Intel Company on the days updated Price- list for its desktop processors.According to given of source, the following collapse of the prices from the end of the second quarter on 22 April.Possibly, Intel wants to deliver the preventive attack before the appearance of processors AMD.A significant decrease will affect the price lists of processors pentium D, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad.Furthermore, earlier than the period will leave Pentium E and Celeron 400, which had to appear during June.
Was confirmed information about the fact that the greatest devaluation will undergo four Core 2 Quad q6600 - released in January processor from 22 April will cost 530 dollars, but not 851 as now (reduction - 37,7%).At the same time, Core 2 Duo e6700 and E6600 will lose in price 40,3% and 29,1% respectively:for E6700 it fall from 530 to 316 dollars, while for E6600 - from 316 to 224 dollars.
The representatives >of average price segment, Core 2 Duo e6400 and E6300, will be depreciated not so seriously - from 224 to 183 dollars (- 18,3%) and from 183 to 163 dollars (- 10,9%) respectively.However, from 22 April these CPU will obtain new names, E6420 (2,13 GHz) and E6320 (1,83 GHz), and they will be released with 4- mb. cache in the second level.
In the budget sector has changes also .Recently represented Intel core 2 Duo e4300 witch fall in price from 163 to 133 dollars (- 30,7%), and E4400, which will leave during this day, it will cost 133 dollars.
Significant reduction expects the processors pentium D 935 and Pentium D 925, price of which will be lowered to 84 and 74 dollars respectively (now it it is 133 and 113 dollars).Obviously, this last reduction in the price for them - in the middle of their June will replace Pentium e2160 (1,8 GHz, 1 mb. L2 cache, FSB of 800 MHz) and Pentium e2140 (1,6 GHz, 1 mb. L2 cache, FSB of 800 MHz).In this case cost they will be so many - 84 and 74 dollars respectively.
Finally, price of Celeron D 440 (2 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, FSB 800 MHz) will be 59 dollars, and Celeron D 430 (1,8 GHz, 512 KB L 2, FSB of 800 MHz) - 49 dollars.Any of them will ensure the best performance, than todays Celeron 360 3,6 GHz)
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