Are mobos for Intel CPUs generally more expensive due to seperate Northbridge?

[NaOH]

??? Or is it largely because of something else?

 

[Aluvus]

Many AMD-compatible boards have a separate Northbridge and Southbridge. The difference is more that Intel just charges a relatively high price for its chipsets.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Intel gouges on their chipsets, at least when they are new. Motherboard makers charge extra for Core 2 right now because of intel's pricing and to recover the development costs.

Socket 939 has great motherboards cheap because it's mature tech with costs recovered a long time ago.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
Many AMD-compatible boards have a separate Northbridge and Southbridge. The difference is more that Intel just charges a relatively high price for its chipsets.

You mean the older boards right? Before they had a on-die memory controller.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY

Originally posted by: Aluvus
Many AMD-compatible boards have a separate Northbridge and Southbridge. The difference is more that Intel just charges a relatively high price for its chipsets.

You mean the older boards right? Before they had a on-die memory controller.

No, new boards often have 2 chips too.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2764&p=2
The high end has 2 chips, the low end has a single chip. The new 4x4 motherboard uses 2x680a chipsets as well.