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. ®
