Rumored Intel Pricecuts coming

[Acanthus]

Must.... Not.... Buy....

 

[phexac]

With these price cuts, I might pick up a Q9650 for myself to use instead of the E8400 that I have right now. It should be able to easily match the modest 3.6GHz OC I have going right now, while adding two more cores than I currently have. If I manage to sell my E8400 for about $120, the whole upgrade should come relatively cheap. Before, I never wanted to get a quad because I did not want to sacrifice clocks speed for more cores. But with 9650 this cheap, I will not need to make that trade-off.

 

[Duvie]

The E5200 is a screaming deal....

The one I had my hand on did 3.6ghz on stock cooler....imagine if I wasn't afraid of some more vcore and heat....It says 87 now but I bought mine for 82.99 a the egg.....so if it says 67 soon to be it may be around 62.99....

Nothing looks that great in quad core pricing IMO....i dont buy the highest processor anyways since I know the lowest one will OC likely just as good at the higher chip (as long as the higher fsb and lower mulitplier do not hand tie me)

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: dangtong
Where is quad core for under $100 for poor pp like me? LOL. Wish CPU price drop would be like the flat screen plasma/lcd price drop. Well, I'll still keep dreaming.

i feel your pain...and wow way to lurk.

i'm curious about how these low power quads will overclock. also curious about how the e5400's will overclock. i was thinking about grabbing an e5200, since the new price is bargain bin cheap, but if, say, e5400's can reliably hit 4ghz+ (i can dream, right?), they'd definitely be something to consider. hell, a 13.5x multi? *drool*

 

[videogames101]

I paid $317 for my Q9550....

 

[classy]

The price cuts appear to have gone in effect already.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: videogames101
I paid $317 for my Q9550....

I paid $1400 for my QX6700 (not really, I thoroughly enjoyed the CPU)

Price cuts happen, you can't ever let yourself feel bad about buying in before a price cut...otherwise you'd simply never buy in for fear of the inevitable next price cut.

 

[VirtualLarry]

So much for me purchasing a couple of E5200s to "stock up", at $76 each.

Still, I'd rather have the current stepping rather than the new stepping, as the BETA bioses for the Conroe865PE and 775dual-VSTA boards support the E7300/E5200 stepping, but not the new one (E5400, etc.).

Does anyone know, are they starting to roll out the E5200s in the new stepping, or are they going to be still available in the original E5200 stepping?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
So much for me purchasing a couple of E5200s to "stock up", at $76 each.

Still, I'd rather have the current stepping rather than the new stepping, as the BETA bioses for the Conroe865PE and 775dual-VSTA boards support the E7300/E5200 stepping, but not the new one (E5400, etc.).

Does anyone know, are they starting to roll out the E5200s in the new stepping, or are they going to be still available in the original E5200 stepping?

There must be some hefty micro-code changes with the new stepping if even beta-bioses can't limp the CPU into booting.

Any known major bug fixes with the new stepping? Or are they just coincidentally mobo-maker friendly in the economic sense? (i.e. go buy yourself a new mobo if you wants to play with the new stepping)

 

[Denithor]

BTW, the "Q9950s" in the table is incorrect, I believe. Should be Q9550s instead, which is listed already at Intel's processor tool (SLGAE).

Any idea when these LP chips will be released?

I see the price cuts have already taken effect at mwave ($274) and has started creeping down at newegg ($295).

 

[zerocool84]

So they introduce lower Watt processors which is good but I wonder what the compatibility with motherboards will be.

 

[Denithor]

I would think at worst case they would show up as a standard chip.

A simple BIOS fix should give it the correct voltage settings, if that doesn't happen automatically anyway.

 

[Cheex]

I wanted a Q9550 @ $317 but now it seems I'll be aiming for a Q9650 @ $317...