Intel prices up quad-core desktop chips
By Tony Smith
18th October 2006 11:24 GMT
So how much are Intel's upcoming quad-core processors going to set
you back? Top dollar, it seems, according to reports coming out of
Taiwan citing industry sources who've seen the chip giant's latest
roadmap.
Not that it takes much mental activity to work out the
gamer-oriented 'Kentsfield' Core 2 Extreme's price. The QX6700
will, like all other Extreme-branded processors before it, be
priced at $999, a DigiTimes report claims. That's the price of each
processor when they're sold in 1,000-chip batches - boxed-chip
prices should be slightly higher.
The QX6700 is due to ship later this quarter. It will be
followed in Q1 2007 by the Core 2 Quad Q6600, which, the
report reckons, will cost $851. If true, that puts it well up above
what Intel currently charges for the top-of-the-line Core 2 Duos -
quad-core will clearly be a premium product, with Intel pitching
the part solely at the performance-hungry and well-heeled
buyer.
This's the intel logo...
YESH....its coming in Q1 2007! together with a 3 GPU mobo which i
have seen by Nvidia etc... so you can do 4 cores, 3 GPUs and wont
slow down your graphics. 