Do you reckon these are the April 22nd price drops come early?
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=430633
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Do you reckon these are the April 22nd price drops come early?
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=430633
Pretty sure that's what it's been at for a while now.
I think prices have been steadily dropping anyway, £163 is pretty cheap, it was at least £10 more a couple of weeks ago.
£200 -> £190 -> £183 -> £178 and £163 is the cheapest I seen today. Over almost 4 months £40 off. I dunno if its the real drop because its not the 22nd yet :P. We'll have to wait and see Sunday.
ebuyer have the E6420 for £116 much cheaper than anywhere else i wonder if it`ll go lower after the 22nd or whether they have already introduced the price drop already on this cpu?
There are a bunch of places that have reduced their out of stock chips early. Tekheads have a bunch including the e6700 at £200 and the Q6600 for £350.
Considering I bought my E6600 in January and it was £199, I think thats come down quite significantly. I can't see that chip going much lower than that price.
I think you'd be surprised. The E6700 is going down by about £100 everywehere on the 22nd.
That'd bring it to just over £200, still quite expensive. You can get one of the new conroes and overclock the socks off it and put the cash to something else tbh.
£200 for the second most powerful dual core chip in the world? I think that's ok tbh. And I agree that you can just buy a cheaper one and overclock it but there are a lot of people that won't want to overclock their CPU.
They shouldn't own a Core 2 Duo then ;)
So, just because we don't want to overclock we should get an AMD chip???? :angst:Quote:
Originally Posted by mishima
I want the best value for money processor that gives me reliability and speed.
Personally, with the price drops I'm really tempted by the E6700 now, more or less what I was looking at with an E6600 but no need to learn how to overclock :)
C2Ds also features hardware virtualisation extensions.
The E4xxx chips do not. Not sure about the newer ones (E6420 etc)Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
Indeed, all the E6xxx series has the VT extensions. Intel still hasn't updated their product comparison chart, but you can see the pattern though.
What does VT do in laymans terms
Slightly off topic
I've noticed this recent trend, it's not just on cpu's but on other stuff aswell.Quote:
There are a bunch of places that have reduced their out of stock chips early.
The moement it goes out of stock the price drops and when it comes back in stock the price goes back up again.
Personally I've got the suspition that it's to generate more hits from price comparrsion sites like froogle.
ocuk have the e6600 for £152 in this week only do you think it`ll drop below this on the 22nd?
Its £152 delivered from scan.Quote:
Originally Posted by grimpy
scared?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucio
Looks like the price drops have happened now, £340 for the Q6600? £220 for the £6700? Dirt cheap.
Ooh, that quad looks tempting..... if only it would be of some use. Best wait for a few multi-threaded games, eh:sleep:
I'm getting upgrade fever. I need to stop thinking that 'that quad isn't THAT much more than the CPU I want'.
Use For Quad Core!!!!
I will be getting a quad core sometime soon, it is just begging to go under water with some crucial Ballistix (loooking very keenly priced too I might add) with an 8800GTS in my new system and overclocked to the hilt.
like :censored: off a shovel I think is the term
It's only £152 if you have free delivery but to most people that have to pay for P+P it's £159 including delivery :embarrassed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
Oh and OCUK charge £163 including delivery :surprised: :mrgreen:
OcUK prove that business is easy even if
- you're rude to your customers
- you have appalling customer service
- your prices and delivery charges are much higher than anywhere else
- your RMA attitude is very much "try the manufacturer"
The only reason they're still trading is the loyal customer base they've constructed through that forum.
Very true, unfortunately.