Intel is happily enjoying the successful launch of Nehalem CPUs and after November 17th, the launch day of this CPU, it doesn’t really plan to launch many new quad-cores with the exception of Q8300.

This is a 2.5GHz CPU with FSB 1333, but this time it has 4MB of L2 cache. It will be priced at $224, and it looks very similar to Core 2 Quad Q9300 as it works at the same clock and has the same FSB but the Q9300 has 6MB L2 cache and costs $266.

This CPU sits on top of Q8200 clocked at 2.33GHz with FSB 1333 and 4MB cache that is currently selling for $193 and the most famous 65nm quad-core Q6600 at its 2.4GHz clock, FSB 1066 and 7MB cache that is selling for $183 and represents Intel’s cheapest quad-core to date.