Intel Q3 2008 price cuts

[nyker96]

Newer / Price Cut Core 2 Quad Processors
Processor - Speed - Current Price - Newer Q3 Price
Q9550 - 2.80 GHz - $530 - $316
Q9400 - 2.66 GHz - NA - $266
Q6600 - 2.40 GHz - $224 - $203

To be Phased Out Core 2 Quad Processors
Q9450
Q9300
Q6700

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Newer / Price Cut Core 2 Duo Processors
Processor - Speed - Current Price - Newer Q3 Price
E8600 - 3.33 GHz - NA - US$266
E8500 - 3.16 GHz - $266 - $183
E8400 - 3.00 GHz - $183 - $163
E7300 - 2.66 GHz - NA - $133
E7200 - 2.53 GHz - $133 - $113

To be Phased Out Core 2 Duo Processors
E8300

 

[Quiksilver]

Repost

 

[Duvie]

I have seen the Q6600 lower then the 223 listed now....203 is not much of a drop!!! Boooooooooooo

 

[mrfunk]

Over the past week or so, I have seen the price of the Q9450 at Amazon go from 359 to 370 to 418 to 425 (and it's not even in stock)!

At newegg it has remained at 359 though.

 

[bryanW1995]

microcenter has had Q9450 several times at $299.

I just bought a Q6600 for $179 at microcenter, too. Too bad I pay taxes there, but even after shipping/tax it was only $201.

 

[Tempered81]

e7300 with a 10x multi at 130 bucks is going to rox the house.

4.4ghz for $130 anyone?

 

[mrfunk]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
microcenter has had Q9450 several times at $299.

I just bought a Q6600 for $179 at microcenter, too. Too bad I pay taxes there, but even after shipping/tax it was only $201.

Thx, I'll have to check that out. That's a good price.

Amazon went up AGAIN, $432.

 

[brencat]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
e7300 with a 10x multi at 130 bucks is going to rox the house.

4.4ghz for $130 anyone?

I like the idea of a 10x multi too -- keeps things nice and simple -- but I don't see the point in paying an extra $20 for a 0.5 extra multi over the E7200. Of course, if there's a pricing mistake somewhere, count me in.

 

[WT]

Quick question ... is the 9550 a viable replacement for the 9450, or will Intel cut the amount of cache onchip ? I can wait to buy the 9550 after price cut, but if the 9450 is a better choice for a quad, I may have to buy that while I can.

 

[Modelworks]

Q3 starts when ?

 

[Budarow]

I was looking at P35 based mobos yesterday and followed a link to Amazon which showed a retail Q6700 for $179 shipped. I immediately started confirming my mobo supported a Q6700 (all steppings) and went back to order the proc only to find the price was jacked up to $299. I wasn't off the Amazon web-site for more than 5 minutes.

I was bummed!

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Q3 starts when ?

Come on bro...Q3 is the "third quarter" of the calendar year (i.e., July, August and September)

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: brencat

Originally posted by: jaredpace
e7300 with a 10x multi at 130 bucks is going to rox the house.

4.4ghz for $130 anyone?

I like the idea of a 10x multi too -- keeps things nice and simple -- but I don't see the point in paying an extra $20 for a 0.5 extra multi over the E7200. Of course, if there's a pricing mistake somewhere, count me in.

I HAVE to use a proc with at least a 10x multiplier since my OC UNFRIENDLY ASRocks Core4Dual VSTA mobo is FSB limited and running a Qcore may futher reduce the FSB by 5%

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Budarow
I HAVE to use a proc with at least a 10x multiplier since my OC UNFRIENDLY ASRocks Core4Dual VSTA mobo is FSB limited and running a Qcore may futher reduce the FSB by 5%

Ditch that mobo and buy a decent OCable mobo.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: WT
Quick question ... is the 9550 a viable replacement for the 9450, or will Intel cut the amount of cache onchip ? I can wait to buy the 9550 after price cut, but if the 9450 is a better choice for a quad, I may have to buy that while I can.

