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krooton

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Just looking at the prices of the new kid on the block, and didn't realise that there is nothing sub-£195!

How long do you reckon it will take before we see sub-£100 i7 chips on the market?

The fact that you can get a C2D/mobo/RAM for the price of the cheapest i7 chip doesn't make them the most attractive option.
 
Don't think you will find a sub-£100 i7 for a VERY long time.

Its an enthusiasts chip and is priced like one
 
sub £100 i7, pretty much never. i7 is intel's enthusiast class chips, so in the next year I would be surprised if any dip below £200.

However, the new i5s are coming out at the end of the year. With their integrated memory controllers and new architecture they should be faster than current c2 quads and maybe cheaper (though they will likely take up their price bracket).

Knowing intel, once they put s775 to sleep we will see some i7s and i5s with less cache and much lower bklc or multipliers. Just so they can sell them for cheap. I'm not sure if they will go below £100 for a while though.

I agree that compared to c2d they are expensive, but their sheer performance is far out of the league of even the best dual cores, so the price premium is justified. Personally, for £235 for a d0 stepping i7 you are getting a supercomputing bargain and RAM and mobo prices seem to be falling nicely.
 
Ram and mobos arent too bad really when you are looking at top end p45 x48 boards are still over £100 as are the cpu's you cant compare a complete mobo cpu ram combo under the same thing as a i7 its completely differant league
 
cmndr_andi said:
sub £100 i7, pretty much never. i7 is intel's enthusiast class chips, so in the next year I would be surprised if any dip below £200.

However, the new i5s are coming out at the end of the year. With their integrated memory controllers and new architecture they should be faster than current c2 quads and maybe cheaper (though they will likely take up their price bracket).

Knowing intel, once they put s775 to sleep we will see some i7s and i5s with less cache and much lower bklc or multipliers. Just so they can sell them for cheap. I'm not sure if they will go below £100 for a while though.

I agree that compared to c2d they are expensive, but their sheer performance is far out of the league of even the best dual cores, so the price premium is justified. Personally, for £235 for a d0 stepping i7 you are getting a supercomputing bargain and RAM and mobo prices seem to be falling nicely.
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But there aren't any more 775 chips on their roadmap are there? The E5300/E5400 being the last of the budget 775 chips.

So once 775 is buried, how will they get their budget-demographic market share?
 
Well 775 has legs yet. The Pentium Dual Core e6400 was just launched. So the sub £100 intel range likely remain 775 for a while to come. They may not debut many new chips on 775 but they will slowly lower prices to meet AMD in the budget arena.

Once 775 is completely end-of-life there will definitely be some integrated memory controller chips ready to take up their price bracket (likely dual core, dual channel memory) but based on the new architecture and possibly 32nm.
 
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