deal on i7-860

It's been that price since i5 750, i7 860 launch. :)
The 750 was $180 at launch but they lowered it to $160 a week later.
 
In Pittsburgh we have neither. We had compusa, but their prices were not good and they went bankrupt. The only place that I know of that sells components now is Best Buy and I surely am not going to pay $200 for a 1TB hard drive or $60 for 2GB DDR2 of ram.. There is a MC in Cleavland however which is 130 miles away.


[EDIT]Somehow typed Pittsburgh wrong. Fixed now. No, I did not miss the h at the end. I have lived here all of my life..[/EDIT]
 
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Hmmm...$60 in gas...$8 in tolls...a town with nothing in it...suddenly a road trip to Cleveland doesn't sound so enticing and you'd be better off just spending the extra cash and get one from Newegg.
 
kirbyrj said:
Hmmm...$60 in gas...$8 in tolls...a town with nothing in it...suddenly a road trip to Cleveland doesn't sound so enticing and you'd be better off just spending the extra cash and get one from Newegg.
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I don't know. it might be close cost-wise... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115214&cm_re=i7-860-_-19-115-214-_-Product

But hey, I'm the knucklehead. I bought the -920. I guess it will prove superior in gaming if I go SLi (or Crossfire).
T
 
Maryland's MicroCenter took over CompUSA's location. I was so excited when I saw the banner go up. I used to goto the one in Boston.

5 minutes from MicroCenter FTW!!!
 
hungryJonJon said:
Maryland's MicroCenter took over CompUSA's location. I was so excited when I saw the banner go up. I used to goto the one in Boston.

5 minutes from MicroCenter FTW!!!
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I remember that location (didn't CompUSA take it over from the Not-So-Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company?); Ross (more than just clothes for less) and TJMaxx (same sort of thing; in fact, they are owned by the same company, the TJX Group, which also owns Marshall's) directly abut them, as does Dollar Tree (great bargains on COLD sodas and juices compared to MC; go there instead). Trader Joe's (killer pricing on organic groceries; literally THE best pricing on REAL organic tortilla chips anywhere, including Harris Teeter) is two doors down.

The Fairfax/Vienna VA location (Pan Am Shopping Center, next to Michael's Nursery and Crafts, and at the opposite end from Safeway) is also choice (two blocks' walk from the Vienna Metro subway station, the same distance from Arlington Boulevard/US 50, and two miles from the City of Fairfax via Lee Highway/US 29, which the shopping center abuts). Between the two locations, they have pretty much the entire DC area covered.
 
kirbyrj said:
The 920 sounds like a better deal if the 860 is that price.
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It was a hard deal to pass up. :) I guess I can now look forward to upgrading one day to the 6-core i7 processor (for socket 1366) one day down the road. Saving pennies now to get the budget-friendly ASRock X58 Extreme mother board. One day new combat flight sims will be able to use all the cores I can throw at them, and I'll be ready. ;) Meanwhile a new crop of GPUs are just around the corner. The ATi 5870 sounds like a beast, and Nvidia might even get the silicone right and send it's 300 series GPUs to the market by year's end.
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I think the 920 is still a better deal for very little more if any. Basically the money you save on the cpu makes up for the additional cost in mobos. If you want a decent mobo for 860, you have to pay at a minimum of $150 if not closer to $200. You can get decent X58 mobos for around $200 and possibly less with rebates. So it pretty much equals out which to me means just stick with 920's for now.

As far as the fry guys go, I heard they will pricematch microcenter. I do not have one here so I do not know for sure and it may just be in the cities that have both.
 
kirbyrj said:
The 920 sounds like a better deal if the 860 is that price.
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X58 is overkill if you're thinking single-GPU, and lots of folks have no desire for SLI or CrossFireX (hence i5 and P55, and, to an extent, why i7-860 exists).

While i7-860 costs more than i7-920, the lower price for P55 motherboards makes up for it (and then some; at MC, the price spread on the processors puts -860 at a $30 disadvantage, which is more than made up by the motherboard savings).

ASUS' middle-end 1156 mobo costs $60 less than their lowest-end X58 mobo.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0317310 (P7P55D EVO)

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0304486 (P6T)

With just motherboard and CPU alone, i7-860 now costs $30 less than i7-920. Unless you are thinking multi-GPU, you change literally nothing else, and you still have that $30 in your pocket you didn't have before. Also, while you can certainly go dual-channel with X58, how many actually do?

Lastly, what advantage (at stock) is there for i7-920 over i7-860 (dual-channel/single-GPU vs. dual-channel/single GPU)? From the testing [H] has done, it's in the single digits, if that. If the difference is so small as to not be really noticeable, why pay it?
 
...except the i9 won't be on LGA1156, so $30 extra might be worth it if you plan on upgrading to a newer CPU next year.
 
kirbyrj said:
...except the i9 won't be on LGA1156, so $30 extra might be worth it if you plan on upgrading to a newer CPU next year.
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True, but I think that would be more practical for people who are willing to spend big bucks on very expensive CPU, in which case they would have invested in the x58 board anyway. Those i9 would probably cost like an extreme edition CPU for awhile

For users who are looking for a more affordable system (thus the 1115 platform) those i9 would not be a CPU they would spend on anyway

By the time i9 becomes affordable, there would be new boards out there with all the new SATA and USB3.0 goodies
 
AmongTheChosenX said:
at a hefty price for just the CPU, i dont know if it'd really be worth the cost :/
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No one knows how much Gulftown is going to be yet. Amd is releasing a 6 core desktop processor and intel will most likely have I9 models like it has I7 and I5. Rumor is the base model 2.4Ghz Gulftown will be 399.99
 
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