Intel E8400 CPU for $190 at MicroCenter - B&M only

New product. Good price. Green to OP.

Curious how MC has a higher "original" price listed, when this just came out, their stores aren't open yet, and they don't seem to have ever offered it at any other price. (Marketing BS every company does).

Awesome find OP! Thanks!

I would call before driving over. If your MC is anything like mine, they'll run you around the store for 30 minutes before concluding the 30 shown in stock are either "stuck in the back and unable to be unloaded until later in the day" or "I guess they were stolen"

Now to find a reasonable deal on an IP35 board and call it a day...

Blluitt said: Valid only for in-store purchases.
Original price 239.99 - 50 instant = 189.99

Cheapest price so far on Intel's new 45nm chip.

Should work for online, in-store purchases too (although you'll probably just need to price match at the store).


Link to email:
MC Email with E8400

There are also discounts if you bundle with Mobo and Ram listed in the link.

Enjoy!

Very tempted, but I guess I want to wait until this chip has been "field tested" by gamers, overclockers and the like. I hate being an intel alpha tester. If I wasn't planning to overclock it, I would be all over this. Now to decide if I still want to order a Q6600...

slickms said: Intel is cutting prices for this starting tomorrow 1/20. So the "Original price" 239.99 should now be $183.

Full schedule for price cut.
Linky
I have a MOBO set up and just waiting for a processor. I hope store prices will go down in a few days.

I just got the abit ip35e and was thinking about the q6600. This MC deal is tempting, but since your post tells me I can wait, I will wait.

The new quads will be cheaper, but with less cache. Does anyone know if they are better/worse then the q6600?

thanks

jambuckles said: Very tempted, but I guess I want to wait until this chip has been "field tested" by gamers, overclockers and the like. I hate being an intel alpha tester. If I wasn't planning to overclock it, I would be all over this. Now to decide if I still want to order a Q6600...

Amen brother! If this was just a die shrink I won't worry but it has 47 new SSE4 instructions, and various technological improvements over the current 65 nm Conroe-based processors. I want to replace my Pentium-D so badly but I don't want to deal with initial stepping bugs. Thats my 2 cents.

But I have to drive pass them on Monday for work. I'll try to resist the temptation .

mcwhitman said: slickms said: Intel is cutting prices for this starting tomorrow 1/20. So the "Original price" 239.99 should now be $183.

Full schedule for price cut.
Linky
I have a MOBO set up and just waiting for a processor. I hope store prices will go down in a few days.

I just got the abit ip35e and was thinking about the q6600. This MC deal is tempting, but since your post tells me I can wait, I will wait.


The new quads will be cheaper, but with less cache. Does anyone know if they are better/worse then the q6600?

thanks

considering these chips can overclock above 4.0ghz with EASE, I think these chips would do pretty well on any applications that cannot utilize 4 threads.

I read one E8400 engineering sample was able to overclock to 4.6ghz on AIR.

Axelerate said: i highly doubt u can reach 4ghz with these, let alone pass it. (maybe if you pump 1.5v+ on the chip, but is that worth it?) you might have read reviews stating that "it can pass 4ghz with no problems" but intel sends revieweres different chips then the retail. They depend on the reviewers to get us to buy it, so the smart thing to do is send them the "creme of the crop". Im saying this because they said the same thing regarding e6850 passing 4ghz easy, but i still have to hit 4ghz stable.(3.8ghz was doable with everything overvolted to extremes, but i rather have it at 3.6 with no headaches)

i can tell you it will overclock to 3.6ghz without or with very little voltage increase (depends on your luck of chip), because of less heat. The problem with overvolting these chips is that it will shorten the life or burnout the cpu since they are 45nm. The sweetspot should be the highest clock you can get around intel's recommended voltage and stay there. good luck!
also this is as good as the price will get, the price chart shown above is for wholesale prices, the shelf price will be $189 which will be replacing the price range of the e6750.

these will get to 4.0 ghz with only 1.45-1.48 volts (taking account of VDroop it will only be around 1.4-1.45 volts depends on your motherboard)

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_12.html

1.5v for overclocking is more than acceptable, your CPU will be much too outdated when it burns out after 5-6 years after overclocking.

Trust me, these will not be selling at $189, whole sale price is $184 and you think all the retailer will only take a $5 profit? Check the current prices online. This is why I think this microcenter deal is hot because it will not last.

mcwhitman said: The only question is will the new quads be as good since they are only a little more...

