Intel cuts prices for Quad Cores by 50%

[Hard core Rikki]

Public service announcement

Cnet story

Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.

The price of the Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz) fell 50 percent from $530 to $266, while the quad-core Xeon X3230 (2.66GHz) saw an identical cut: from $530 to $266.

Celeron price-cut highlights include the Celeron 430 (1.8GHz), reduced 23 percent from $44 to $34 and the dual-core Celeron E1200 (1.6GHz), falling 19 percent from $53 to $43.

The dual-core Xeon 3085 (3GHz) was reduced 29 percent from $266 to $188, and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3GHz), from $266 to $183, or 31 percent.

Pentium dual-core chips saw price drops too: The E2200 (2.2GHz) and E2180 (2GHz) were cut 12 percent and 14 percent to $74 and $64, respectively.

The chipmaker introduced the dual-core Celeron E1400 (2GHz) at a price of $53 and Celeron 570 (2.66GHz) at $134.

New Core 2 Duo chips were also introduced. The E8300 (6MB cache, 2.83GHz) and the E7200 (3MB cache, 2.53GHz) at $163 and and $133, respectively.

[Cheesus]

I'm pretty interested in how the E7200 will perform compared to the higher end Core 2 products. In theory it should OC quite nicely.

EDIT: Turns out it OCs pretty damn well. Didn't break 4ghz, but still performed very admirable for $133.

Full Review HERE

[John Aiton]

I thought it was april 22nd they dropped?

my info was out by a day

[Hard core Rikki]

its been 22nd april since a few hours, here ;p

[John Aiton]

time differences ftw!

if they dropped the price of the 8 or 9 series then i would get a few,
shame it's only the older or cache/fsb handicapped chips lowered

[runawayprisoner]

Originally Posted by Cheesus

I'm pretty interested in how the E7200 will perform compared to the higher end Core 2 products. In theory it should OC quite nicely.

EDIT: Turns out it OCs pretty damn well. Didn't break 4ghz, but still performed very admirable for $133.

Full Review HERE

I'm getting my hands on one of those chips (probably here next week). And by the way, don't trust the rumors. 4GHz is child's play for this chip, and it performs really identical to the E8500 at the same clock speed!

[Cheesus]

Who the hell do you work for??! Have you sold your gf to prostitution!? loool

How the hell can you afford so many chips???

[runawayprisoner]

Originally Posted by Cheesus

Who the hell do you work for??! Have you sold your gf to prostitution!? loool

I work for myself. And no, my girlfriend is mine!

How the hell can you afford so many chips???

Hint: I am not having my final build. I am just trying out chips for other people who are interested in buying them. The E7200 could be my final build, though, as I wanted a budget computer to begin with.

[Cheesus]

I still can't understand the logic behind it, but I'm sure as hell not complaining. Keep 'em coming xD

[runawayprisoner]

Yeah. If I can prove E7200 can do pretty good or really good in PCSX2, I guess I can start selling some to people over here. I see they are retailing for $170 out there... and tsk... why pay that much?

[skoreanime]

/pets his Q6600

There there my pet...I still love you .

Man, Intels got such a nice line up of CPUs now it's like shopping for boxers now...I can never choose between the cotton or silk ones...

[runawayprisoner]

Originally Posted by skoreanime

/pets his Q6600

There there my pet...I still love you .

Man, Intels got such a nice line up of CPUs now it's like shopping for boxers now...I can never choose between the cotton or silk ones...

I bet that if you sell that Q6600 now, you'll get way less than what you paid for it, right?

[V1ncent]

OMG , thats so cheap ! Core2quad at 266$ ? In my city a simple cpu(core2duo)
is worth 500$ .

Not fare .

[John Aiton]

Originally Posted by skoreanime

/pets his Q6600

There there my pet...I still love you .

Man, Intels got such a nice line up of CPUs now it's like shopping for boxers now...I can never choose between the cotton or silk ones...

Silk, always ride with silk

Originally Posted by V1ncent

OMG , thats so cheap ! Core2quad at 266$ ? In my city a simple cpu(core2duo)
is worth 500$ .

Not fare .

Britain is as expensive. Such a rip off country

[goodluck]

Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

I'm getting my hands on one of those chips (probably here next week). And by the way, don't trust the rumors. 4GHz is child's play for this chip, and it performs really identical to the E8500 at the same clock speed!

yeah, e7200 can hit 4.5Ghz.

core 2 duo e7200 overclocking

[John Aiton]

Originally Posted by goodluck

yeah, e7200 can hit 4.5Ghz.

core 2 duo e7200 overclocking

I think it's stolen from PcCI2iminal

read the better original test of the chip,
it's not stolen and has more general info

new retail E7200 on air + Commando - XtremeSystems Forums

[The Captain]

I wouldn't consider that overclock that great. 1.560v is way too much for a 45nm chip. It probably wouldn't last that long running 24/7 at that speed. Safe 24/7 voltages are more in the neighborhood of 1.35v.

[John Aiton]

Originally Posted by The Captain

I wouldn't consider that overclock that great. 1.560v is way too much for a 45nm chip. It probably wouldn't last that long running 24/7 at that speed. Safe 24/7 voltages are more in the neighborhood of 1.35v.

it's 4.5 ghz ¬¬
what more could you want?

you do realise that e8400s struggle just as well to reach 4.5 ghz
and they cost a lot more

1.3 volts for 4ghz, that's an ok chip in my opinion

[runawayprisoner]

Originally Posted by John Aiton

it's 4.5 ghz ¬¬
what more could you want?

you do realise that e8400s struggle just as well to reach 4.5 ghz
and they cost a lot more

1.3 volts for 4ghz, that's an ok chip in my opinion

E8400 needed on an average of 1.48v. Some good chips with low VID can go as low as 4.4GHz with only 1.32v vCore.

The safe voltage seems to be up to 1.5v and a bit over that. Some people have been running their chips at that kind of voltage, and the chips are still running fine.

[Phil]

well duo is out, quad is in......snap up the chaep quads while you can!!!