Intel to up 45nm Core 2 Extreme prices by 50% next year

[Azza]

Intel to up 45nm Core 2 Extreme prices by 50% next year

Upcoming 'Penryn'-based 45nm high-end quad-core CPUs may well attract an even higher price premium than before, it has emerged. Intel has apparently informed customers that next year's Core 2 Extreme processors will cost up to 50 per cent more than today's models.

They are already seriously expensive.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

As long as it's just for their re-badged Xeons and not for the mainstream chips then it isn't really a big deal.
If you want the best of the best you pay the premium. I know I'd be happy sticking to the mainstream and clocking to close the performance gap, as would most people on these forums.

 

[Justintime]

I do wonder if AMD were performance kings atm or had a very competitive product, if Intel would be milking it so much. Reminds me back in the early P6 days when they charged an arm and a leg for everything.

 

[james.miller]

I do wonder if AMD were performance kings atm or had a very competitive product, if Intel would be milking it so much.

if amd were performance kings then amd would be milking it.

Reminds me back in the early P6 days when they charged an arm and a leg for everything.

i really can not agree with that. top end models are always expensive, whatever it is (top end opterons?) but to say intel is overcharging for everything?

.....my £45 e2160 wouldnt agree. hell, a q6600 @ ~£165 is just incredible value.this time last year people were paying that much for opteron 148's.

 

[randal]

IMO you're a fool for shelling that amount of money into an Extreme when the same performance can be had for buying a slightly lower spec'd CPU and clocking it. Chances are if you're spending that kinda money on a CPU, you'll be buying the board and memory good enough to go with it so they'd stand up to the O/C.

2p!

 

[CyZMyAssBaby]

Intel were bound to do that though its part of their marketing strategy which applied to the current extreme for example the QX6850. If the 45nm extreme processor is less heat restrictive then it may be the overclocking yeilds may be extra ordinary

just my 3p worth

 

[Dist]

IMO you're a fool for shelling that amount of money into an Extreme when the same performance can be had for buying a slightly lower spec'd CPU and clocking it. Chances are if you're spending that kinda money on a CPU, you'll be buying the board and memory good enough to go with it so they'd stand up to the O/C.

2p!

This is what i never get, why do people compare a low end CPU thats overclocked to a high end cpu? Yes the low end can be overclocked to perform as well as a stock high end, but if you intend to overclock, the high end CPU can also be overclocked, going beyond what the low end cpu can overclock to.

 

[El Jimben]

.....my £45 e2160 wouldnt agree. hell, a q6600 @ ~£165 is just incredible value.this time last year people were paying that much for opteron 148's.

I paid £100 for a brand new retail x2 3800 last August so I doubt that somehow! You're right though, £165 for a quad core CPU is a very good buy.

 

[randal]

This is what i never get, why do people compare a low end CPU thats overclocked to a high end cpu? Yes the low end can be overclocked to perform as well as a stock high end, but if you intend to overclock, the high end CPU can also be overclocked, going beyond what the low end cpu can overclock to.

My point was you can get "extreme" performance for smaller amounts of cash, of course the extreme may clock beyond (in theory anyway) - at least you'd hope anyway.

 

[Jokester]

This is what i never get, why do people compare a low end CPU thats overclocked to a high end cpu? Yes the low end can be overclocked to perform as well as a stock high end, but if you intend to overclock, the high end CPU can also be overclocked, going beyond what the low end cpu can overclock to.

I haven't found that with the current Conroes, my Q6600 is Prime stable at 4GHz, my QX6850 is Prime stable at 3.95GHz.

Better spending that money on a decent MB, GPU, RAM...

Jokester

 

[Justintime]

This is what i never get, why do people compare a low end CPU thats overclocked to a high end cpu? Yes the low end can be overclocked to perform as well as a stock high end, but if you intend to overclock, the high end CPU can also be overclocked, going beyond what the low end cpu can overclock to.

Theres no low or high end, only real difference really is a programmed multiplier and different cpuid. All of my lower end core 2s were able to compete within 1-200Mhz or best any high end cpu rig i overclocked. The extra spent on good RAM, Board and Cooling still was no where near what the 'high end' cpu would cost (hundreds less, same or better performance as they both reached about the same overclocked speed in the end). Those cpus are good for non overclockers, and before peeps say i'm jealous or if i had the cash i'd buy it, i got the disposable cash to burn for a few of those QX cpus, i'm just not willing to

 

[Corasik]

Extreme CPU's are just there for people who want to pay more for the name.

Its kinda opposite of cars. People pay over the odds to get the BMW badge, just to end up with a bottom of the range cloth seats 1 series. Terrible value for money. On the other hand pick the right model, and you can have a luxury saloon car, with a huge list of extras, and the price is actually quite sensible.

Considering there will always be some people with more money than sence, then intel can charge whatever they like for their premium processor. I certainly wouldnt say intel are milking it. Their value and midrange processors are extremely good value for money overclocked.. or even running at stock.

 

[Kanifee]

Some people refuse to overclock, that is why they spend silly money on products that are quite hounestly compared to lower value pieces pointless.
i have a friend who refuses to OC so much so that he thinks intel speedstep damages cpu's because of the constant changes in front side bus and voltage. now i have no idea atall if he is correct or not but frankly i dont care as ill never have it long enough to see the effects and i doubt neither the person i sell it to either. but he will pay a premium for a product that is proberbly in all hounesty exactly the same as the on £100 cheaper, i have of course constantly reminded him of his stupidity and ignorance but he is stuburn like a lot of poeple. Hence this is why there are product lines like the extreme series otherwise there would be one or two c2d cpus with a massive price gap ie one low end and one high end with the earlier being crippled so that there is no way it could ever reach any were near its high end brother. and proberbly only on quad core for seriously silly money that no one but a lawyer could aford. So think your self lucky that there is people that pay a premium to own a high end cpu otherwise most of us will be constricted to the lower ranks.