It is not much different on the Intel side of things, and only one of the processors we track fell by enough to take any notice of: the XEON 5080, which dropped $29 from last week's price. The rest of the chart, meanwhile, contains only a few $2 and $3 drops, with most prices holding steady or inching upwards. The popular Core 2 Duo, Quad and Extreme processor lines continue to exhibit very stable pricing, and the only increase of consequence was a $10 jump to the price of a 3.4 GHz Pentium D 950.
Unfortunately, the cold weather that has been sweeping across the country seems to have also frozen CPU prices in place. With only a few of the AMD and Intel prices we track dropping at all, a couple more inching upwards, and most holding right where they've been since we welcomed in 2007, there just isn't much to get excited about in this week's edition of our CPU pricing guide.