Intel January Price Cuts Update

[bigslappy]

On Monday we informed you here (http://www.techpowerup.com/81723/Intel_January_Price_Cuts_Announced_New_Processors_ Priced.html) that Intel intends to cut the prices on some of its processors. Well, it looks that HKEPC's information wasn't exactly precise as some of our readers pointed out. Now thanks to The Tech Report we have some new info, the new prices will hit on Monday, January 19 and primarily affect Intel's 45nm quad-core processors:

Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.00GHz 12MB 1333MHz $530 -> ~$322
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 12MB 1333MHz $316 -> ~$267
Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 6MB 1333MHz $266 -> ~$217
Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.50GHz 4MB 1333MHz $224 -> ~$194Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz 4MB 1333MHz $193 -> ~$163

Again, this is information from "an anonymous tipster", so these prices may vary.

Source: The Tech Report (http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/16237)

More... (http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?82123)

[Septim]

hmm sounds like something's cooking...

(2nd gen i7s maybe...)

[bigslappy]

Yap! this are Killer CPU's both the Q9650 & Q9550

[bigslappy]

they will be soon killed off as they compete with the i7's as they are way easy over clockers & stable too boot with the P45 MoBo's

wanna save some cash & get a good combo board /CPU then these & a P45 MoBo is for you

the UD3p & one of these means a budget KILLER system less than $500 & still get into the 4ghZ range on the Cheap

[RedRaider]

lmao....

These obsolete 775 CPU's should be half price...:rofl:

What a waste of $$$, IMHO.:)

[Kayin]

I think we'll see a lot of these "obsolete" CPUs this year. People are slow on the uptake of Core i7, and Intel's profits are down 90%. I will not move until I am much more secure financially and until I see a board worth paying for, and even then it will probably be to an AM3 setup.

Bitch if you want, CATIA is optimized for Opterons and I'm gonna teach myself that. AMD still rules some areas, and they happen to be areas of interest to me.

[RedRaider]

I think we'll see a lot of these "obsolete" CPUs this year. People are slow on the uptake of Core i7, and Intel's profits are down 90%. I will not move until I am much more secure financially and until I see a board worth paying for, and even then it will probably be to an AM3 setup.

Bitch if you want, CATIA is optimized for Opterons and I'm gonna teach myself that. AMD still rules some areas, and they happen to be areas of interest to me.

Typical response from you...:shake:

Quit fucking with those who choose to adopt the new CPU's...:nono:

[zlojack]

lmao....

These obsolete 775 CPU's should be half price...:rofl:

What a waste of $$$, IMHO.:)
A Q9550 or Q9650 is a phenomenal chip.

For the vast majority of users, it can do anything an i7 can do.

You also have the benefit of the mature platform that is stable and well-known. Easier to clock and less bugs.

A Q9550+UD3P+4GB DDR21100 well clocked can do anything an i7 can do for less money.

Maybe in another year or so, the gap will widen, but right now it's not that wide.

If you're still on 775, these price drops should be very tempting to go from Q6600 or E8400 to Q9650 or something and keep the same board.

If you're starting from scratch, definitely the i7 would be the way to go. But these are far from obsolete. i7 is still pretty niche.

[bigslappy]

Righto Jack !
save some cash & get a hot board / CPU combo . that will last till the 32Mn's come out .. Them will be the best of the i7's hands down ...

Red the prices now are over 50% less than they were just a month ago add an Good $130.00 P45 board to the mix & u got a better system than the current i7's as those are buggy right now ..

[RedRaider]

Learn your math Slappy. Those processors are far from 50%.

They are obsolete. No new motherboards will be made for them.

[zlojack]

Learn your math Slappy. Those processors are far from 50%.

They are obsolete. No new motherboards will be made for them.

Obsolete - 1 a: no longer in use or no longer useful

I disagree, Red.

They are a long way from obsolete. i7 is still in its infancy and is a very tiny portion of the market. 775 is still the main thing out there.

[just a noob]

hey red, some of us out there are poor bastards like me, so a 300 dollar q9650 with a used p45 board is perfect

[Septim]

hehehe... s775 good for a few more years... took a long time for s478 to die...
probably longer for s775... hehehe...

lets see market share worldwide: (just an example)
i7 = 2%
s775 = 68%
s478 = 25%
others = 5%

*does not include AMD users, because we're talking intel for now*

[Xilikon]

LGA775 will only become obsolete when the Lynnfield/Havendale lineup get released. Until then, it's still around as the mainstream/value line. i7 lineup is a high performance line.

[Ricey]

How "high performance" can a i7 be if its sold as cheap as $280 in the US?

Where is there even the slightest value justification in buying a S775 right now for $200?

If I want cheap, I buy a $35 AMD cpu. That's value. Someone at work went home with a new dual core no-frills computer for $175. That's stunning.

[Xilikon]

How "high performance" can a i7 be if its sold as cheap as $280 in the US?

Where is there even the slightest value justification in buying a S775 right now?

Motherboard and DDR3 kits is still expensive :rolleyes:

[Ricey]

There are ECS mobos for $259 now. The excellent Intel Smackover costs $269.

