I'm planning on getting the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 for my new build. I plan on building the computer near the end of January. I'm trying to decide if I should buy within the next week, or wait until some time in January. Does anyone know if the price is likely to come down after Christmas and by mid-January? Or should I just bite the bullet and get it now?
The higher end Conroe processors are labeled as the E6600 and E6700 Core 2 Duo models, with the E6600 clocked at 2.4 GHz and the E6700 clocked at 2.67 GHz. The family has a 1066 MT/s front side bus, 4 MB shared L2 cache, and 65 watts TDP. These processors have been tested against AMD's current top performing processors (Athlon 64 FX Series), which were, until this latest Intel release, the fastest CPUs available, and the vanilla Conroe boasts much faster performance.[1] Overclocking results show that the E6700 and E6600 are stable when overclocked to 4 GHz with air cooling and to 5.4 GHz with liquid nitrogen cooling, despite having locked multipliers.[2]I'm trying to decide if I should buy within the next week, or wait until some time in January. Does anyone know if the price is likely to come down after Christmas and by mid-January? Or should I just bite the bullet and get it now?
At launch time, Intel's prices for the Core 2 Duo E6600 and E6700 processors were $316 USD and $530 USD each in quantities of 1000.
Price on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819115002
$509.99 Right now.
Pricewatch: http://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/core_2_duo_e6700_2.67ghz.htm
Starting out at: 526.50
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None of this is relevant to my question. I already know the stats of the processor, as well as the stats of others. I'm interested in whether or not there's a likelihood of the price dropping, given how prices have gone historically.
Well, it really depends on if you can afford it or not. There will always be price drops. Nothing AMD is going to release any time soon will cause a huge drop in the Conroe price.
Get what you want, when you want, it's your money.