New Phenom II CPUs priced

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Soleron said:

ssj12 said:

arsenicazure said:
i7's are priced through the roof...DDR3 phenoms interesting but I'll wait for DDR3 to come down a bit first.

 

err the Core i7 920 is only $80 more than the Phenom II 940.. how is that "through the roof"?

Frankly price vs performance the Cpre i7 920 is well worth the price versus anything AMD has.

 

@Wraith - there are plenty of reasons to have a dual core version. It would be way cheaper to manufacture, half the prioce for half the cores, and give performance equal to or better than the high-end last generation quad-cores.

Motherboards. You can get an AM2+ motherboard for under $100 but the cheapest X58 one is over $220 (last time I checked). Also DDR2 is much cheaper than DDR3 (and you can use these AM3 Phenoms with a DDR2 board).

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Mainstream quad-core i7s are September; dual-core i7s are March 2010 with on-CPU integrated graphics. The graphcs will be the current G45, i.e. sucky compared to everything.

 

Check out Gigabytes new GC-EX58-UD3R.  Newegg has it listed for $199 plus a $15 Mail in rebate.    $185 isn't bad for an X58 board.

Also, the Havendale's (2 cores) are expected to release at or near the same time as the Lynnfeilds's (mainstream 4 cores), not March 2010.   That's when Westmere hits.