Tuesday, January 19th 2010
Intel Announces Three LGA 775 Processors, Cuts Prices of Some Chips
Intel is continuing to keep its lineup of socket LGA 775 processors developing. The company just introduced three new models: Core 2 Quad Q9500, Pentium E6600, and Celeron E3400. The Q9500 quad-core chip runs at 2.83 GHz, with an FSB speed of 1333 MHz much like the Q9550, except that it has 6 MB of total L2 cache instead of 12 MB on the Q9550. It is priced at US $183. Next, the Pentium E6600 dual-core chip runs at 3.06 GHz with an FSB speed of 1066 MHz. It is based on the 45 nm Wolfdale-2M core, and has 2 MB of L2 cache. This chip is priced at $84. Lastly, there's the Celeron E3400, with an operating frequency of 2.60 GHz, FSB speed of 800 MHz, and L2 cache size of 1 MB. This one goes for $53.
In addition to releasing these chips, Intel reduced prices of some existing ones. The Pentium E6500 is now priced at $74, down from $84, Pentium E5400 at $64, down from $74, and Celeron E3300 to $43 from $53. All prices mentioned are for 1000-unit tray quantities per piece. The new processors are intended to keep the upgrade path within a price-range alive, and to help clear inventories of socket LGA 775 motherboards.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
In addition to releasing these chips, Intel reduced prices of some existing ones. The Pentium E6500 is now priced at $74, down from $84, Pentium E5400 at $64, down from $74, and Celeron E3300 to $43 from $53. All prices mentioned are for 1000-unit tray quantities per piece. The new processors are intended to keep the upgrade path within a price-range alive, and to help clear inventories of socket LGA 775 motherboards.
33 Comments on Intel Announces Three LGA 775 Processors, Cuts Prices of Some Chips
Release higher clocked CPU's with less overall performance, so that all new systems are based on these - and thus, widening the performance gap to the i5/i7 platforms
(LAIK ME)
What a crappy chip the Q9500 is. Nearly no L2 cache, but wonder how it could clock.
For most everyday use you can easily get by with a E8400 and rock any programs, i hope the programming catches up with all the cores soon,..... :rockout:
The Quads with 6MB of cache, are just two E7000 chips stuck together. The E7000 series is actually still very respectable performance wise.
The Quads with 4MB of cache, are just two E5000 chips stuck together.
Though I though the Q9500 already existed, but was called the Q9505...
Especially in the OC potential...Dont u think?
i mean q9500@4,0-4,2 6MB would perform quite better than q6600@3,5 8MB RIGHT?
I think the problem is that most people think the nVidia products really are identical, when in reality we have only really seen 2 true rebrands from nVidia.