Wrapping up the 2006 processor prices story - UPDATE

Processor prices: AMD FX price drops

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The pressure seems to have finally made a dent in Intel, with an overall average drop in price in its processors for the first time in over a month. The Pentium D 940 has been leading the matching price decrease trend for Intel, as the only Intel processor that has been constantly dropping with AMD, over the past five weeks.

More significant Intel's price drops, though, is the drastic decline in pricing for the top three AMD processors, the FX-70, 72, and 74 (all part of AMD's dual-socket "DSDC" product family). In a similar turn of events to what happened the week after Intel's QX6700 was first released, prices fell drastically from the initial level. And with the exception of the two processors that went up in price this week, the FX-62 and FX-60, pricing of every one of these AMD processors reached all-time lows since we started this feature on October 6.