Intel Ivy Bridge gets pre-launch price cut

Intel has given some of its Ivy Bridge processors a price cut even though the chips aren't even launched yet. With Intel having had a hard time making up its mind with regards to when to actually launch...

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$5-$8 off counts as a price cut now? The manufacturers might save a bit from this but the retail price won't change at all for us.

 

^ agreed

 

Like our economy teacher once said:" If the company that makes advils change the cap to better suit people with arthritis, they can slap on a «new and improved» sigil, but it doesn't necessarily mean it really IS new and improved not does it?", right h0d?

 

with godawful BD any price cut is a good one even 7-8 bucks.

 

Yummy..can't wait to get my hands on that I7 3770k.

 

I have a p67 board and im using 2500k right now. I saw a lots of article about ivy being p67 chipset compatible // same number of articles also say IT WONT be p67 compatible no matter what.. may I ask?

 

Well from what i've heard it's compatible, only you won't have the new features.

 

hmm thanks.. I will look into those features. I just hope the new chipset and my p67 wont have much difference so I can pick up a new ivy like p35 - p45 chipset. they were similar in many ways except fsb overclocking.

 

I haven't found any game where I'm cpu bottlenecked as I play with vsync on at 1080p with one GPU.

I can't imagine anything else coming out that would justify the use of a new CPU game wise unless you are running SLI and need the extra juice.

I'll probably get a new CPU when haswell rolls out and DDR4 comes in.

 

Good news for Gigabyte awhile back

GIGABYTE Announces Entire 6 Series Ready to Support Native PCIe Gen. 3

http://www.gigabyte.us/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=1048

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Chipset	Model
 Z68	G1.Sniper 2
GA-Z68XP-UD5
GA-Z68X-UD5-B3
GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD
GA-Z68XP-UD4
GA-Z68X-UD4-B3
GA-Z68XP-UD3P
GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3
GA-Z68XP-UD3R
GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3
GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
GA-Z68XP-UD3
GA-Z68AP-D3
GA-Z68P-DS3
GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3
GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3
 P67/H67	
GA-P67A-UD5-B3
GA-P67A-UD4-B3
GA-P67A-UD3P-B3
GA-P67X-UD3R-B3
GA-P67A-UD3R-B3
GA-P67X-UD3-B3
GA-P67A-UD3-B3
GA-P67A-D3-B3
GA-P67-DS3-B3
GA-PH67A-UD3-B3
GA-PH67-UD3-B3
GA-PH67-DS3-B3
GA-PH67A-D3-B3
GA-H67A-D3H-B3
GA-H67M-D2-B3
GA-H67N-USB3-B3
 H61	
GA-H61M-D2P-B3
GA-H61M-D2-B3
GA-H61M-S2V-B3
GA-H61M-USB3-B3
GA-H61M-S2-B3
GA-H61N-USB3
GA-HA65M-D2H-B3
GA-P61-S3-B3
GA-P61-DS3-B3
GA-P61-USB3-B3
GA-PA65-UD3-B3