If Intel's Sandy Bridge predicament has left you second guessing your next CPU upgrade, now might be a good time to look back at the chip giant's previous-generation LGA1366.
Over the course of the past weekend, Intel has slashed the cost of two high-end LGA1366 parts; the quad-core Core i7 960 and the hexa-core Core i7 970.
The former, a 3.2GHz hyper-threaded Bloomfield part, has been given a very healthy 48 per cent price cut. The 130W chip might date back to 2009, but it still runs rings around most benchmarks and now costs under £240* - that's tempting when you consider the same chip cost over £460 this time last week.
If it's mega-muscle you're after, the 32nm 3.2GHz Core i7 970 touts six hyper-threaded cores and has seen its pricing tumble from over £650 to under £450*. That's still not pocket-change, but the fact that this is Intel's cheapest-ever hexa-core part might have you interested.
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