I can find Corsair memory for $35... wow that's expensive!

Intel made a mistake. They should never have released an i920 cpu. The cheapest S1366 should be $500. It only cannibalizes their S775 range, and vice versa.

New cpu orders at OEMs are way down anyway.

[bigslappy]

I agree with RiceY...............
Intel made a big mistake on the pricing of the i7 but they are phasing out the Q9650 & Q9550 due to them being better than the i920 & coming out with the 775 Q8xxx line ( a dumbed down 775 CPU to make the i7's look like the good deal)
775's will last a long time now as there is a huge glut of 775 socket MoBo's sitting in warehouses all over the world
all the Tech News sites have reported this & Also reported that Intel plans on pulling back release dates on the newer CPU's till the 775 CPU /MoBo glut is reduced heavily
RiceY is right now is the time to buy a computer as most PC games haven't even caught up to the 775 Quads yet
Much like wide screen TV's there is a world glut on these products
with most all i7 mobo's costing more than an i920 cpu add in 3 channel DDR3 the 775's look to be a better deal
the only people who will jump on the i7's is the early adopters who must have the newest & best
the MoBo makers & Intel will use them as test subjects for their new products
Had the wife not got get laid off & my overtime cut back heavily I'd be an early adopter myself BUT like the rest of the world it's a waiting game on money & the market

[mcoffey]

everybody can say what they want, but I'll be all over those Q9650's. Another thing, I'm not buying all the hype on the i7 yet. I haven't seem one compelling thing to suggest the i7 is "far" superior for a gaming rig. I'll take a Q9650 running at 4.25 all day long and twice on Sunday over any i7 for that price. I'll get a 920 to fart around with and punish on the bench, but I ain't drinking that Koolaid quite just yet. Technically, no where near the OC increase we saw with the first 65-45 nm jump. I was really expecting something better from the i7. Seem a little weak IMO as far as a new chip for OC.

Ricey brought up a great point on the way Intel released these. They didn't do theirself any favors at all by positioning the way they did on price point for the release. Who knows, they may have just opened the door up enough to allow AMD to catch up some. :shrug:

andyc

[RedRaider]

i7 is $229 + 8.25% tax in Houston at MicroCenter...:D

[Ricey]

haha $229 lol

I smell desperation from Intel in this difficult environment. Anything to sell.

Someone competent needs to take over Intel marketing. The $200 cpu should never exist, as with the $1000 cpu. There are too many fast efficient computers for next to nothing. How are they ever going to sell $1000 cpus, except to the uninitiated?

[mcoffey]

haha $229 lol

I smell desperation from Intel in this difficult environment. Anything to sell.

Someone competent needs to take over Intel marketing. The $200 cpu should never exist, as with the $1000 cpu. There are too many fast efficient computers for next to nothing. How are they ever going to sell $1000 cpus, except to the uninitiated?

I'm with you 100%. They got to put a little more lipstick on that pig, and that lipstick is a better price. I knew once I saw the initial reports on preformance the 920's would fall fast, that's why I've held off on them, which is a first for me on a new chip. I bought a QX9650 the day it hit the US market without hesitation because I just had to get my hands on the new 45nm tech. I knew it was going to be a hugh performance increase for OC's, and the unlocked multi was a great way for me to learn about hands on OC, but not so with the i7's.

At 229.00 though, I'll get a 920 just so I can beat the living shit out of that thing and see what it's really made of:D I bet the one I get will go over 4.0. I'll jack 1.9v thru that thing until the smoke rolls out from underneath it if I have too.....

andyc

[zlojack]

Yeah, I jumped early on the 920 train because I was getting rid of a motherboard and RAM I shouldn't have bought in the first place. I never got comfortable with the Rampage Extreme. DDR3 with 775 just seems like a poor match when you can get the same bandwidth with DDR2.

Anyway, my current rig gets better number than my 4GHz QX9650 and heavily overclocked RAM got. Whether that means anything in real-world terms or not, I can't say, but it sure is fun :D. I think there will be new steppings that will cool these off and OC better, but the 32nm chips will be where it's at. I think from now on I'm going to go with the "tock" instead of the "tick". 45nm Core2 was much better, but not significantly enough to warrant going there if you had a good 65nm chip. I think the same will hold true with the 32nm i7. You let them work out the bugs and perfect the design early, then jump on the die-shrink and get all the benefits.

[Ricey]

All this i920 reminds me of coming full circle. Its almost back to the days of the Celeron 266 and Celeron 300a, where a $150 budget cpu can equal or beat a $1,000 cpu with the greatest of ease.

Intel. Wake up.

[zlojack]

All this i920 reminds me of coming full circle. Its almost back to the days of the Celeron 266 and Celeron 300a, where a $150 budget cpu can equal or beat a $1,000 cpu with the greatest of ease.

Intel. Wake up.
That's why I'm glad I didn't bother going for the 940 or the 965

[FrostByte]

hell at this rate, AMD might make a nice breakthrough and be even MORE competitive in the market again.

[FrostByte]

Q9650 now $349 on newegg.