LGA 775 Lives on with Processor Price Cuts and New Lower Wattage Models
LGA 775 Lives on with Processor Price Cuts and New Lower Wattage Models
Posted 01/19/2009 at 10:08am
| by Paul Lilly
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If you're building from scratch, chances are you've been eyeballing Intel's newly minted Core i7 platform (as you should be). But the decision isn't so cut and dry when your budget doesn't allow for a new motherboard and kit of triple channel RAM. For those of you sitting pretty on an LGA 775 platform and in need of a processor upgrade, Intel has announced a handful of price cuts affecting its Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron, and Xeon chips, as well as announced several new lower wattage Core 2 Quads, which drop the TDP from 95W to 65W.
Among those with the new lower TDP rating are the Q9650 (3.0GHz, 12MB), Q9550 (2.83GHz, 12MB), and Q8200 (2.33GHz, 4MB). However, these new revisions won't come cheap, commanding an $82, $107, and $103 premium respectively over their 95W counterparts with newly lowered prices.
New processor models include the E7500 (2.93GHz, 3MB, 1066MH) and E5400 (2.80GHz, 2MB, 800MHz), priced at $133 and $84 respectively in thousand-unit trays.
See Intel's updated price list here.
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john3k
January 22, 2009 at 12:27pm
Isn't it normal for prices to drop over time? Intel has released its Core i7 and
it's time for them to move on.I just picked up a Core i7 PC and do have a couple of Core 2 Quads in the office
too. They work well.I do wish AMD the best of luck though, as
competition is good for consumers.
Yusonice
January 19, 2009 at 2:49pm
Dang you guys are lucky!
IN singapore the retailers take advantage of people! Prices of processor has not change in like 2 years!
However kingston value ram is cheap! 2GB for $26 which is like USD$17
Keith E. Whisman
January 19, 2009 at 1:33pm
Newegg has no idea of this new pricing.. Anyone willing to venture a guess when Newegg will change their prices to reflect the new decreased pricing?
Keith E. Whisman
January 19, 2009 at 12:34pm
They only did this to keep Al Gore from suing Intel. Of course Al Gore uses the Extreme Edition CPU's or probably a mac. That stinking hippy.
cigar3tte
January 19, 2009 at 10:20am
How many people will actually pay a $100 premium for going green? Maybe the government can give us rebates on this?
Paul_Lilly
January 19, 2009 at 10:57am
In theory, a lower TDP can indicate both a cooler running processor and better overclocking headroom than a higher wattage counterpart. Depending on the consumer, those traits might be worth paying a premium for, though you have to balance what it would cost to step up to a faster processor in the first place.
neo1piv14
January 19, 2009 at 10:37am
Rebates? Yeah...I doubt it. Don't you want to do it instead for the warm fuzzies you get knowing you spent 100 extra dollars to help the rain forests and the starving children in Ethiopia?
"Core 2 Duo...now for hippies!"
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