !!!

Bring on the price breaks!! I want the PhII x4 955 BE for $140!! Here's on hoping!!

I think the title is a little misleading.

It looks like Intel is introducing two new models (E6600 and E3400), and moving the others downstream. Both look to be attractive products for the cost, especially when you consider the low power use.

People can scream about quad core this and that, but for the average person who surfs, goes on facebook, instant messages, etc..., these products are powerful enough, and come with a very low power use. Quad core isn't necessary for everyone.

Also, most people don't care about the socket the processor is installed on going away, for the simple reason most people don't upgrade processors. I've never seen the point myself. By the time your processor is old, you're probably better off replacing the motherboard too. At least most of the time.

not neccesarraly, if they are using their dominant market share and massive amounts of money to sell their processors at a loss in the hope that amd will go out of buisness trying to compete so that they will be the only one left and they can charge what ever they want then no. it won't be good.

however, I don't think thats the case here, I think they are just clearing stuff out to make room for the i5s and i3s??

AMD can't sit there and go, "well, we're shit, but we're cheap!" if intel through better processes can make processors that are better or as good for cheaper than amd, well, too bad amd, maybe now they will wake up again and try to beat intel at the top end rather than just targeting price brackets that intel don't have covered at the time...

Sadly it seems the core count increase has slowed down lately.

The more cores you try to incorporate on a chip die, that harder it is to maintain good yield.

I'd rather see a 32 nm equivalent of an i7-920 sooner than later.

... LGA 775? Where iz the future of that?

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Hey Intel, how about some last minute 32nm 2.0GHz C2D's?
The C2D (and Celeron/Pentium derivatives) line uses much less power than the LGA 1156 line. Granted you are sacrificing substantial power, even at identical clocks.
I hate the Atom, I'd rather a 32nm ULV C2d...

And honestly, a 2.0GHz C2D E4400 still does just fine for gaming. (No Crysis at max settings, of course.)

So, 2GHz 32nm ULV C2D on a 10" netbook anyone?

Whilst I agree that seeing a 32 NM Core2 CPU would be bad-ass, Intel will never make one... at least not for socket 775.

About the Atom- it's an economy chip. With what little power it consumes, it's a great chip if you look at the big picture. A CPU that's a little slower that a P4 that sips the power. 5 years ago, the Atom would have been Heaven sent; a P4 that does not need a fan, and uses a fraction of the power. 5 years is not a long time (at least historically) in terms of CPU design.

FTR, I wouldn't buy an Atom system... I just think it's nice to have the ultra-low power option if you don't need the speed.

this is shame in the name of price dropping..learn something from amd u losers greedy intels

Technically, the Skt1366 Hyperthreaded i7's are octocore. Aleit 4 cores are logical cores, but the i7 can process 8 threads.

Again....

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I think he wants AMD to survive, because if they have to drop prices to keep pace with Intel it will further cut into their already slim margins.