Intel Drops Price of Core i7 970 and 960 CPUs
Intel Drops Price of Core i7 970 and 960 CPUs
Posted 02/17/2011 at 6:28am
| by Paul Lilly
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With a new six-core sheriff in town -- Core i7 990X Extreme Edition -- and the recent release of Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, the time was right for Intel to reposition its other processors on the price scale, and so it did. Chipzilla chomped 34 percent off its Core i7 970, bringing it down from $885 to $583 in thousand-unit quantities. Perhaps even more attractive, however, is the 48 percent price cut that reduced the Core i7 960 from $562 to $294.
Identical price cuts also affected Intel's Xeon equivalents (W3670 and W3565), and all of these street for slightly more than the bulk pricing. Newegg, for example, lists the Core i7 960 (quad-core, 3.2GHz, 8MB L3 cache) at $320 and the 970 (hexacore, 3.2GHz, 12MB L3 cache) at $600.
Those with a larger tax refund to burn can pick up the Core i7 990X for $1,050. The 990X comes clocked at 3.46GHz on each of its six cores and includes 12MB of L3 cache, along with a blatant (and unapologetic) disregard for high bang-for-buck ratios.
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ShyLinuxGuy
February 17, 2011 at 2:39pm
I'm sure a lot of i7 960 buyers are wanting to bang their head against the wall right now :P
That is a SIGNIFICANT price drop. Still, though, the 970--a *SINGLE* chip--costs more than my entire system. (I have an Athlon II @ 3.0ghz, 4 GB memory, yada yada--I don't game, but I am *more than more* satisfied with my specs).
The Core i7 990x would make for an *awesome* enterprise-grade server system, and the price is OK considering that there were some Xeons that ran close to that price. I think it would be overkill for a gamer/desktop system, though, but who am I? An Ubuntuer/Photoshopper/surfer/newbie coder :P.
hammeredtoast
February 17, 2011 at 9:41am
Still gotta' make money while your Sandy Bridge stuff is up in the air.
bigphil76
February 17, 2011 at 8:28am
It's not actually pointless. The new Sandybridge sports dual channel dd3 while the i7 960 has tripple channel dd3 mem controller. The i7 960 is supposed to be more of an enthusiast part and the sandy bridge mainstream.
sinan
February 17, 2011 at 8:03am
So what's so attractive about the Ci7 960 with Sandy bridge out there? Unless you want to keep your old Mobo it's pointless.
perryra1968
February 17, 2011 at 8:01am
I just bought an i5-760 and NOW they drop the price of 960-970...killing me, just killing me.
Paul_Lilly
February 17, 2011 at 7:44am
Intel still has the 980X listed at $1,000 (in thousand tray quantities), which is what it's still selling for on Newegg.
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