Yes, the new quad cores will have 12MB l2 cache and should be blazingly fast.

I'm debating whether to buy the E8400 or wait for the new quad cores to come out. Any idea when that will be?

woojin said: new quads in late feb or march.

the lowest quad q9450 might be the same time as the e8500 on the 21st of january.

as stated at this e-tailer http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/Product/Intel/BX80569Q9450

What about the Q9300 (2.5GHz core)?

OOS at my local MicroCenter
"call back tomorrow see if any come on the next truck [shipment]"

Menx said: BassKozz said: OOS at my local MicroCenter
"call back tomorrow see if any come on the next truck [shipment]"

are you in chicago? they told me the same thing.
Boston

Axelerate said: i highly doubt u can reach 4ghz with these, let alone pass it. (maybe if you pump 1.5v+ on the chip, but is that worth it?) you might have read reviews stating that "it can pass 4ghz with no problems" but intel sends revieweres different chips then the retail. They depend on the reviewers to get us to buy it, so the smart thing to do is send them the "creme of the crop". Im saying this because they said the same thing regarding e6850 passing 4ghz easy, but i still have to hit 4ghz stable.(3.8ghz was doable with everything overvolted to extremes, but i rather have it at 3.6 with no headaches)

i can tell you it will overclock to 3.6ghz without or with very little voltage increase (depends on your luck of chip), because of less heat. The problem with overvolting these chips is that it will shorten the life or burnout the cpu since they are 45nm. The sweetspot should be the highest clock you can get around intel's recommended voltage and stay there. good luck!
also this is as good as the price will get, the price chart shown above is for wholesale prices, the shelf price will be $189 which will be replacing the price range of the e6750.

Well, I did it....I overclocked this processors on only 1.5v and I got 4185 GHZ ON AIR!!!

I didn't try to see what the lowest voltage needed to overclock to 4.0 ghz but I suspect it's alot lower.

The Vcore is actually not very high because my motherboard (Abit Ip35 Pro's Vdroop at 1.5v is actually about 1.40v max), which is perfectly acceptable for a CPU like this, the temperature under orthos does not pass 50C. It idles at 22C and gets to 45C under normal 100% load.

I was actually able to perform many benchmarks at 4.39ghz but Orthos was not stable. At 4.39ghz, I was able to complete SuperPI, Sandra XII CPU Arithmetic, and the speed was AMAZING. 40%+ faster than an AMD X2 6000. Within almost neck and neck against a Q6600, which is pretty amazing since Sandra XII utilizes all 4 cores of Q6600.

In Sandra XII, at 4195 ghz
Drystone ALU is 38609 MIPs --- 12% slower than a Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
--- 31% faster than a Intel X6800 @ 2.93 ghz
--- 44% faster than an AMD X2 6000 @3.0ghz

Whetstone is 30860 MFlops --- 2% faster than a Q6600 @2.4 ghz
--- 40% faster than a Intel X6800
--- 40% faster than an AMD X2 6000 @3.0ghz

Since Sandra is optimized for multi-cored CPUs and utilizes all cores that are available. So the results are actually amazing considering E8400 only got 2 cores.

SuperPi 1M is an amazing 10.767 seconds.

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SilverZero said: I ordered an E8400 from Mwave for $209 + $8-ish shipping. Sergio (online chat) said they were still in stock.
Newegg = $225 shipped (free 3 day)
Mwave = $217'ish shipped (ground 4-5day)

Only $8'ish bucks more, and you get it faster from a more reliable company...
Newegg FTW IMHO!!!

buyer's market, competitive pricing rules. nothin' wrong with SilverZero's post.

Mwave has been around for as long i can remember and they're pretty reliable. unless you've
ordered from both, how would you know Newegg is a more reliable company?

Monk3y said: Screw Newegg, they used to be reliable and cheap at the same time. Now you have to pay extra for their good service.

You might wanna watch out for lightning strikes in the near future, bro.

WOW! Someone not price gouging!!! What a deal!

Good for Microcenter.....Boo to Gougers like Newegg.

i got an order confirmation from them

w000000000t!! eat that Newegg!

i never had any problems with Mwave either. just too many Newegg viral marketers on the internet spewing some BS