Intel details phase-out of Q6600

by Scott Bicheno on 3 February 2009, 13:08

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What all this means is that we'll still be seeing Q6600s in the market for a little while yet.

The Q6600 is listed at the same price of $183 as the newer Q8300 on Intel's tray price list, so it's not clear how Intel expects the Q6600 to co-exist with the newer CPUs until it finally disappears.

Here's a quick comparison of some Intel quad cores. We'd be interested to hear if the HEXUS.community thinks there's still a good reason to buy the Q6600 in preference.

We've also included AMD's latest quad cores and their published tray pricing for comparison. Bear in mind that AMD has positioned the 940 to offer better price/performance than the Q9550.

 

CPU Clock (GHz) L2 cache (MB) Process (nm) Price ($)
Q6600 2.4 8 65 183
Q8200 2.33 4 45 163
Q8300 2.5 4 45 183
Q9400 2.66 6 45 213
Q9550 2.83 12 45 266
P2 920 2.8 2 45 195
P2 940 3 2 45 225

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Posted by Max Tractor - Tue 03 Feb 2009 13:35
Q6600 any idea how many they actually sold
Posted by Jay - Tue 03 Feb 2009 13:40
thats a shame its still a top notch CPU!
Posted by mdjmcnally - Tue 03 Feb 2009 13:43
Current ones aren't clocking as well and transition to 45nm across the board means no room for the so old 65nm processors.
Posted by Hicks12 - Tue 03 Feb 2009 14:58
I can understand why it was a good cpu, cheap quadcore but overclocking potential(great). But now the newer batches seem bad and its more expensive than a 2.5ghz quad. I fail to see why people will buy it as u can get a good amd phenom 2 for similar price and they are much better.
Posted by Webby - Tue 03 Feb 2009 15:03
The Q6600 has been such a successful CPU because it is cheap (or at least it was) and it clocked well with its 9x multi high FSB was not required.

Also you only need to look at a couple of etailers and you see that the Q6600 is still cheaper than the Q8300 (although the Q8200 is finally cheaper than it this is more due to the rising cost of the Q6600 rather than the falling cost of the Q8200) the real issue has to be with the Phenom 2 920 being priced less than the Q8300 and only very slightly more than a Q6600 is it where the clever money goes?

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