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Earlier this week, Intel held its Spring Intel Developer Forums in Shenzhen, China and Cairo, Egypt. In addition to showing off its new Bensley server architecture, the chip maker announced the Core 2 Duo's (Conroe) ship date and a series of price cuts. More importantly, the same prices across its product lineup will be offered to all customers, not just the major PC makers such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

The price chopping will culminate on July 23, which will also be when the Conroe starts shipping. Here's a sample of Intel's new pricing structure. Keep in mind that prices are per processor in units of 1,000.

Pentium D 960: from US$530 to US$316

Pentium D 950: from US$316 to US$224

Pentium D 920: from US$209 to US$178

Pentium D 820: from US$209 to US$113

Pentium 4 661: from US$401 to US$183

Pentium 4 541: from US$218 to US$84

Celeron 346: from US$89 to US$69.

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Conroe starts at $183(E6300 model), but i think ill get the E6600 for more cache and at least its runs the same speed as my current p4, though of course much higher performance. :woot:

more slides for other processors

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Thank you for that. It was a good read for me. Is there any more information about Merom and its expected price as I'm very much interested in that. I'm not even sure if it is compatible with current Yonah boards though I have heard that it will be compatible. Is there also any news about the Intel Interchangeability Initiative?

PSG22

Annnnd the E6300 will probably take the A64 3500+ for a ride to the junkyard and back, in terms of performance.

You cant really compare then, indeed Conroe is better...

Still, Intel won this fight, not even the AM2 can fight against the Conroes...

Still, AM2 are just 939 with DDR2, still 90nm...

AMD RevG should be realeased soon enough with 65nm and there is where the war will begin :p

(Soon = end of the year might be totally announced :p)

Thank you for that. It was a good read for me. Is there any more information about Merom and its expected price as I'm very much interested in that. I'm not even sure if it is compatible with current Yonah boards though I have heard that it will be compatible. Is there also any news about the Intel Interchangeability Initiative?

PSG22

supposedly its officially out today?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060605/tc_pcworld/125971

tomshardware has another benchmark of the core2 duo(conroe). Since the NDA is over we should be seeing more reviews soon.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/05/fir...onroe_vs_fx-62/

anybody have any links of people who might be estimated AMD price cuts? i'm still going to stick with AMD for the rest of the year at least until quad-core cpus come out. I never buy technology the first time it comes out. I'm hoping that Conroe stomps X2 so AMD drops the price heavily on them so i can buy one lol.

supposedly its officially out today?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060605/tc_pcworld/125971

tomshardware has another benchmark of the core2 duo(conroe). Since the NDA is over we should be seeing more reviews soon.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/05/fir...onroe_vs_fx-62/

Thank you for the link :yes: .

PSG22?

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