Intel cuts Quad Cores prices by 50%

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Intel cuts Quad Cores prices by 50%

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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.

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04-21-2008 05:31 PM

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RE: Intel cuts Quad Cores prices by 50%

Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66ghz or Core 2 Duo-- Can I upgrade either of them to 4ghz ?Thanks.

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04-29-2008 11:23 AM

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RE: Intel cuts Quad Cores prices by 50%

And this happens a few weeks after I just build a new Intel based PC.

04-29-2008 12:58 PM

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I'm with you. Within a couple months of my building the PC I use now, CPU prices plummeted to less than half of their previous prices. (It was back in '06, right before the Core 2's showed up. Doh!)

04-29-2008 04:28 PM

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RE: Intel cuts Quad Cores prices by 50%

I though it was because a new generation core was coming up? O.o

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And this happens a few weeks after I just build a new Intel based PC.

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