Intel Processor Price Cuts for July 2010

No cut on the i5 750...

if only amd zosma has been released. price vs performance, ill go for amd........... hands down..

old news

@ atdhe i think they will eol the 750, because intel doesnt like to sell quads that cheap

Aww... I was hoping the 950 would get a price cut with the intro of the 970.

Is it me or is the 970 weird that it has 6 cores, when they came out with a 975 that was quad core.

With those cuts, I'm probably never going to get a quad core for my LGA 775.

AMD better look out.....the 870 and 760 are surprisingly good VFM now.....

i quit on waiting for a price cut on those... getting an amd setup is just as much as getting a q9650, ima wait a little longer, and upgrade when usb 3.0 is all out

... still too expensive

so nothing on the 930, best deal I got on my new build was the i7 930 for 200 at microcenter

what about 775, i got one sitting here waiting for an upgrade but prices havent changed c2q

I've been watching the C2Q9s waiting for a price drop. Their prices have been flat for over a year now and I wonder what's supporting them. Now I can get an i7 for cheaper? That's good but still disappointing because I'd really prefer the drop-in upgrade.

I hope the 870 gets even cheaper in a couple years, if I need to upgrade from my i5 750 that'll be great.

if you're still holding on your 775 mobo and waiting for a greatly priced c2q... give it up already, your update path lies on either 1366 or 1156... or go amd altogether

I still can't complain on my c2q q6600 anyways... but I'm really considering to go amd on my next computer

Intel are feeeling the pinch put on by AMD in value market!
Good for new builds on intel route though, nice for prices to drop.

Personally, I build mostly AMD systems for customers, allows for a better balanced build. I do use Intel but only High End stuff for Performance users that want specific things from their machines.

Those waiting for c2q prices to fall, should have seen the deal on the wall from the offset, prices only fall on current tech, older tech always hits a wall and goes no lower, look at Nvidia 2xxx cards, sell for silly expensive money still

I just don't understand why are they releasing new Pentiums for LGA775, which is supposed to be a dead socket?

Hopefully the price cut in the cpu's will lower the price on the laptop I've been eyeing up for the past few months

To clear out old (cheap) mobos and offer an alternative to AMD's rule over the ultra-thrifty; there are still people who don't understand specs and will walk into a store see 3.06 GHZ next to the word 'intel' for $449 and buy. Hopefully AM3 will see some better procs, and soon.

better then nothing !!!!!!

How many people complaining about Core2 prices not dropping bought their current motherboard and processor AFTER Intel released the Core i7 line, in order to pick up some good deals on the old tech? If you bought your LGA-775 AFTER the release of the Core i7s, that was just foolish, you knew Intel was moving on.

LGA-775 had a long life (5+ years), but its time to move on. It's just what Intel does, obsolete your old motherboard which each new release. One might think you'd be used to it by now.

The E6600 has 4 mb's of L2 cache. Not the 2 as quoted. Your E5200 through E5500 has only 2 which is correct. The E5200 are mad overclockers and can easily top 3.0 GHz with only minor BIOS changes.

In a 'couple years' the 870 will most likely be EOL and unavailable, except for possibly eBay. In any case it's not that much of an upgrade, especially not in that time frame.

You're wrong. The Pentium (Penryn) line all has 2 MB L2 cache.

The only two on that list that even matter are the E6600 and i5 760. The new 970 is confusing as Hell. It's priced too close to the EE model (probably should sell for $750), and the number (970) makes no sense at all. Intel is getting more and more cryptic with their model numbers, and less and less sensible.

Apart from i7 870, no other changes for desktop processors even qualify as a price cut. This monopoly is real bad.

damn them!

I am one who built my system in the prime of the LGA775 days i got a E7200 but want to get a quad. I like others have been checking prices on the C2Q for some time thinking I could get great performance out of my rig if I switched to a Quad. I would love a Q9550 (12MB Cache) but the (Q9505) is a 40 dollar drop for half the cache. either way 200-300 bucks is cheaper than going AMD or upgrading platforms. It just overpriced still.

No games I play or apps I run perform notably better on my Q9450 (oc to 3.2) than on my i5/650 (stock). In terms of performance needs, I cannot justify a CPU upgrade. The Q9450 is too good a chip to simply toss, but at some point I know I'll want SATA 6gb/s and USB 3.0, which means a new mobo, almost certainly not LGA775. Whether I go AMD or Intel, I doubt it will be before Bulldozer to see what that does to prices.

Let's hope it lives up to its name, bulldozing the prices to dust!

That's all I cared about

Probably that is they care about: Not dropping the prices of their best-selling processors as long as possible.

i know alot of 775 people are hanging in until all the upgrade paths are done that started with usb 3.0, now sata 3 and pci-e 3.0 to roll out. sucks for all you guys that already bought in will have to upgrade in 2011 to take advantage of those. but any one who bought into 775 before the i-5/7's rolled out, microcenter has had your best cpu deals for the last 2 years I5-750's were even $149 right before x-mas C2Q 9550 is and has been $179 for the last year now at microcenter. picked one up in may for myself and another last week for a friend, but i expect microcenter will shave off another $10-20 from that in the next month with these price intel cuts, just to clear out all the old stock during the back to school specials. stock at my local store went from qty 144 to 14 in the last 2 months since i bought mine. seeing is believing right? here you go : http://www.microcenter.com/single_ [...] id=0299412

Uh, people are still hoping for a C2Q LGA 775? I don't know about other channels, but most of the direct channel from Intel has been dry and DISCONTINUED for ages. You'll have to buy only through a store far down the channel to try to get one they paid way too much for and now have a hard time selling when other quad cores are cheaper and faster.

Where I am, Intel discontinued most of the C2Q after they released the Core I7, the price from suppliers even JUMPED ~$60.

Suppliers and vendors know they hold an easy drop in upgrade if they have stock, and are not going to part with it cheap.