A couple of $10 drops, hitting the 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo E6700 and XEON 5150 DC processors, are about as much as we have to report in the way of lower Intel prices in this week's guide. Unfortunately, the biggest price change in these charts, meanwhile, is a $25 increase in the tracked price of the 3.4 GHz Pentium D 950. But such increases are often a simple matter of a vendor running out of stock, after previously offering a processor at a lower sale price than its competitors.
A handful of scattered AMD and Intel price drops can be found if you look carefully enough through this week's CPU price guide. But overall prices are holding fairly steady, with few dropping at all and fewer still dropping by enough to merit much attention. We are hearing rumblings of upcoming price cuts in both the Athlon 64 X2/FX and Core 2 Duo/Quad ranges, so this might just be the calm before the storm.