Intel Drops Prices of Older Desktop CPUs

[WiCKeD]

Still holding out for the new processor lines? Intel just made it harder. While higher end model prices silently slid last month, Intel has just made modest, but broad additional cuts to clear existing 775 chip inventories.

Intel updated its price list over the weekend and it focused on cutting prices within pretty much all its desktop CPU families bar the latest - Core i7.

The cuts are mainly of the order of 13-14 percent and affected products are within the Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium and Celeron families.

This move raises the possibility that we'll be seeing the new Lynnfield Core i5 processors a fair bit earlier than expected, as well as the advertised wholesale re-brand of its processor naming scheme.

Here are all the affected products and their new prices:

Processor Old price ($) New price ($) Decrease (%)
Q9400 ---- 213 ------------ 183 ------------ 14
Q9300 ---- 213 ------------ 183 ------------ 14
Q8400 ---- 183 ------------ 163 ------------ 11
Q8300 ---- 183 ------------ 163 ------------ 11
Q9400S --- 277 ------------ 245 ------------ 12
Q8400S --- 245 ------------ 213 ------------ 13
E7500 ---- 133 ------------ 113 ------------ 15
E6300 ----- 84 ------------- 81 -------------- 4
E5400 ----- 84 ------------- 74 ------------- 12
E5300 ----- 74 ------------- 64 ------------- 14
E1500 ----- 53 ------------- 43 ------------- 19

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[krone6]

Nice find. Guess intel is really pushing their i7's imo.

[xoggyux]

q9400 at $183 yey! that will push AMD prices even lower ROFL

[mrinehart93]

Yay!!! Even cheaper HTPC build now

[Almost Tactf]

E7500 for $113 is a pretty good deal......

[mrinehart93]

Oh, btw, when do you think Newegg will reflect on these price changes?

[jevans64]

Originally Posted by mrinehart93

Oh, btw, when do you think Newegg will reflect on these price changes?

Those prices are probably for trays of 1000 chips. Newegg will probably knock about 10% off their current prices within a month but maybe they will wait until i5 is actually in stock before clearing inventory of s775 stuff.

I just ordered $1036 of parts from Newegg but didn't need a processor, just some 1TB WD RE3 drives, another eVGA GTX 285 FTW for folding, GigaWorks T40-II speakers for the 2nd PC cluster, and a better PSU for the GTX 295. Getting 2 free games ( that I'll never have time to play ) with the video card a free label printer with each WD RE3 drive.

[levathar]

So, anyone seeing the price cut happen?