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***HUGE INTEL PRICE DROP - Over £200 Price Drop - See Inside!***

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Hi there


Two whopping Intel Price Drops and as always OcUK is first to action these drops, our stock arrives Monday/Tuesday next week, so order now for delivery Tuesday/Wednesday next week. :)



Intel Core i7 960 3.20Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail [BX80601960]

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Hardcore multitaskers rejoice. The Intel Core i7 processor delivers maximum processing power in response to peak demands. You'll fly through everything you do on your PC - from playing intense 3D games to creating and editing digital video, music and photos. With Intel Turbo Boost and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, you get intelligent performance when you need it most. You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. In fact, you'll experience a maximum level of performance for everything you do and for years to come. With a higher multiplier and the overclocking D0 stepping this is the only choice for people after the ultimate in overclocking performance.

- Lithography Process: 45 nm
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 8
- Frequency: 3.2 GHz
- Cache: 256 KB L2/core and 8 MB shared L3
- Memory Controller: Triple channel DDR3 800/1066/1333 MHz
- Bus Interface: 1x 4.8 GT/s QuickPath
- TDP: 130W
- Socket: LGA1366
- D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) for extreme Overclocking


Previous Price: £479.99 Inc. VAT!

Price: £239.99 Inc. VAT

BUY NOW!
















Intel Core i7 970 3.20GHz (Gulftown) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail [BX80613I7970]

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Dominate your gaming competition with the six core Intel Core i7. Thanks to the latest ultra-threaded, killer combination of smart features, including Intel Turbo Boost Technology and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, the Intel Core i7 970 is Intel’s most capable and downright devastating PC processor ever.

- Core Size: 32nm
- Socket: LGA1366
- Six Core
- Frequency: 3.20GHz
- Multiplier: 25x
- L2 Cache: 6x 256KB
- L3 Cache: 12MB
- QPI: 6.4 GT/s
- TDP: 130W
- Includes Heatsink & Thermal Paste


Previous Price: £694.80 Inc. VAT

Price: £457.99 Inc. VAT

BUY NOW!
 
Great price on the 960, finally around the same price as the 950. I never really noticed that the 970 was 6 core lol, sandybridge interested me more at the time of purchase so just skipped it due to the price.
 
I'll take myself a 970 at <£300 and wait until 16 nm before changing my motherboard.

They should be that price very soon, or even less after Ivy Bridge comes out.

If it ever drops down to £250, instant buy :p

For £450, you can get a new motherbard and I7 2600k, so the 970 still isnt worth it at that price.

davedarave99 said:
But isn't it true that all core i7's clock the same?
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Bloomfield (quad core I7s) are 45 nm, but Gulftown (hex core I7s) are 32 nm, plus two extra cores. The extra cores are mostly pointless, but having them as well as a 32 nm upgrade for better overclocking for significantly less than the combined price of a 2600k and P67 (£400) will be worth it for people like me who dont want to change motherboards yet. So once its under £300, I'll get one.
 
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Well, for an extra tenner, you can get yourself a 2600k, Asus P67 pro mobo, and 8 Gb ram lol!



Just add whichever cooler you want too.

I7 970 should be £300 max right now compared to that. I predict it will be after Ivy Bridge comes out.

Also I'd like an OEM version of the I7 970 for even less. If my I7 920 is still alive after so much torture, a 3 year warranty is meaningless on CPUs.
 
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i990X finally being released?

Do these price drops mean that the i980x is shortly going to fall also - in order to make way for the i990x (or possibly i995X)?

Perhaps Intel are keeping this one close to their chest waiting to see what AMD's next offering brings to the table.

Andy showed off an ES 1366 CPU (i990X?) quite a long time ago, it seems Intel have dragged the release of this one for quite a while.

Its either got to be quite an easy clocker to over 5Ghz (as some posts suggest) or it has already missed its window (due to Sandy being such a good chip).

Either way, hurry up and release it INTEL, so the rest of the range can come down in price accordingly so they become competitive with AMD's new offering and indeed Intels own Sandy CPU's.
 
I wonder if any of the people saying six cores are pointless benefit from quad cores. Just a thought.

+1 to buying immediately at £250, I think that's a long way off though
 
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