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Driver intel core 2 quad q83003/11/2023 ![]() And we have to thank AMD for keeping the pressure on and making this possible. ![]() Intel for responding so quickly and effectively the 40% price drop on the Q9650 just made sense and now you can have a chip with 12MB of L2 cache for under $300 thanks to the Q9550. We really have to applaud both companies here. The table below shows what happened: ProcessorĪMD responded immediately, cutting its Phenom II prices to match: Processor ![]() Less than two weeks later Intel responded by cutting its quad core prices. If you haven't already, I would strongly suggest reading that article in order to get the background information necessary about what was changed in Phenom II to make it so competitive. Priced at $275 and $235 respectively, these two chips beat out the equivalently priced Intel CPUs, the Q9400 and the Q8200. Let's recap what's happened.ĪMD launched its first truly competitive CPUs in over two years in January: the Phenom II X4 940 and 920. We're in the midst of a price war folks, and at a time when the global economy is looking a little shaky this actually works very well for us.
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