It has been a couple of months since AMD threw down the gauntlet on Intel with its lower-priced Llano lineup , and now Chipzilla’s responded with some new bargain basement Sandy Bridge silicon . The refresh includes 11 new desktop CPUs: a Core i5 chip, three Core i3s, and a handful of twin-core Pentium and Celeron processors to boot. There also are five new mobile chips, including three new quad-core Core i7s (2960XM, 2860QM, and 2760QM), and the twin-core Core i7-2640M and Celeron B840. In a separate nod to those tough economic times, Intel cut the costs on some of its existing models, too. Granted, it is just a six-percent discount on the most, but we’re sure you may put those dollars to good use elsewhere for your next DIY rig.
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