Hardware Industry has witnessed significant improvement in monitor technology and major price drops in the last few years. Now high resolution HD LED monitors are available at very reasonable cost. Here is a summary of LED monitor prices from major manufacturers.

Even though 15.6, 16 and 17 inch types are still available, 18.5 inch LED monitors are now considered to be the entry level models.  Samsung has two 18.5” LED monitors – S19A100N and S19A300N first one is priced at Rs 5800 and second one is Rs 6050. LG 18.5 inch model E1941S is available for Rs 5650 and Del 1930 is priced at Rs 5450 and Viewsonic at 4825.

In 20 inch category Samsung LS20A300N is available for 6850, LG E2041T for 6000, E2051T at 6650, Del 2030M at 6000.

22 Inch LED monitors : Samsung LS22A300B – Rs 8800, LG E2241T – Rs 8550, LG E2260V – 9500 (HDMI), LG E2290V – 11,500 (HDMI, 2ms), Dell ST2220M – 7825, Acer S221HQL – 7975

In 23 inch category Acer S231HL – 9350, Samsung LS23A300B – 10,700, LS23A350HS – 11,100 (HDMI), LG E2381 – 11,600

Dell 24 inch monitor ST2420L is priced at 12,350, Samsung LS24A300B – 14,900 and Samsung S27A550H 27 inch monitor is available for Rs 19,500.

Intel second generation Sandy Bridge Core i3, i5 and i7 processors price list as of October 2011 (available in Indian hardware stores now).

These are common to all these processors

Lithography : 32nm

System Bus : 5GT/s

Max Memory : 32GB, DDR3-1066/1333, 2 Channels

Graphics : Intel HD Graphics 2000, base frequency : 850MHz, max : 1.3GHz in i7 and 1.1 GHz in i3 and i5

Due to fluctuations in currency market hardware prices changes on day to day basic so this is just to give an idea. Please check with many shops before you buy the product to get the best rate.

Intel processor price list July 2011

Core i3-2100, 3.1 GHz, 3M Cache : Rs 5,500

Core i5-2400, 3.1 GHz, 6M Cache : Rs 9,750

Core i5-2500, 3.3 GHz, 6M Cache : 10,500

Core i7-2600, 3.4 GHz, 8M Cache : Rs 16,500

Intel i7 Sandy Bridge Processor Price List

i7-2600K : 3.4 GHz, 8 MB Cache : Rs 16,300/-

i7-2600 : 3.4 GHz, 8 MB Cache : Rs 15,000/-

Intel i5 Sandy Bridge CPU Price in India

i5-2500K : 3.3 GHz, 6MB Cache : Rs 11,200/-

i5-2400 : 3.1 GHz, 6 MB Cache : 9,600/-

Intel i3 Sandy Bridge processor price in India

i3-2100 : 3.1 GHz, 3MB Cache : Rs 5,900/-

Intel was introduced 2nd generation Core processors based on new Intel Sandy Bridge micro architecture. It is purely based on 32nm processor technology and has many new features like all core and graphics units integrated in a single chip, performance boost with Turbo boost 2.0.

Sandy Bridge processor unifies processor cores, memory controller, last-level cache (LLC), and graphics and media processing which helps to improve performance and efficiency like faster graphic performance, fewer bus improves overall performance and more memory bandwidth enables overall system performance.

Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs also comes with a faster and improved graphics engine which helps to give better 3D and Video processing. New hardware-based media accelerators and graphics execution units deliver superior performance for gaming, HD video content, and 3D graphics.

Intel Sandy Bridge CPU Price in India

Core i3-2100 : 2 cores, 4 threads, 3.1 GHz, 3MB cache : Rs 6,000/-

Core i5-2300 : 4 cores, 4 threads, 2.8 GHz, Turbo 3.1 GHz, 6MB Cache : Rs 9,500/-

Core i5-2500K : 4 cores, 4 threads, 3.3 GHz, Turbo 3.7 GHz, 6MB Cache : Rs 11,500/-

Core i7-2600K : 4 cores, 8 threads, 3.4 GHz, Turbo 3.8 GHz, 8MB Cache : Rs 16,500/-

Intel Sandy Bridge CPU Motherboard Price

Intel DH67VR : Rs 4,800/-

Intel DH67BL : 5,500/-