Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Been Waiting for that Intel CPU? Price Drop!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 06:00 PM
"Intel slashed prices across its Pentium 4 and Itanium product lines this week as it prepares for its biannual developer conference in San Francisco at the beginning of September...The fastest Pentium 4 processor currently available, the Pentium 4 560 processor, now costs $417 in quantities of 1000 units. This is a 34.5 percent cut from its previous price of $637. Other Pentium 4 processors based on Intel's new LGA775 (land grid array) packaging were also cut by anywhere from 33 percent to 18 percent, and Pentium 4 chips based on the company's older packaging technology saw similar price cuts."
If you've been holding off on getting an CPU upgrade, Intel has just slashed their prices, so I imagine this will be reflected in most markets within a couple of weeks. Just in time too, because Intel hasn't emailed me back about a loaner processer for a review I'm going to do - I may need to buy one after all. Which would you pick: a 3.6 Ghz P4 or a 3.4 Ghz Extreme Edition? I'm leaning towards the Extreme Edition because I believe the extra cache will add up to more oomph when it comes to digital media editing - the new core on the P4 seems to be a bit of a dog based on what I've read. Thoughts?
If you've been holding off on getting an CPU upgrade, Intel has just slashed their prices, so I imagine this will be reflected in most markets within a couple of weeks. Just in time too, because Intel hasn't emailed me back about a loaner processer for a review I'm going to do - I may need to buy one after all. Which would you pick: a 3.6 Ghz P4 or a 3.4 Ghz Extreme Edition? I'm leaning towards the Extreme Edition because I believe the extra cache will add up to more oomph when it comes to digital media editing - the new core on the P4 seems to be a bit of a dog based on what I've read. Thoughts?
