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Will Intel® Core™i7 (Bloomfield/X58) owners be able to afford an upgrade?

Isnt it already known that the 920 will be replaced with the 930 near the end of february, at the same bin price, with a slightly higher 2.8ghz stock speed. The 1366 wont get the budget i3/i5 parts, but it will still get a fairly cheap entry level (to the performance platform) part. Im confident that intel will release 32nm quads for the 1366 plaform, even if these are just "failed 6 core" parts initially.
 
I am stick with my i7 core 920 for next 2 more years until 2012 before I decide to upgrade, but I might change to AMD because Intel cost too much these day now.

Intel are expensive, but they are still a fair bit faster clock for clock, and overclock better. Performance is what you pay for with intel, and AMD sell their "slightly" slower chips are a bargain price simply because they cant compete with intel for Tech at the moment.

I wouldnt like to guarantee that AMD's next generation part will be cheaper than intels... All depends on what improvements intel can make to their platform at the time.

When it was P4 V AMD's Athlon64, AMD had the performance advantage and didnt really need to keep the prices down, they certainly were not the bargain prices we see on AMD today. By the time AMD have a processor that is actually an upgrade to your high end overclocked intel system, the prices could be considerably differed :P.
 
Isnt it already known that the 920 will be replaced with the 930 near the end of february, at the same bin price, with a slightly higher 2.8ghz stock speed
I wasn't aware of that when the thread was started

17th Sep 2009

Intel are expensive, but they are still a fair bit faster clock for clock, and overclock better. Performance is what you pay for with intel, and AMD sell their "slightly" slower chips are a bargain price simply because they cant compete with intel for Tech at the moment
I personally know *exactly* what you mean Corasik but one must be careful with the rhetoric one uses as it's becoming evident that the Intel options are *only* faster used within certain parameters . . .

In general your post is fairly innocuous but there are some who may take it at face value. I hope you don't take this as a criticism in any way but I am merely pointing out how your words *may* be perceived. I'm aware you are a long standing member of the community and your intentions are to help people so just a heads up! :)
 
Intel are expensive, but they are still a fair bit faster clock for clock, and overclock better. Performance is what you pay for with intel, and AMD sell their "slightly" slower chips are a bargain price simply because they cant compete with intel for Tech at the moment.
 
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