Next price drop?

[gaviota]

I have to buy a Xeon...anybody know or at least has an idea of when the next price drop will take place?

 

[PGHammer]

Intel has a big drop scheduled for August of this year (the Socket478 Fire Sale). Practically *all* the Northwood-Cs and S478 Prescotts will be either fire-sale priced or JPDed (Just Plain Dropped).

Later *this* month, the first LGA775 motherboards and processors will appear (early-bird TCWO is already advertising them in both MaximumPC and PC Gamer). Leading off will be (of course) Intel, with no less than *four* LGA models, all of which will use the BTX formfactor, have multiple PCI Express slots, and *no* AGP slots whatever.

If Intel gets it's way, AGP 8x is in big, big *trouble*....

 

[Lord of Shadows]

Im sure after the june 20th launch of the LGA775 (Not 100% sure but some mobo manufactorers calling them pentium 5's) prices should fall across the board.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15867

(I dont know about you guys, but the inquirer hasnt lied to me yet)

 

[MemoryInAGarden]

Nice big cut on the 3.4. Maybe more of us will get 4 gigs then.

 

[rush24t3]

Oh man...I got pumped looking at that price list until I realized that $218 3.2E chip was the Prescott and not the Extreme Edition. Damned eyes!