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$180 dollars for Intel's lowest binned i5? Am I the only one who sees this as being very pricey? It couldn't possible cost that much more to produce over the i3. I mean you can get a Llano quad for $80 whats up with that?
/Endrant
pre-order from Monarch Computer (who remembers them?)
Suck it up, buttercup.![]()
I think what OP is complaining about is the lack of competition on pricing between AMD and Intel. The 2500K has been more or less the same price, $200, for 18 months now. Same with the 2600K.
What competition are you referring to?
And I thought $174 for my X2 3000+ Venice single core I paid to pre-order from Monarch Computer (who remembers them?) was a good deal back in April '05. Damn these quad cores for starting about that price! Think about the return on investment you're getting from a performance standpoint...you're entering the territory of the fastest consumer level CPUs available on the planet.
Suck it up, buttercup.![]()
There is no such thing as an athlon x2 3000. And if you really did pay 174 dollars for a 3000+ at launch then I dont think you got a good deal at all. I paid 150 bucks for my 3000+ at launch and that was the most expensive cpu ive ever bought in my life.
For how fast the i5s are I think they are very cheap.
Almost 6 years ago we launched the Intel® Core 2 Duo's; at that time I brought an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz for $237. This was a processor that could beat almost anything that had come before but it wasn't close to beating other processors in the Intel Core 2 Duo line up like the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 and the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 would simply blow it out of the water.
With the Intel Core i5's you are really getting a close to the top of the line processor for less then I paid for an almost entry level Intel Core 2 Duo processor 6 years ago.
$180 dollars for Intel's lowest binned i5? Am I the only one who sees this as being very pricey? It couldn't possible cost that much more to produce over the i3. I mean you can get a Llano quad for $80 whats up with that?
/Endrant
the CPU side of Llano underwhelms compared to as little as PentiumG620 - which is a cut-down i3; don't even try to compare the CPU side of Llano to full-size i3, let alone i5 (K or non-K).
$180 dollars for Intel's lowest binned i5? Am I the only one who sees this as being very pricey? It couldn't possible cost that much more to produce over the i3. I mean you can get a Llano quad for $80 whats up with that?
/Endrant
In a head to head race to encode the super mario brothers movie in handbrake at identical encode settings, my Athlon II X4 was about %30 faster at doing the same encode job.