Sounds like a good deal. Retail it goes for $220-ish, I haven't checked OEM prices. I've been in the market for either this or the 6600. Tough choice. 6600 has more cache and is a bit faster in benchmarks, but is also almost $100 more. The 6400 seems to be the sweet spot right now.
Has anyone tried to order online for pick-up and PM at B&M with the coupon? It's good deal if that works (I have not bought anything at MC) since I'm building new system. TIA.
NOTE: for all the links, it looks like there was a 1 time 10-digit code on the end of the links, so I removed it and this is why it'll show "order number: 000000000" on the coupon.. bar code doesn't change, so should be fine.
Siniminister said:What's in a month/month-and-a-half? I admittedly don't pay attention to the business like I used to.
Intel has stopped making the E6300/E6400 line and reintroducing it with 4mb L2 cache for the same price. They will be called E6320 and E6420. Once they come out E6300 and E6400 procs will be obsolete and prices will drop faster than Jimmy Hoffa and his Cement shoes
FYI, Prices of the E6600 and E6700 are also scheduled to be slashed a significant amount, it pays to wait a bit
cyberkost said:Any idea if the e-mail was sent to everybody who has ever shopped at MicroCenter (and who did not opt out), or only to a few heavy spenders?
What siminimister said. This is a great price if you are building tomorrow. Or the next day. I'm accumulating parts now and although it's tempting I read that I'll get much more bang for my bucks if I can wait a month or two. Of course that's always the case isn't it?
I've only ordered from them online once or twice and got the email with the coupon(s). Not sure if I opted into anything special when I ordered from them or not - creates a coupon with a unique "order number" code on it. The url of the link includes this order number...
change the url and you get a new coupon code with a new order number code on it...
replace the 1234567890 with a 10 digit number (in both places of the URL). My actual code starts with a 146604xxxx so if you want to make it look like a real one, start it with those digits....
roadman said:Siniminister said:What's in a month/month-and-a-half? I admittedly don't pay attention to the business like I used to.
Intel has stopped making the E6300/E6400 line and reintroducing it with 4mb L2 cache for the same price. They will be called E6320 and E6420. Once they come out E6300 and E6400 procs will be obsolete and prices will drop faster than Jimmy Hoffa and his Cement shoes
FYI, Prices of the E6600 and E6700 are also scheduled to be slashed a significant amount, it pays to wait a bit
That's exactly what I was looking for to justify holding off for a month or so and getting the 4mb cache (in either the E6600 or one of the newer chips). THANK YOU!
Same applies for other chips (E6700 and X6800). Shipping looks to be around 6 bucks for one of them.
Thanks, forgot to add the others.
Btw, despite knowing that prices are going to fall in a couple of months, I decided to jump on it. The way I justified it to myself was "$30 more in 2 months for an extra 2 MB of cache...hmmm, maybe I should just get it today". Hope I don't kick myself in the butt too hard 2 months down the line
Btw, despite knowing that prices are going to fall in a couple of months, I decided to jump on it. The way I justified it to myself was "$30 more in 2 months for an extra 2 MB of cache...hmmm, maybe I should just get it today". Hope I don't kick myself in the butt too hard 2 months down the line
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