As of July 20^th as expected, Intel to have dropped the prices of two dua- cores and one quad-core CPU. The slowest of them all is Core 2 Duo E8400 with 3GHz core clock and this one drops from its original $183 to $163 wholesale price.

The Core 2 Duo E8500 with 3.16 GHz clock drops from $266 to today’s $183. This price drop has happened almost twenty days ahead of original plan, as Intel plans to cut some more prices on the 10^th of August.

The last to drop in price is enormously popular Q6600, the Kentsfield class 65nm quad. The  core and this CPU drop from the current $224 to $193. There will be some 45nm quad-core price drops in early August, so stay tuned for that one.