Friday, May 15th 2009
Core 2 Duo E8700 Gets Listed, Price Displacement Model Stays
Although Intel made the Core 2 Duo E8700 official as early as in January, the chip showed little or no signs of reaching retail. Even the most popular retailers in US and EU don't offer this chip, and continue to sell the Core 2 Duo E8600 at its target price range of US $250~$270. Chinese retailer PCPop started listing E8700, at a price that displaces E8600: 1750 Yuan (US $256). While the store doesn't list E8600 so we could tell to which extant it is displaced, its nearest neighbour E8500 is priced at 1210 Yuan ($177), showing that the displacement may affect the price of E8600 to a greater extent than it would to its lower models, as E8500 remains at its common price. The E8700 is clocked at 3.50 GHz, with an FSB speed of 1333 MHz, and a bus multiplier of 10.5x. Despite its high clock speed, the processor continues to come with a rated TDP of 65W.
52 Comments on Core 2 Duo E8700 Gets Listed, Price Displacement Model Stays
Seems a bit pointless though, people want i7 these days or 775 quads...I'm not sure where this fits in aside from it has a 10.5 multi.
Volts seem a little high but I'm sure this is just an early example, once people really start to OC these chips I'm sure we will see much higher numbers. :toast:
Edit: Screenshot added. :)
Some more lists can be found here: www.cpusers.gr/showpost.php?p=22387&postcount=40
Thanx for posting it bta;)
Just another way Intel will make money by releasing a higher end chip to drop the price of the immediate surroundings. Good marketing Intel.
Prediction:
After i5 is released we'll have another round of backfilled 775 chips(ie e7600 or Q8500) and by then it should be time for 32nm technology to hold us over for a while.
beating a dead horse
intel is beating a dead horse, core 2 is an old architecture that cannot be further improved
and is beginning to retire it.
Intel Core 2 Era Comes to the End: Intel Discontinues X48 Mainboard.
www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20090512171231_Intel_Core_2_Era_Comes_to_the_End_Intel_Discontinues_X48_Mainboard.html
Core 2 is still performs well
if the cpu cant communicate with the rest of the components of the system the system suffers and so does your overall experience.
Personally, after I got my BE-2400 for $18 from the egg, all of the rest seems marginally better for a lot more.
Next gen i7 will only be enthusiast, and now this...whats inbetween? Intel is going to stop 775 mobos, wanting us to empty the current i7 shelves....
go to h3ll, I will post 3 years how good my current cpu is..gth
the system is not more responsive it does not do anything better just drop it. FSB is a bottleneck but not enough to make a better processor perform worse than the AMD ones.
i'm not an intel fanboi at all check my specs ask anyone on the forums and they will all agree if i am a fanboi to any company its AMD and i am sitting here telling you that the intel chips perform better in just about every little thing you can think of.