Intel Cuts Processor Prices

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While not the usual “across the board” price cuts we are used to seeing from Intel, the company did chop up to 15% off a few processors that are enthusiast favorites like the E7300, Q6600 and the Q8200.
 
AthlonXP said:
Funny how the Q6600 is still hanging around.
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It's a great chip and since its' second price drop down to around $300 its' always been a great value for the time. I bought mine when they were still $500 dollars after they dropped from $850.
 
michael.pa2 said:
Not much of a cut,I suppose the real drops will come after Nehalem is released.
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i dont think there will be massive cuts to their cpu prices on arrival of nehalem.. they have no reason too... the only competition to their core2 rainge is their Core i7 range.. personally i think nehalem will come out at a higher price than they said it would.. and then it will rise some more after a few good reviews come out..... so im getting my 2.66 bloomy at launch and buying the board and ram a few weeks/months down the track
 
i just saw the newegg q6600 price and it was cheaper already than the stated cut
 
How much cheaper you guys think the Q9950 will go after I7 comes out? Currently the cheapest I found it is 305...
 
We need to get away from mechanical discs, not faster and faster processors and GPUs. If we had hard drives at the same speed RAM is currently.. Who'd need anything higher than a P4 to run Crysis?
 
gaspah said:
i dont think there will be massive cuts to their cpu prices on arrival of nehalem.. they have no reason too... the only competition to their core2 rainge is their Core i7 range.. personally i think nehalem will come out at a higher price than they said it would.. and then it will rise some more after a few good reviews come out..... so im getting my 2.66 bloomy at launch and buying the board and ram a few weeks/months down the track
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yeah you say that but you'll get the bloom in your hand and be like alright fuck waiting, i'm ordering these items NOW :p
 
RADEoN said:
yeah you say that but you'll get the bloom in your hand and be like alright fuck waiting, i'm ordering these items NOW :p
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yeah, i know.... it's kinda depressing... i'm just a geek... i've gone without food a number of times for computer hardware ;)
 
matrix563 said:
u still need to feed the gpu imho
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You're absolutely correct.

Any good mid range dual core CPU from any camp could fill that void. Don't know what you'd do with a quad in the current gaming environment. The focus is on the GPU's.
 
Any good mid range dual core CPU from any camp could fill that void. Don't know what you'd do with a quad in the current gaming environment. The focus is on the GPU's.
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and here i thought i was going to upgrade my phenom 9500 over to an intel cpu ^ ^
 
Joe Average said:
Nothing funny about it. Pound for pound I'd say it's the best processor Intel has ever created... right behind the venerable Pentium Pro, that is. ;)
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That's not true. All Intel processors weight about the same and they're fast processors than the Q6600 at the same weight.:D
 
With 64-bit architecture and significantly more RAM than 32-bit allows, if you could move the pagefile to ram (if needed at all), the only bottleneck a hard drive would produce is the retrieval and storage of data, but not during the execution of an application. (And with enough RAM, multiple applications.)

So, while a SSD would be a "nice to have," it wouldn't be a need. At that point, GPU, CPU, and RAM become critical, but since we have these already relatively cheap high performance items, we could see the gains using an OS that can take advantage of them.

My plan for next year is to put together a "budget" 64 bit system (with different CPUs) with 64 bit OS, load it with as much RAM as I possibly can, eliminate the pagefile, and see how it benchmarks compared to an equivalent 32-bit. This should show how much a bottleneck a CPU really is.
 
Martyr said:
moving the pagefile to ram defeats the purpose of the pagefile.
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I realize that, but there are some applications which refuse to run without one, or won't run well, because they're expecting to see one. However, some will run without it if they don't need one, if they can be entirely loaded into RAM with the OS. (Most people don't have enough RAM in their systems to do this anyway.)

A pagefile is simply the physical hard drive extension of RAM, something that was pioneered by Digital Equipment Corporation many, many moons ago.
 
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