E4300 @Newegg
 

Finally at retail in the U.S.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115013

Seems not a convincing price for the average joe. this chip should be cheaper because it's slower. But it's priced the same as the E6300....

In be:

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/14904...)-prijzen.html

vs

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/13960...)-prijzen.html

yep, and it's not like the Core 2s are unpopular under overclocker

price max should be €130 for this chip to be interesting, €2 difference with E6300 makes no sense

It's NewEgg, they do this with all recently launched hardware they expect to be somewhat hot. Listing the QX6700 for $1,600 out of the gates when they had plenty of stock was a good indicator of this.

no, it's not just newegg, same high pricing can be seen in other shops, States side or here in Europe http://www.alternate.de/html/product...l?artno=HPFI47

Why? Because of them OC'ers :), the less than 1% of PC users (amounts to thousands) giving the merchants a chance to make a few more $.

I really don't think this pricing schedule is "because of the OCers", Intel will drop price of E4300 to ~$130 in Q2-Q3, this is Intel pricing, not the shops:)