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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.