Sandy Bridge Pricing Leak?

Haiku214 said:
Sandybridge i7 2600 will be faster than i7 9XX series. However, people who already have an i7/i5 atm should not bother upgrading. I am already reading some posts of people who would want to upgrade nevertheless. Spend your money on something else.
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The hex core 970 and above will still be faster in multi-threaded tasks like folding, rendering, VMs, etc, DDR3 helps too, and far more PCI-E lanes.

If you also don't need the fastest, the current EOL chips are gonna be great bargains once SB comes out, and they are still future proof when it comes to gaming and less.
 
Not that i NEED them, I'm just considering my core2 duo is long in the tooth, and ya, I WOULD like to go 8 core. Guess I answered my own question...breaking the bank in January does not make alot of sense to me when 6-9 months down the road I'm looking at new architecture. Guess I can pop in a quad core to hold me off for a bit until the prices settle down, though at the moment the LGA 775 12 Mb Cache quads are retarded expensive. Maybe they'll drop when Sandy launches
 
I have a P4 and a failing hard drive lol. Might as well wait for Sandy Bridge and then upgrade immediately. I'm just worried about the price being higher than $216 for the quad-core and also what the motherboard will cost.
 
Nasty_Savage said:
Guess I can pop in a quad core to hold me off for a bit until the prices settle down, though at the moment the LGA 775 12 Mb Cache quads are retarded expensive. Maybe they'll drop when Sandy launches
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I doubt they will drop.


Best deals now are used ones and they sell for about $180. I bought my Q9550 at Microcenter for $170 + tax and sold it about a year and a half later (two weeks ago) for $180. Best cpu "investment" I have made so far.
 
for comparison, reviews had my board listed as 130usd.

it cost 139gbp which is about 60% higher then review price.
 
Eek that is expensive. What is the reasoning behind releasing the dual-core parts 5 weeks later?
 
DarrisBard said:
Eek that is expensive. What is the reasoning behind releasing the dual-core parts 5 weeks later?
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So they can devote all their yields to the chips that will be in highest demand at the initial launch period?
 
Judging by this crowd, they should produce nothing but 2500K's then. :)
 
djsb said:
So they can devote all their yields to the chips that will be in highest demand at the initial launch period?
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I think that is a good strategy. I mean the dual cores although great have a lot of competition with socket 775 and loads of AM2 to AM3 chips + i3s. With the initial early adopters fee on motherboards I do not see a lot of users jumping to this over the 20 to 40 other CPUs in a similar performance category.
 
movax said:
Got my eye on a 2600K. My E6600 Conroe has served well for 4 years, I expect the same out of Sandy Bridge. Finally ran into a game (Black Ops) that is eating my CPU, so I suppose I could upgrade...
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ooh me too!
Upgrading from early adopted E6600.after 4+ years and I plan to use this 2600K for years.
This is gonna be the next 'E6600' 'Q6600' 'i7 920' CPU. You know?
 
I hope those aren't bulk.... finally some decent prices for new chips.

You know theyll have a $999 dollar "extreme" chip though for the rich people to say neener-neener with.
 
Dylan80 said:
I hope those aren't bulk.... finally some decent prices for new chips.

You know theyll have a $999 dollar "extreme" chip though for the rich people to say neener-neener with.
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990X is going to be the "top" Intel chip until s2011. And thats still a gulftown, not a sandy.
 
Dylan80 said:
I hope those aren't bulk.... finally some decent prices for new chips.

You know theyll have a $999 dollar "extreme" chip though for the rich people to say neener-neener with.
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Not so sure about that. The fastest launch SB chip is the i7-2600K, which should replace the i7-875K, which launched at $350.
 
finny76 said:
its Funny how the SB Motherboards are already on sale?!
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There are some previews out, but I'm pretty sure you cant get one yet. If you can (specifically, a P67A-UD4) LMK and I'll grab it while I can.
 
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