• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Quad Core price Increase... Strange!!

Even so, it has to be said that you'd have expected the currency fluctuations to be somewhat counterbalanced by the natural price falls that you tend to see as technology ages. With the release of i7 it's somewhat of a shock to see the Q6600 priced at around £135. By rights it should be down under £100 or so before the exchange rate is taken into account, yet it costs around 50% more than that.

A similar thing has happened with GTX280 pricing (jumped from ~£240 to ~£300) however it seemed like they were somewhat underpriced at the time so that is a bit more understandable. That said, with the GTX260-216 coming in at ~£200 they should be dropping a bit I'd have thought.
 
i7 is not mainstream yet, and won't be for a while yet. Its release in the high-end market has no bearing on the prices of the lower-mid-end products.

Q6600's are still selling like hotcakes, and it has no competition apart from Intels own 45nm quads.

There is no business reason for Intel to cut its price by 30-40%. Certainly not until the new AMD chips show up anyway.
 
Well im getting a Q6600 G0 in a few weeks from a friend in the states when she comes over and its a lot cheaper than here, with the exchange rate i summed it up at £93 brand new, obviousley its more expensive over here as they are imported from the states, import taxes etc...
 
It'll be mainstream before the end of the year if Intel get their arses into gear and get a mainstream chipset to market.
 
superclocked, might of been a bit exciting, but what I should have said it was, it was guaranteed to over clock at least to 3.3 ghz. and at the time I got it I had an extra 10% off, and the difference in price was only £12, so it was worth it.
 
killiebrad said:
FoxEye said:
That'll help us export... er... export... stuff.

What do we export again? Apart from "The Office".

Meanwhile the stuff we actually use gets more expensive as we bring it in from overseas.
Click to expand...

exactly my point :(
Click to expand...

What is your point? We export lots, in fact 3rd in Europe and 8th in the World.

2007 Exports of goods and services ($bn, 1990)
$1,410 United States
$1,280 Germany
$1,152 China, People's Republic of
$772 Japan
$652 Republic of Korea
$622 France
$560 Russian Federation
$532 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
$467 Netherlands
$432 Hong Kong SAR of China
$366 Italy
$350 Canada
$285 Spain
$282 Singapore
$280 Belgium
$241 Mexico
$227 Sweden
$185 Switzerland
$163 India
$162 Ireland
$160 Austria
$152 Malaysia
$120 Australia

United Nations Statistics Division
 
miniyazz said:
I'm guessing he means a cherry-picked one such as the one here at OcUK!
Click to expand...

These aren't cherry picked, they are standard Intel Q6600s. However if they don't overclock to 3.3Ghz (which almost every Q6600 will do) then OCUK will swap it for another one.
 
clv101 said:
What is your point? We export lots, in fact 3rd in Europe and 8th in the World.

2007 Exports of goods and services ($bn, 1990)
$1,410 United States
$1,280 Germany
$1,152 China, People's Republic of
$772 Japan
$652 Republic of Korea
$622 France
$560 Russian Federation
$532 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
$467 Netherlands
$432 Hong Kong SAR of China
$366 Italy
$350 Canada
$285 Spain
$282 Singapore
$280 Belgium
$241 Mexico
$227 Sweden
$185 Switzerland
$163 India
$162 Ireland
$160 Austria
$152 Malaysia
$120 Australia

United Nations Statistics Division
Click to expand...

Shame it's nearly all financial services and we all know how well they're doing right now.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom