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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices

By | September 3, 2008, 11:58am PDT

Summary: A quick look through Intel’s updated price list (which was released over the weekend), shows a few bargain bucket additions to the list.

A quick look through Intel’s updated price list (which was released over the weekend), shows a few bargain bucket additions to the list.

The first is the quad core Q8200 which comes in at $224. This is a 2.33GHz, 1,333MHz FSB piece which is based on 45nm architecture and comes fitted with 4MB of L2 cache (all the other Core 2 Quad processors are fitted with 6, 8 or 12MB of L2). The price puts the new Q8200 between two 65nm pieces - the Q6600 (2.4GHz, 8MB L2, 1,066MHz FSB, $193) and the Q6700 (2.66GHz, 8MB L2, 1,066MHz FSB, $266).

Another addition is a dual core piece - the E5200. This is a 2.5GHz, 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB processor based on 65nm technology. At $84 this is the cheapest Core 2 Duo offering.

Also released is a new Celeron D. The Celeron D 450 is a 2.2GHz piece. This is prices at $53 and is the fastest Celeron D in the Intel lineup.

On Monday AMD also announced a series of price cuts across the Phenom and Athlon range.

  • Phenom X4 9950 BE - Was: $235 | Now: $186
  • Phenom X4 9850 BE - Was: $194 | Now: $180
  • Phenom X4 9750 - Was: $215 | Now: $170
  • Phenom X4 9650 - Was: $195 | Now: $156
  • Phenom X3 8750 - Was: $175 | Now: $134
  • Phenom X3 8650 - Was: $145 | Now: $123
  • Athlon X2 6000+ - Was: $112 | Now: $94
  • Athlon X2 5600+ - Was: $102 | Now: $88
  • Athlon X2 5400+ - Was: $87 | Now: $78
  • Athlon X2 5200+ - Was: $76 | Now: $68

Some really good price price cuts there.

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RE: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices
berlindsucks 17th Sep 2008
Is there a site that keeps tracks of CPU models and prices over time, like, with graphs?.

I like the information included in this article, but how about Opteron prices? I have a dual-cpu system with an empty socket and was hoping the price would go down from the $240 I saw last time I looked...
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Let's try FSB x 100 or x1000
BALTHOR 3rd Sep 2008
I don't see that quad core gets you anything unless the cores are assigned by software somehow.I think,at default setting,that they work in a series or parallel type thing---
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Eh?
guruboy@... 4th Sep 2008
I don't know what you mean by "default setting". In order to take advantage of multiple cores, you need to write software that can use more than one core for different tasks at the same time. In some form, you've basically got more than one program running on separate cores (just like you would "multitask"), but the "programs" are working for the same concrete program. What the user experiences is better performance.

If the programs you're using aren't "multithreaded" in this way, a multi-core processor is still useful because of the explained ability to multitask.

More and more software is being released that not only takes advantage of two or four cores, but any number of multiple cores. So, in essence, the program doesn't care if you've got two, four, or a hundred cores. It will allocate the resources it has accordingly.
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Intel forces AMD to be competitive
Prognosticator 3rd Sep 2008
Great to see Intel force monopolist AMD to bring down their prices for the low end.
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You mean Intel the monopolist
ttremeth 3rd Sep 2008
AMD are by far the smaller market holder and Intel is the monopolist. Not until AMD released the Athlon 64 and started to erode their massive share did Intel release their finest products at reasonable prices. FACT.
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Do not pass GO, do not collect $200
nickoli0_z 3rd Sep 2008
Easy tiger, it's called sarcasm wink
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Actually AMD forced Intel to inovate
marks055@... 3rd Sep 2008
an engineer I know from Intel told me they were pretty worried about the Athlon 64 when it first shipped. They didn't really have a decent response, and they were trying.
Now its time for AMD to step up and do it again.
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NT
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45nm CPU is pretty special
pikeman666@... 4th Sep 2008
We're talking some pretty serious technology here in terms of chip manufacturing. For awhile, 45nm is "the grail" in terms of technology and as a hardware geek I think it's pretty terrific. It's even affordable.
So as much as I dislike Intel, they are entitled to some credit.
And I feel bad for AMD - those guys are really on the ropes now. With the bad business decisions in the last few years I think there is a real chance they mail fail.
And that's gonna be bad for everyone.
Good I was waiting for AMD CPU price drops to upgrade to the Phenom X4 9950 now it will cost me less to get a CPU.
I also have waited and watched for Phenom X4 9950 BE
prices to fall. Now, a reduced price for a quality
mobo, in addition to the new ATI Radeon HD 4550 for
under $50, and I will buy.
Is there a site that keeps tracks of CPU models and prices over time, like, with graphs?.

I like the information included in this article, but how about Opteron prices? I have a dual-cpu system with an empty socket and was hoping the price would go down from the $240 I saw last time I looked...

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