If you have been reading my posts regularly you would have seen that I was toying with an idea of putting a login page over my personal blog. Didn’t really feel comfortable with everyone reading my personal blog. So when you enter my blog just register. It will be fun. Surprises await for those who register. Well, that’s about it.
Original URL: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/intel_price_adjustments_launch/
Chip giant whips out low-power quad-core CPUs
Intel cuts prices too
Posted in PC Builder, 20th January 2009 10:52 GMT
Intel has rolled out some new CPUs and cut the prices of old ones.
The chip giant’s desktop product list now includes the Core 2 Quad Q9550s, Q9400s and Q8200s. The suffix indicates they’re all low-power version of existing quad-core chips, each sporting a reduced TDP of 65W, down from 95W.
Clocked at, respectively, 2.83GHz, 2.66GHz and 2.33GHz, the CPUs all sit on a 1333MHz frontside bus. They contain 12MB, 6MB and 4MB of L2 cache, and are priced at $369, $320 and $245 when ordered in batches of 1000.
The price cuts – of between 16 per cent and 40 per cent – take the 95W Core 2 Quads down to below those prices, leaving us in the unusual situation of a 3GHz Q9650 costing less than a slower, lower-model-number part, the Q9550s.
Intel also introduced the 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo E7500 – 3MB L2, 1066MHz FSB, $133 – and the 2.8GHz Pentium Dual Core E5400 – 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB, $84.
Both the Core 2 Duo and the Pentium Dual Core lines also experience downward price adjustments, of up to 15 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively. ®
Slashdot writes
An anonymous reader writes “In a study conducted by TNO for the Dutch government the economic effects of filesharing are found to be positive. According to the 146 page report (available for download, but in Dutch) filesharing is good for the prosperity of the Dutch: with filesharing more media are available, even though this costs the media industry some profit. One of the most noticeable conclusions is that downloading and buying are not mutually exclusive: downloaders on average buy just as much music as non-downloaders, but they buy more DVD’s and games then people who don’t download. They also tend to visit more concerts and buy more merchandise.”
All I can say is yeah right! I mean why should someone buy a media when you can get it for free. I mean now they have all these DivX players and all so playing it on TV is less of a problem. And as for quality I have seen many High Definition quality illegal media on the net. Sorry Dutch government researchers just don’t kid yourselves.
Peace!!