9550 is identical to 9450 but has the extra .5 multi from 8.0 to 8.5. 9x50 is 12mb cache, 9x00 is 6mb cache.

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Budarow
I HAVE to use a proc with at least a 10x multiplier since my OC UNFRIENDLY ASRocks Core4Dual VSTA mobo is FSB limited and running a Qcore may futher reduce the FSB by 5%

Ditch that mobo and buy a decent OCable mobo.

Well VL...I really dislike have PC hardware lying around unused. I do admit this mobo was the most penny wise/pound foolish thing I've done lately. Never did use DDR1 with it, as intended, and shortly after building the PC, I found a good deal on a PCI-E video card so my X800XT AGP card was not longer needed either.

So until I sell this rig, I'm going to stick with it. It works fine for gaming, etc. with a Pent. D925 @3.4 GHz. If I upgrade this PD925 to say an e4600 (with 12x multi), I should be able to hit 3.0GHz (250 FSB X 12x=3,000 GHz, plus have 2MB cache as a kicker). This mobo BETTER be able to hit 250FSB!

And I'll have this old Pent D lying around waiting for a deal on a P35 or X38 mobo which may need an old proc to update the BIOS (seems like the "dusty mobos" which often go deep discount have OLD BIOS' which requires installation of an older proc).

 

[Tullphan]

I've got the opportunity to get a QX6700, but I dunno if I wanna or not.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Originally posted by: Tullphan
I've got the opportunity to get a QX6700, but I dunno if I wanna or not.

for what price? At the current prices I would buy a Q6700 over a Q9300.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Tullphan
I've got the opportunity to get a QX6700, but I dunno if I wanna or not.

As HOOfan said, most importantly it matters the price. At the right price why wouldn't you go for it.

I own a B3 QX6700 and G0 Q6600.

If both were the same price I'd go with the G0 Q6600 as it overclocks just as well as my QX6700 and with lower power-consumption.

Now if I could get a G0 QX6700 then I'd pay more for that than I'd pay for a G0 Q6600.

Assuming overclocking is planned then getting anything more than a G0 Q6600 for $200 is not really worth the price/performance for the Kentsfield SKU's.

Nowadays I wouldn't buy a QX6700 G0 for more than $220-$230. If it's a B3 I personally would never buy it and wouldn't recommend anyone else buy one for more than $150.

 

[Tullphan]

It's one of those deals where one doesn't know the stepping & no way of finding out first.
But anyhow, I can get the QX6700 for $199 + s/h.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Tullphan
It's one of those deals where one doesn't know the stepping & no way of finding out first.
But anyhow, I can get the QX6700 for $199 + s/h.

You can always find out the stepping provided the current owner is willing to look at the chip or box and tell you what the Intel printed code numbers are. Whoever owns it can tell you the stepping or the Box Order Code.

The quick answer though is that after doing some digging around in Intel's processor specs it appears 100% of all QX6700 chips are in fact B3's. No QX6700's were being made any longer when the G0's started rolling out of the fabs.

Personally I wouldn't buy it for anything more than $150. You will get a higher overclock and consume less power consumption by simply buying a Q6600 G0 for $200.

 

[bryanW1995]

+1, idc you beat me to it!

 

[HOOfan 1]

oh, I missed the X next to the Q, I thought he said Q6700...which of course would all be G0 stepping.

 

[Tullphan]

I already have a Q6700.
Didn't know if that was a good deal on the QX6700, tho.
Thanks for the input, though!

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Tullphan
I already have a Q6700.
Didn't know if that was a good deal on the QX6700, tho.
Thanks for the input, though!

Before the G0's came along, and before the P35/X38 chipset came along, getting a QX6700 was the best way to overclock as those B3 Kenstfields hated FSB overclocking on the i680 and 965/975 chipsets.

Once G0's came along it was end-game for the B3 QX6700.