Tuesday, August 31st 2010
Intel Halves Price of Core i7 950, Introduces New Chips
As predicted back in June, Intel has introduced a series of price cuts for a wide range of PC processors. The most notable of these is a 47.6% cut in the price of the Intel Core i7 950 quad-core processor, from US $562 to $294. This heats up competition severely in the $250~$300 bracket with Intel-AMD competition as well as competition among Intel processors of various platforms. In this bracket, you will now find the Core i7 860 priced at $283, Core i7 870 and Core i7 930 at $289; and now Core i7 950 at $294, quite a mix danger-close to each other. If you add AMD to the concoction, the six-core Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition is going for $290. If you're a high-end dual-core fan, Intel has Core i5 670 for you at $299. In addition to this, Intel released some new chips that include Core i3 560 at $138, Pentium Dual Core E6800 at US$86, and Celeron E3500 at $53.
Source:
DigiTimes
40 Comments on Intel Halves Price of Core i7 950, Introduces New Chips
i5 600 = 2 cores/4 threads
I mean if you can afford something better, then why not?
Im mean if he wants to wait for the 8cores or newer 6 cores, then that's fine, he can get that 965 which is also great and it's cheap to. But like i said, you want it to last.
Then again, we're at a point in CPU development where we don't need new CPU's for the mainstream market yet, i mean an overclocked E8400 can still get the job done most of the time. So really if he goes with that 965, it's still a fantastic chip.
A lot of games get a huge FPS boost from a quad and more and more will use a quad finally. The time has come to go quad and ignore the dual cores, that couldn't be said a year ago. Check this link.
www.grandtheftpc.com/2010/03/7-pc-games-that-run-noticeably-better.html
And yes, certain games do get a performance boost from adding more cores into the mix, but we're still not at the point where even quads are fully utilized. The majority of games still run great on a fast dual core. In the future this will change, but really as of now most modern chips can get the job done for things people do on there machines today.(including gaming)
I see what you're saying though.