Until recently we were assured that the announced within the next few days four core processor core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) will cost $851 in parties from 1000 pieces, and it will fall in price to $530 only in the second quarter this year, when will be also lowered prices of processors family core 2 Duo.
Associate reported with the reference of some media statements , that the processor core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) can cost $531 already during the day of anoncement. Thus, failure of previous sufficiently high price $851 will make possible to increase the interest of buyers in the four core processors intel already in the current block.
The price Of core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) will be only $1 above prices of dual core processor core 2 Duo e6700 (2.66 GHz). This symbolic difference, intended to emphasize differences in the number of core and status of processor. Honestly speaking, price in $531 seems for us more valid because with $851 price would be located far from many overclocker budget, who made selection into the benefit of processor core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) - after adding only $148, it would be possible to obtain the processor core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz) with the free multiplier, which substantially facilitates the overclock of processor kentsfield. With price $531 for processor core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) it have more chances to find grateful buyers.
The solution to reduce price of this processor has a competitory reasons: AMD sufficiently aggressively moves its complete sets of processors athlon 64 FX-7x four core platform quad FX. So for intel is necessary a relative inexpensive four core processor, and Core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) can become precisely this processor.