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HUGE Intel price cuts on certain CPUs

Post Date: 2008-04-29
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    Posted: 29 Apr 2008 at 2:14am
http://megagames.com/news/html/hardware/hugepricecutsonselectintelcpus.shtml

Intel's latest price update revealed price cuts of up to 50% on select quad core processors.

Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz) saw the greatest price shakedown with a 50% price drop from $530 to $266. The quad-core Xeon X3230 (2.66GHz) also saw a 50% cut: from $530 to $266.

The dual-core Xeon 3085 (3GHz) was reduced 29% from $266 to $188, and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3GHz) was reduced by 31% from $266 to $183.

Pentium dual-core E2200 (2.2GHz) and E2180 (2GHz) were cut 12 percent and 14 percent to $74 and $64, respectively.

Celeron chips also saw some price cuts. The Celeron 430 (1.8GHz) was reduced 23 percent from $44 to $34 and the dual-core Celeron E1200 (1.6GHz) fell 19 percent from $53 to $43.

On the same update, Intel also introduced new chips. The Core 2 Duo chips E8300 (6MB cache, 2.83GHz) and the E7200 (3MB cache, 2.53GHz) were announced at $163 and $133, respectively. Intel also announced dual-core Celeron E1400 (2GHz) at a price of $53 and Celeron 570 (2.66GHz) at $134.


Oh, and heres some leaked 9900 info for good measure:

http://megagames.com/news/html/hardware/geforce9900launchaccelerated.shtml

Info coming from several sources suggests that Nvidia decided to accelerate the launch of its most powerful G90 graphics chips in order to battle AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 4800.

Leaked info and underground rumors have it that GeForce 9900 GTX and GeForce 9900 GTS might hit retail as soon as July. AMD's Radeon HD 4800 is expected to be launched in May, though.

There is no solid info about both 9900 cards' specs, but Nvidia has already said that the architecture behind the flagship will be "extraordinarily complex" with as many as one billion transistors on the GTX. GeForce 9900 GTX is expected to host 1GB video memory with 512 bit interface, while the GeForce 9900 GTS is expected to have 640 or 768 MB video memory with 448 bit interface; but then again, those are not confirmed yet.
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Really sucks to know that im gonna have the power to buy a nice computer in 2 weeks only to see nivida dump so new end cards a month or two later lol. Of course I could "step up" but id have to wait that month itd take to get my new card without a computer since id just gutted it of a gfx card...

If those specs are right though, should be a some nice cards. Almost seems to me like the 9900GTX should be the 9800GTX and the 9800GTX should be the 9800GT... but hey..whatever confuses and screws people over nividia will do it.
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