We see one monstrous price drop in this week's Intel chart: a $120 cut in the price of the 3.2GHz Pentium Extreme Edition 840, which debuted in last week's guide. But that price difference had more to do with it being a newly listed processor than anything else, and its retail price is still over the $1K mark. And the rest of the Intel chart, meanwhile, is far more mundane and contains only minor price drops.
Slowly but surely, new processors are trickling into the CPU price guide; and while they have, so far, been restricted to the Intel charts, we are starting to see pre-orders for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+-4800+ line. We hope that the upcoming AMD dual core response (ETA July) will reawaken the competition between the two camps and start a whole new wave of serious price-cutting.
CPU Type
| Price
| Change
| Vendor
| Phone #
|
Celeron 1.8GHz mPGA
| $65
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
Celeron 2.0GHz mPGA
| $64
| $0
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
Celeron 2.4GHz mPGA
| $72
| $0
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
Celeron 320 2.4GHz Sock 478 Prescott
| $73
| $0
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
Celeron 325 2.53GHz Sock 478 Prescott
| $80
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
Celeron 330 2.66GHz Sock 478 Prescott
| $79
| $1
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
Celeron 330J 2.66GHz Sock 478 Prescott
| $89
| $9
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
Celeron 335 2.8GHz Sock 478 Prescott
| $92
| $0
| Monarch
| 800-611-0875
|
Celeron 340 2.93GHz Sock 478 Prescott
| $113
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
Celeron 340J 2.93GHz LGA775
| $114
| -$1
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
Celeron 345J 3.06GHz LGA775
| $129
| -$10
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
P4-3.0EGHz/800 Sock 478 Prescott (OEM)
| $184
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4-3.2EGHz/800 Sock 478 Prescott (OEM)
| $224
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4-3.4EGHz/800 Sock 478 Prescott (OEM)
| $273
| -$2
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4-3.0EGHz/800 Sock 478 Prescott (Retail)
| $182
| -$1
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4-3.2EGHz/800 Sock 478 Prescott (Retail)
| $214
| -$5
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4-3.4EGHz/800 Sock 478 Prescott (Retail)
| $294
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4-3.2CGHz/800 Extreme Sock 478 Northwood (Retail)
| $912
| $0
| Monarch
| 800-611-0875
|
P4-3.4CGHz/800 Extreme Sock 478 Northwood (Retail)
| $995
| $0
| Monarch
| 800-611-0875
|
P4-3.46GHz/1066 Extreme LGA775 (Retail)
| $1003
| $0
| Monarch
| 800-611-0875
|
P4 520 2.8GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $164
| $2
| ZipZoomFly
| 877-228-6958
|
P4 530J 3.0GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $176
| -$2
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 540J 3.2GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $210
| -$1
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 550 3.4GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $275
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 560J 3.6GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $405
| $0
| ZipZoomFly
| 877-228-6958
|
P4 570J 3.8GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $636
| -$2
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 630 3.0GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $228
| -$4
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 640 3.2GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $277
| -$2
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 650 3.4GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $411
| $0
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
P4 660 3.6GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $623
| $8
| eWiz
| 408-934-2500
|
P4 670 3.8GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $916
| N/A
| Newegg
| 800-390-1119
|
Pentium D 820 2.8GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $288
| N/A
| ZipZoomFly
| 877-228-6958
|
Pentium D 830 3.0GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $385
| N/A
| ZipZoomFly
| 877-228-6958
|
Pentium D 840 3.2GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $633
| N/A
| ZipZoomFly
| 877-228-6958
|
Pentium EE 840 3.2GHz/800 LGA775 (Retail)
| $1030
| -$120
| ZipZoomFly
| 877-228-6958
|
P4 XEON 3.4GHz/800 Sock 604 (Retail)
| $495
| $0
| Monarch
| 800-611-0875
|
P4 XEON 3.6GHz/800 Sock 604 (Retail)
| $750
| $0
| Monarch
| 800-611-0875
|