Intel slashes processor prices
Cheaper chips
CHIP MAKING GIANT Intel has slashed processor prices by up to 31 per cent. Price cuts include the quad-core Q6600, down from $224 to $193, while the desktop Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) now sells for $183 instead of $266. The Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53GHz) has been reduced by 15 percent, from $133 to $113.
Although Xeon server processor price points have been lowered, the cost of QX Extreme processors, such as the QX9775 (3.2GHz, $1,499), remain unchanged.
Netbook versus desktop
The Intel Atom netbook microprocessor is still listed as 52 percent more per
chip than the desktop version. Indeed, the Atom N270 – the mini-laptop version
of the microprocessor – costs $44, compared to $29 for the desktop Atom 230.
Desktop systems often allow excess heat to dissipate via secondary cooling systems, so the 230 is manufactured using less expensive, heat-sensitive material. Nevertheless, the Asustek desktop Eee Box features an Atom N270 microprocessor. µ
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New Products Caused Price Disparity.
Late Last Week, Intel announced 3 new processors. Mostly Step Down in Speed & NOT Much, Until upon close Inspection, it became clear some of Intel Roundup was seriously priced wrong in comparision. So Readjustment.Asus has new TOP main coming in few weeks, it was tested under Nitro & NEW High core of 710 Mhz/s & Memory 2.5 Ghz/s was reached. Nothing NOT Already announced, except it must work pretty darn good. Its R.O.G. Board.
Now World Needs To Keep Up in its add-on Hardware? Well, if Your NitroNUT.
drashek
drashek is back
the menace is back. whats the matter drashek, you lost your pills again? try to find them, man, or we will all need them after a few of your comments.Too bad
Newegg is still ripping us off. The E series dual cores are still marked up about $15-20.Thanks Ultie
I always mostly understood. Keep me posted.Drop dead, Drashek - Please?
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Yeah Right
E8500 (3.16GHz) now sells for $183 instead of $266...What a load of B.S. outright...
I got one question for you: WHERE???
If you say "eBay" you deserve to be slapped like a naked chicken. If you say "well if you're NewEgg and you purchase 1000 of them" then you just ought to boiled alive.
Now once again, go ahead and tell ALL OF YOUR READERS exactly WHERE they can purchase a brand new e8500 for $183.00...I DARE YOU.
@Dave The (Ultie_Hater) Rave
You don't have to read his comment.Here's what I do: Skim through the feedback looking for comments that end with "drashek". Then mentally ignore them.
No, don't read or respond to his comments. The more you respond, the more you give him attention, and the more he'll keep doing it. (You're justifying his behaviour if you acknowledge him).
So if you ignore him, he'll eventually go away. Its the same tactic I use with trolls.
In both cases, their objective is to crave attention on the web because their lives in the real world are much on the down side (ie: pathetic).
Remember, you have the power to choose what you want to do here. So choosing NOT to acknowledge "drashek" is a far more effective weapon than to be continually annoyed by him.
As for the price slashing of Intel CPUs, that's good to hear. But I think I'll hold out until Nehalem hits the shelves far and wide. (waiting patiently for an affordable 3.2Ghz solution...It should be quite an upgrade to my current Sempron 1.6Ghz!).
Not quite $183
Buy.com has it for $193.http://www.buy.com/prod/core-2-duo-e8500-3-16ghz-processor-3-16ghz-1333mhz-fsb/q/loc/101/206459003.html
disparity
Even with the U$D dropping and the Au$$ie being near equal [ $1 AUD buys $0.963595 USD], the Q6600 ranges in AUD price $210.00 to $575.00 at 59 stores (shopbot)Thus the aussie range is $202.35 to $554.06
Petrol is going down too
the west may not invade Iran then?
Don't you get it?
Drashek is not meant to be taken seriously..Personally, I find him hilarious.