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Intel prices cuts to come.

cobxx said:
The E6420 looks like a right bargain, considering it's going to be just over £100 + vat. These chips could quite possibly just be fully functioning E6700's (of course with the working 4mb cache), as I'm guessing intel are much more efficiently manufacturing them now. If this is the case, 3.6ghz with 4mb cache for £100 is pretty decent :cool:
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Yep they look pick of the bunch, 4meg cache and a fairly reasonable stock speed (2.13ghz), I'd imagine they'll come in at around £130 or in other words a good £50+ cheaper than the current cheapest 4meg cache chip.

Will be interesting to see how well the Conroe-L chips clock. I don't know enough about the technology to say if I'm talking crap or not, but is it possible that these single core 1mb conroe chips could actually be from 'failed' dual core 2mb batches? Or in other words could a E1020 costing £50 or less actually be a E4400 which didn't made the grade as a dualie? I.e. it's got one core disabled/removed but actually has LOADS of overclocking headroom.

edit: I wouldn't mind moving to conroe as I think they are fantastic chips, but as of yet I've not really been able to justify the expense of replacing my RAM and mobo as well. What I'd like to see would be Conroe+mobo+2gig DDR2 for around £250, which I'm hoping might be feasible by Christmas.
 
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the Q6600 looks promising, how much will that drop to anybody know? i think i might be interested in it.. anyone think its worth it? would go nice with a watercooled setup & r600 :D

and is barcelona gonna be THAT much better than C2D?
 
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Q6600s a excellent cpu, not too hot and powerful enuff for Supreme commander cray 800 unit+ battles on screen...

Was it worth £530 I paid, perhaps not;) i think it will be worth it a lot more if its worth £350, but not sure if it can drop to that much will find out in 2-3 weeks time when the price cuts are apparantly due.

Yeah Barcelona sounds good but again all this infos up in the air and prone to delays.. some say its due June others say September.

Price cuts who knows again... but its apparantly there due late April will find out.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
it's because of barcelona.
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Barcelonas due for September for desktop..... im surprised Intel did that, I think they just thought sod it why not... and why not hit amd while there down....sorta like thats what they get for there Athlon64 that tarnished Intels name for a few years ;)
 
JoyPadJedi said:
How much is the cut anyway, I can't remember the prices previously.
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They were about £200 more than that, one website said its was going to be 40% of, and they were right.

I can't believe they've been there since last Wednesday, I should really shop more at OC more than once per month :eek:
 
got my Q6600 for £525, and now its £375 at Ocuk but rumoured to hit £350 lowest... thats about £150, lowest case is £200 which is impressive to say the least.
 
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