If you were looking into getting a piece of Quad processing goodness, then you’ll be happy to hear that Intel has lowered the price in all of it’s Core 2 Quad and Duo processors. In some of them, the difference is almost of 50%.

The Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20 GHz with 2MB 800 Mhz FSB will go on sale for $133 while the E4400 will sell for $113. Which is drop of about $20.

The best deals are in the Core 2 Quad range where the QZ6800 2.93 Ghz Core 2 Quad, 1066 Mhz FSB drops to $999. The Q6700 2.66 Ghz version will now cost $530 and the Q6600 2.40 Ghz version will be $266. In the case of the Q6600 this means cutting the price in half making the chip the only sub-$300 quad-core processor on the market.

Now… I’m certain that one of our readers just purchased his Quad processor X days ago, and to those all I can say is: sorry. But this is how the industry works, prices get lower after a while. And to those that didn’t, even though the Quad processors aren’t that amazing for gaming, yet, it might be a good idea to look into them in a near future.