Just having a look at the local Australian distributors. At wholesale level, the E8400 is cheaper by between 20% to 28% than the E6850.

While pricing is listed for the E8400 (and other E8xx's), there are of course no stock levels to purchase from as yet until the release date, however, the stock levels of the E6850 is often in the hundreds for each distributor.

I wonder what they'll be doing with all those E6xx series processors that will be displaced, if only by price, by the E8xxx series?

Yep, the E8400 is significantly cheaper then the E6850 here in the US too. It completely obsoletes the E6xxx series in price to performance ratios (IMO).
$200-220 bucks here in the US for the awesome E8400, I can't wait to buy one!

They probably won't change the prices on the E6xxx processors much (especially the higher end ones like 6850), rather Intel will stop manufacturing them soon, and phase them out (morons who don't know better will still buy them lol).

Same thing tends to happen with high end vid cards as well. They never seem to drop much in price =\

Im dyin of envy since chiadog already has an E84. Damn. I want one too!

party! cheaper, i hope it will be cheaper in euope as well!

I got it for 200 USD exact, tax waved I did have to do the secret handshake though... JK My computer shop guy knocked 10 bucks off for being a favored customer. May be it was flavored

All (home)work no play makes chiadog something something...

Dude, id do the watusi, twist, foxtrot and strip on a pole right now for a $200 E84!

Or you can just wait a few days

Dude, I come from a long line of people who are genetecally incapable of patience. I'm of the Immediate Gratefication Clan. I dont like to wait til after work to get a beer, I dont like to wait to buy CPUs and if she hasnt "finished" when I am its her tough luck.

bwahahaha Then you better get cracking on the dancing and hope someone at Intel may be arouse enough to FedEx you one overnight

If my e6750 wasn't fast enough for all my needs I'd buy one. Great price and performance, but I'll probably wait till Nahlem, and then just do total upgrade.

Must admit - I'm a hungering and hankering after a spanking wolfie for my new rig too.. (plus one of ati's new x2 cards maybe?) oooooh, hands out of ya pants and drooling on standby kids!
Ryaan

I've offered beer, pleasant conversetion, sweet scoot rides, chicks and some prime blow to both Justin and JK. Still nuthin!

I'll pass on anything issuing from the Ruiz Reject Pile, but I'm defenitely droolin on that E84!

... go crazy?

Well they are wholesaling for the same price as the E6750 so of course they're going to be rougly 20-25% cheaper than the E6850!

But, come on, you KNOW quad is the way forward.. It's such a dilema. I'm going for a beer while to calm down, while I think about it.. As for Ruiz'es pile of plop.. Lets await some sturdier benchies on that x2 card before we all start masturbating furuiously. Now where's that beer??

Zaaaba!

Actually, I'm not sure Quads are the answer right now.

Currently, few things are quad core optimized.
The Dual Cores clock much higher.

Sure, 4cores is the way of the future, but Nehalm will be hear in a year.
Really depends on a few factors which one works best for you.

Only if you do lots of video editing or you feel the need to constantly measure your e-penis.

For those who game and just do everyday stuff a dual core is in some cases better than a quad.

sure, now.. like right now.. but I'm considering building a rig in a month or two.. this is the dilema.. And excuse the sticky keyboard. 8400 (Wolfie's knocking at the door!) or 6600 solid perf.?? Remember I'll still have the rig in a year or two, and probably the same underpants too. Ooohh that cheeky 8400! 4 ghz on air, that can't be right! What's the average Kevin Blogs gonna get on decent (aqua) coolin then? (aka 3ghz on the 6600 quad) surely 4.5 ghz /5 ghz?? Anyone seen any figures being cheekily bandied around? And surely, as for the e.penis (all important) wouldn't the 8400 also equate to one big fat stiff computer ****? (ahem)
Ryan.

I wonder what thundy would say when he read this...
Can't wait to see the yorkies prices if this is this low.

Chiadog...where did u get the E8400 from? I need to buy a new processor and i need it urgently... was gonna buy an E6750 cos i thought the Penryns won't be available for another month at least.....