Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs Get Cheaper

Intel's CPU lineup has already gone through a number of changes, but things have hardly come to a close, especially now that new information has arisen about the price scheme of seven Sandy Bridge units.

Some new information regarding Intel's or AMD's central processing and accelerated processing units seems to come out daily.

Just recently, the prices of Intel's Sandy Bridge-E CPUs were discovered, as was the fact that they might get shipped without coolers.

Now, a new report has been made, one that deals with things closer to home, specifically the Sandy Bridge line of chips currently out and about.

According to the folks at CPU World, several models will become cheaper (unlike Ultrabook units) starting at some point or other during the third quarter of the ongoing year (2011).

Three of them will only see their lower tags come in October, while the other four will be more inexpensive as early as next month (September).

One dual-core model (the 2.7 GHz Core i5-2390T with 3 MB L3 cache) will get its own in September, dropping from $195 to $184. The same thing will happen to the similarly-priced quad-core i5-2400S (6 MB cache, 2.5 GHz).

The Core i5-2405S, 2500S, 2500T and 2600S, quad-cores with 6 MB cache and speeds of 2.5 GHz, 2.7 GHz, 2.3 GHz and 2.8 GHz (the last one has 8 threads instead of 4) will end up at $201, $205, $205 and $294, respectively (their current tags are of $205, $216, $216 and $306).

As for the remaining three (set for October price cut), they are all dual-core units with 3 MB of cache.

The Core i3-2120 has 4 threads and a clock of 3.3 GHz (will drop from $138 to $117), while the Pentium G630 and G850 (2.8 GHz and 2.9 GHz chips) have 2 threads each and will sell for $64 and $75, respectively (they are at $75 and $86).