It's kind of like a clearance sale.

price cuts are always welcomed

Sweet!

How about the C2D 8x00? No?

Figures.

Not much of a price cut but they're getting there.

hmm, just curious, but why would anyone get a C2Q 9300 over a C2Q 9400, when they are the same price on the chart? same with the c2q 8400/8300?

I hope they put down the prices for E5200 as well. When will this materialize (Newegg)?

i can finally get that Celeron that i've always wanted

I find it interesting that the Core 2 Duo 8x00 series CPUs are NOT listed there.

Though it looks like drops of $20 to $33 on their higher end chips in that chart. So those are half way decent discounts.

Although I can't wait for i3 & i5 chips to get released, in hopes that this might also bring about price drops on the i7 line.

Yeah but...would they still be able to play crysis?

getting toward the end of the life of the Core2 and similar (S775) range....

While an avid AMD user i am, i'd have to admit they are getting rather close to the Phenom II's... kinda scary for AMD.

Depends where you are benching in and oc or not.

Too bad this is more of stuff i would buy for someone else then myself, LGA775 upgrade path is a bit limited with it being more or less dead now

Yeah, C2D E7500 IS on the list so conspicuous by absence is E8xxx

My guess is they're still selling like hotcakes at the current prices in some markets and/or Intel thinks there will still be plentiful demand for these 'budget' processors after i5 is introduced, (i5 being not-so-cheap as many may have imagined in that case).

Maybe another price cut and I'll be able to keep my rig going for a little longer than my intended replacement date of Spring 2011 with a new quad-core.

Making way for LGA 1156. Not good news for AMD though.

Does it bother anyone else that there is a Pentium named E6300 now? Would it really have been that hard to avoid other Conroe-based processor numbers?

The new Athlon II 240-250 are a huge bang for the buck. They're a bit more powerfull than the E5400 equal with the new "E6300" and cheaper, also consume less.

It's more of a SOS move from intel. Don't forget about the massive coverage on the 550-720BE and their mutant ability.

aznguy0028 :
hmm, just curious, but why would anyone get a C2Q 9300 over a C2Q 9400, when they are the same price on the chart? same with the c2q 8400/8300?

They are actually the same processor.

There was an earlier article here on Tom's that explained the whole clock speed issue with manufactured blocks of processors and which ones get which speeds.

In the case of each of these two sets, I suspect the manufacturer's engineering assessment of the two lines of cpu's was that they were functionally identical, stable for overclocking to the same final speed, and at this point enough pc-savvy people were aware of it that made no sense to try to make a couple extra bucks on the number difference as most folks were buying the cheaper of the two and running up the speeds.

They'd drop one number line completely but big box folks like HP, Dell, and Lenovo still make a couple extra bucks selling the "faster" cpu's to less cpu-aware folks who just buy whatever they are convinced "looks cool" at Best Buy.

I want a Core 2 Quad with native virtualization for under $100.00. That is the benchmark. I got one (on sale, without virtualization at Microcenter) but that isn't the standard...

Those prices are still outrageous considering i5 @2.66ghz is supposed to be $199. Intel what are you thinking? Nobodies going to buy these old s775 processors when you can get a faster X4 940 for $175!!

"Nobodies going to buy these old s775 processors when you can get a faster X4 940 for $175!!"

Well...except for all the folks still using 775 motherboards and who can't afford to cough up a wad for a new i7 / i5 board plus cpu or for the x940 AND a motherboard.

It's just a matter of wallet math.

Say...I got an old p4, Pentium D, or early Core 2 system and no more than $200 to spend. I can still get a newer cpu, a little bit better video card, and maybe even more memory - enough to run Windows 7. Office 2007, and surf the net.

True. I think I'm gonna pick up a E5200 (if it drops too) to play with. I got an old E6300 (65nm) but I have no real upgrade path, just 65nm cpu's only.

That's why I got an E7400 to go on the ASROCK board I originally had a P4 650 on.

Make sure your board supports 45nm cpu's with that fsb. If your still running a p4, likely it doesnt.

It's an ASROCK 4 Core Dual SATA II rated for up to Quad 6600, so I'm cool. I've had it up an running (save for a blown OCZ power supply) for about 6 months.

I bought it to keep using old AGP video cards (a Visiontek x1550 and an 9800 AIW Pro - and no, the TV program has crashed permanently - defeating the purpose of buying the board in the first place).

As soon as I can negotiate it with the wife, I'm upgrading to PCI 2.0.

Core I5 must be coming sooner than expected.

Yay!
These would have been useful 6 months ago to me though... Now like hell Im going anything less than i5 or i7.

AMD, what`s your response... Don`t die on us, Intel needs some x86 competition... (Though IBM could always join the game and absolutely wipe everyone, except not x86.)