Intel’s dual-core Intel Pentium D
Intel’s dual-core Intel Pentium D products are relatively affordable: $241, $316 or $530 – depending on the speed-bin and model – for 820 (2.80GHz), 830 (3.00GHz) or 840 (3.20GHz) chips respectively. Intel Pentium Extreme Edition processor 840 that also runs at 3.20GHz, but with HT technology enabled, costs $999 in 1000-unit quantities and is available now. Despite of the pricing, the demand for Intel Pentium D processors is low, according to mainboard makers. Unfortunately, the sources do not give any particular reasons for this, as demand is stimulated by pricing of the whole computer platform as well as performance of the whole platform.
