{"id":13858,"date":"2011-09-06T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"intel-16-new-sandybridge-cpus-prices-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/13858-intel-16-new-sandybridge-cpus-prices-cut","title":{"rendered":"Intel: 16 new Sandybridge CPUs; prices cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend Intel announced 11 brand spanking new desktop Sandybridge CPUs along with five new mobile CPUs.<\/p>\n

If you’re a performance enthusiast, then there is not too much to get excited about with the new line up, as it mostly consists of Celeron, Pentium and i3 processors, although there is a quad-core i5 in the form of the i5-242- which is clocked at 3.3GHz, ships with 6MB L3 cache and will retail for $177 (R1,240), making it a potential budget-performance option.<\/p>\n

There is also a new monster mobile i7 chip in the form of the i7-2960XM which has 4 cores with Hyperthreading (8 processing threads) and is clocked at 2.7GHz or 3.7GHz in Turbo mode. It has 8MB of L3 cash and carries a nauseating $1,096 (R7,670) price tag.<\/p>\n

An additional two mobile quad-core i7s have also been added in the form of the i7-2860QM and i7-2760QM, both of which feature Hyperthreading (8 threads). Another dual-core i7 is also introduced by way of the i7-2640M with Hyperthreading (4 threads) and 4MB of L3 cache.<\/p>\n

On top of the new CPUs, Intel has announced minor price cuts on various desktop Sandybridge CPUs. The price cuts aren’t much to get excited about, and range from 2 to 6 percent.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Model<\/strong><\/td>\nCores
<\/strong><\/td>\n		CPU clock<\/strong><\/td>\nOld price<\/strong><\/td>\nNew price<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i5-2390T<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2.7\/3.5GHz<\/td>\n$195<\/td>\n$184<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i5-2400S<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2.5\/3.3GHz<\/td>\n$195<\/td>\n$184<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i5-2405S<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2.5\/3.3GHz<\/td>\n$205<\/td>\n$201<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i5-2500T<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2.3\/3.3GHz<\/td>\n$216<\/td>\n$205<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i5-2500S<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2.7\/3.7GHz<\/td>\n$216<\/td>\n$205<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i7-2600S<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n2.8\/3.8GHz<\/td>\n$306<\/td>\n$294<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

In the meantime, the world is expecting AMD to deliver its new family of AM3+ CPUs with Bulldozer<\/a> later this month.<\/p>\n

Intel reveals 16 new Sandybridge CPUs, cuts current prices<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Increases CPU range, shaves prices by 2-6 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}