Intel Levies Heavy CPU Price Reductions
Good news, for those of you looking for a better deal in CPUs, came across the wire today from Intel. New price reductions have been announced and one could say they're taking price points down to bargain-basement levels in some spots, with cost savings ranging from 12% to a whopping 50% on the Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz processor. This pricing represents major reductions across both 45nm and 65nm CPU families in both their desktop, value and workstation/server lineup. This move will definitely turn up the burners on rival AMD. Read 'em and weep...
| Previous Price | New Price | Cost Savings | |
|
Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6700 (8M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) |
$530 |
$266 |
50% |
|
Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 (8M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) |
$266 |
$224 |
16% |
|
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8300 (6M Cache, 2.83 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) |
- |
$163 |
0% |
|
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E7200 (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) |
- |
$133 |
0% |
|
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6850 (4M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) |
$266 |
$183 |
31% |
|
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4600 (2M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) |
$133 |
$113 |
15% |
|
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2200 |
$84 |
$74 |
12% |
|
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2180 |
$74 |
$64 |
14% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core Processor E1400 |
- |
$53 |
0% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core Processor E1200 |
$53 |
$43 |
19% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Processor 440 (512K Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) |
$53 |
$44 |
17% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Processor 430 (512K Cache, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) |
$44 |
$34 |
23% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Processor 570 (1M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 533 MHz FSB) |
- |
$134 |
0% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Processor 560 (1M Cache, 2.13 GHz, 533 MHz FSB) |
$134 |
$107 |
20% |
|
Intel® Celeron® Processor 550 (1M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 533 MHz FSB) |
$107 |
$86 |
20% |
|
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X3230 (8M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) |
$530 |
$266 |
50% |
|
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X3220 (8M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) |
$266 |
$224 |
16% |
|
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 3085 (4M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) |
$266 |
$188 |
29% |
B3 Phenoms are going to have a tougher time competing with various Core 2 Quad chips at these price points; the Core 2 Quad Q6600 leading the charge at $224.
