Intel Price drop anytime soon??

[santiago7245]

Seeing how Haswell comes next month, should we expect to see SB and IB prices to drop? As much as I would like a new system built around Haswell, IB would be great with a nice price drop no?

 

[MajinCry]

Let me put it this way.

The core 2 duos have stayed the same price for around three or four years now; £70-£80 for the low end models.
The core 2 quads have increased in price exponentially.

I'll go ahead and say:

No. Also, the processors will go up in price once intel punts out a new socket.

 

[barto]

AMD is the company that drops prices on their CPUs. Intel never does. You're better off buying the newest chip at a holiday or in a special deal.

I bought my q9550 three years ago for $300. That's the price of an i7 for half the performance.

 

[jaguarskx]

When the i5-3570k was released the i5-2500k dropped $5 from $225 down to $220 based on Newegg prices. The price have never changed since then unless Newegg had it on sale or offered a rebate for it.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Generally the only way to get an Intel processor cheap is to live by a Microcenter.

 

[Cazalan]

The prices were leaked but may not be accurate.

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/2013042301_Prices_of_Haswell_desktop_CPUs.html

Not much of a change. Alas AMD just dropped their older chips significantly today in prep for Richland.

 

[popatim]

..and no 6 or 8 core units :-(