Any chance of a price drop on C2D?

suomi · 14 May 2009 at 22:24

As the title say's I was wondering if we are likely to see C2D drop in price between now and Christmas. Not looking to move to i7 or i5.

Especially thinking of Q9550 or either E8400, E8500 or E8600

OpenToSuggestions · 14 May 2009 at 22:30

I would almost certainly say so, but when and by how much who knows.

The US are in a lot of deep **** with money, so hopefully the $ will drop off a bit so components become as nicely priced as they were a year ago!

spleenharvester · 14 May 2009 at 22:34

There's also the Intel EU fine aswell, that may have an influence upon it.

reflux · 14 May 2009 at 22:35

They'll be going EOL towards the end of the year so they should be quite cheap by then.

spleenharvester · 14 May 2009 at 22:38

That also, expect some in to be in clearance.

alex24 · 14 May 2009 at 22:41

I'd love to be able to pick up a q6600 or higher for a reasonable price, even second hand. The depreciation on my C2D is shocking, was about the same price as the q6600 at the time, now worth just over half as much! Should have got the quad! Only reason I went for dual was that it had higher clockspeed, so better gaming performance, but this wasn't the case as it only clocks to 3GHz since it's a poor chip! Most of the half decent q6600's go to 3.6!

/rant

setter · 14 May 2009 at 22:47

alexhull24 said:
I'd love to be able to pick up a q6600 or higher for a reasonable price, even second hand. The depreciation on my C2D is shocking, was about the same price as the q6600 at the time, now worth just over half as much! Should have got the quad! Only reason I went for dual was that it had higher clockspeed, so better gaming performance, but this wasn't the case as it only clocks to 3GHz since it's a poor chip! Most of the half decent q6600's go to 3.6!

/rant

If you were gonna get a q6600, youd be better off looking for a proven overclocker from the MM, as the recent models arent great clockers, some struggle to go much over 3.4ghz often needing high voltage for that.

alex24 · 14 May 2009 at 22:58

Yeah, there was one today, would have had it but sold in about 5 mins! I don't have the time to sit and check, and nobody seems to bother with answering wanted threads on that type of thing, certainly not for a decent price anyway.

setter · 14 May 2009 at 23:01

Yep i sold mine last week, 1.2750 vid cpu that i had prime stable at 3.8ghz on air, was snapped up very quickly.

JonJ678 · 15 May 2009 at 00:19

I'm keeping an eye out for a cheap q9650, want to have a play with x9 instead of x8.5

Hard to justify 300 quid for that

valdai · 15 May 2009 at 00:50

Surely they will start to make some bigger slashes as the i5's come into sight for release? If not before that even

widdyst · 15 May 2009 at 00:59

what socket will the i5's be using

RJC · 15 May 2009 at 07:20

LGA 1160, looking around.

Jono8 · 15 May 2009 at 11:45

JonJ678 said:
I'm keeping an eye out for a cheap q9650, want to have a play with x9 instead of x8.5

Hard to justify 300 quid for that

Know what you mean. Fortunately i managed to nab one for £225 which i thought was a pretty good deal. Didnt seem worth it at £270+

spookywillow · 15 May 2009 at 13:30

there might be with with the new E8700 thats just been listed on some chinese shop

ian|Squared² · 15 May 2009 at 22:04

ive been on my Q6600 for a while now and i dont see any need for an upgrade.
with this clocked over 3GHz the bottleneck in my system is the hard drives
next big upgrade for me will be going to SSDs, i want these to come down in price sooo bad! not bothered about CPU!

bosTRom · 16 May 2009 at 21:27

spookywillow said:
there might be with with the new E8700 thats just been listed on some chinese shop

That would be good to see how well they overclock.

doiks14 · 17 May 2009 at 00:32

C2D would definitely drop in price even more (even thought they're dirt cheap even now.)
But what fraustrates me is the Core 2 Quad's... their prices actually increased

nightmare99 · 17 May 2009 at 08:46

But what fraustrates me is the Core 2 Quad's... their prices actually increased

What? All cpus had a slight price increase due to the weak £, are you talking about the Q6600 specifically? If so it is becuase it is end of life and no longer available through distribution, if you want this old CPU I would just buy one second hand.

I would not expect and massive price recuctions on C2D/C2Q, i5 will just be phased in at exisiting price points.

JonJ678 · 19 May 2009 at 13:20

Sadly I think nightmare is right there. We shall hope anyway.