>>>MWave is first out the gates with full Intel price drops.

[yacoub]

It's a day early but their prices are already within $3-7 of the expected lows for the new items:

All retail boxed, saying In Stock.

E4300 - $115 - only $2 over the $113 1,000 chip lot price!
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=MB-BA23401&RSKU=MB-BA23401
E4400 - $139 (sells for $133 in 1,000 chip lots)
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA23789&RSKU=BA23789
E6320 - $169 (sells for $163 in 1,000 chip lots)
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA23639&RSKU=BA23639
E6420 - $189 (sells for $183 in 1,000 chip lots)
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA23640&RSKU=BA23640
E6600 - $227 - only $3 over the $224 1,000 chip lot price! + Supreme Commander for free
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22889&RSKU=BA22889
E6700 - $323 - only $7 over the $316 1,000 chip lot price! + Supreme Commander for free
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=MB-BA22890&RSKU=MB-BA22890

[Showing No Stock]
Q6600 - $525 - $5 under the $530 1,000 chip lot price! + Supreme Commander for free
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/externalTrac...?TrackingID=pageInfo&scriteria=BA23383


So there you go.

Hopefully NewEgg and ZZF will follow suit within a few days and get their prices down to reality from where they currently are, charging almost the next CPU level up in price for everything.

 

[stevty2889]

ZZF dropped the prices too, just bought the Q6600 for $559..free shipping and free supreme commander.

EDIT: Doh! should have gotten it from Mwave for $525.

Seems like every place is giving a copy of supreme commander with these CPU's.

 

[yacoub]

ZZF didn't drop the prices as much, same with NewEgg. I dunno about paying close to the E4400's proper post-drop price for an E4300. Same with E6320, E6420, etc. They're each closer to the next expensive chip's target post-drop price.
Congrats on the Q though... that's quite a chip

 

[Shimmishim]

its amazing that the price effects have taken into effect BEFORE the date... usually its a lingering effect...

i wonder if the AMD price cuts on 4/9 had anything to do with the quick effect of intel's price drop.

in the end, it's win-win for the consumers!

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
ZZF dropped the prices too, just bought the Q6600 for $559..free shipping and free supreme commander.

EDIT: Doh! should have gotten it from Mwave for $525.

Seems like every place is giving a copy of supreme commander with these CPU's.

I've seen a few bundled with 8600gt/gts's

 

[Avalon]

The E6420 is looking mighty good...

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: Avalon
The E6420 is looking mighty good...

Since its only a shy $40 away from an E6600...

Which would be the better buy?

 

[GEOrifle]

I don't know guys about thise deals but INTEL is working with several new and MUCH-MUCH-MUCH better CPU's and GPU's release end of thise year and maybe is better to wait?

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: GEOrifle
I don't know guys about thise deals but INTEL is working with several new and MUCH-MUCH-MUCH better CPU's and GPU's release end of thise year and maybe is better to wait?

Are you talking about Penryn? I don't think it's MUCH-MUCH-MUCH better than Conroe. So far all reports indicate 5~10% performance increase clock-for-clock and that's with the best case scenarios. What'd matter would be how much better Penryn would overclock, IMO. And no one can guess the introductory prices for Penryn at this point.

Originally posted by: Kromis

Originally posted by: Avalon
The E6420 is looking mighty good...

Since its only a shy $40 away from an E6600...

Which would be the better buy?

Tough question. I'd be more inclined to buy E6600 personally.

Originally posted by: yacoub
[Showing No Stock]

I contributed to that no-stockage.

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: lopri

Originally posted by: Kromis

Originally posted by: Avalon
The E6420 is looking mighty good...

Since its only a shy $40 away from an E6600...

Which would be the better buy?

Tough question. I'd be more inclined to buy E6600 personally.

I see...

Damn. Oh well, guess I'll just wait for some benchmarks.

 

[yacoub]

Well a 6420 is the same bus speed, same clockspeed, and same everything else as a 6400, just with twice the cache (i.e. the same cache now as the E6600 has - 4MB).

There's got to be a review out there back when the core2duos first came out where folks wanted to see how much benfit the extra cache on the E6600 had, and did this by dropping the E6600's clockspeed to the same level as the E6400, thus the only difference between the two is the cache. I'm pretty sure there are tests out there like that and that would give you an idea of how much difference there is between an E6400 and E6600.

As for the difference between an E6420 and E6600, it's simply the clockspeeds that are different by 270Mhz, right? So the only difference will be that the E6420 will use a higher fsb to achieve the same speed as an E6600 (300fsb vs 266fsb) since its multiplier is 8x not 9x, so it will possibly have minutely better performance if oc'd to the E6600's level and doing certain types of intensive apps. That's just hypothetical though, based on the physical differences between the two.

 

[yuppiejr]

Originally posted by: yacoub
Well a 6420 is the same bus speed, same clockspeed, and same everything else as a 6400, just with twice the cache (i.e. the same cache now as the E6600 has - 4MB).

There's got to be a review out there back when the core2duos first came out where folks wanted to see how much benfit the extra cache on the E6600 had, and did this by dropping the E6600's clockspeed to the same level as the E6400, thus the only difference between the two is the cache. I'm pretty sure there are tests out there like that and that would give you an idea of how much difference there is between an E6400 and E6600.

As for the difference between an E6420 and E6600, it's simply the clockspeeds that are different by 270Mhz, right? So the only difference will be that the E6420 will use a higher fsb to achieve the same speed as an E6600 (300fsb vs 266fsb) since its multiplier is 8x not 9x, so it will possibly have minutely better performance if oc'd to the E6600's level and doing certain types of intensive apps. That's just hypothetical though, based on the physical differences between the two.

The difference between the two is strictly multiplier, the 6420 uses 8x, the 6600 uses 9x. For overclocking, having access to the higher multiplier is desirable as it can allow access to higher clockspeeds without pushing the FSB farther than the northbridge/RAM can handle. If your 6420 could hit 2.4 ghz with a mild overclock to the FSB it would run faster at 2.4 ghz - though the real question is which one will hit it's overclock ceiling first since what respectable overclocker would be happy with only hitting 2.4 ghz..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2

Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 GHz 2 MiB 266 MHz QDR FSB
Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13 GHz 4 MiB 266 MHz QDR FSB
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40 GHz 4 MiB 266 MHz QDR FSB
Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz 4 MiB 266 MHz QDR FSB

The 333 MHz QDR FSB chips won't become standard until the 6x40 and 6x50 series chips hit later in the year when the debate will rage over the 6550 or 6750 being the better processor with only $20 difference between the two.

 

[yacoub]

Yup, basically saying the same. Got that data here, btw: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=2027470