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how much will ivy bridge cost?

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Each CPU replacement (for example, 3570K and 2500K) will cost either the same or $5-10 more because of no competition from AMD (see how the 2600K's price rose by $10 a month ago).
 
$225 is about what the 2500K class of CPU cost with just about every generation of Intel CPU.

2000, I bought a P3 550e for about that price, maybe more. It was the equivalent of the 2500k in it's day.

Factor in inflation, and performance costs less today
 
wow 225 is soo much for the performance you get....I remember paying 225 for a pentium 1 60mhz,265 for a pentium mmx 200mhz,300 for a p3 700,260 for an athlon and so on and so on and the dollar was worth a hell of a lot more back then and even gas was under a buck for 93 oct.

if anything these are record breaking lows for pricing for the performance that you get.

200 bucks is one night out in Boston.

27 for parking,20 to get into most decent places,12-14 a drink plus tips and then some food for after hours.
 
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grkM3 said:
wow 225 is soo much for the performance you get....I remember paying 225 for a pentium 1 60mhz,265 for a pentium mmx 200mhz,300 for a p3 700,260 for an athlon and so on and so on and the dollar was worth a hell of a lot more back then and even gas was under a buck for 93 oct.

if anything these are record breaking lows for pricing for the performance that you get.
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You also have to consider the size of the market. Back then, there weren't as many computers as there are today. So Intel charging that much for a CPU today, is making MUCH more money, overall, than they were making charging the same amount for a CPU back then.

It's all about the volume.
 
VirtualLarry said:
You also have to consider the size of the market. Back then, there weren't as many computers as there are today. So Intel charging that much for a CPU today, is making MUCH more money, overall, than they were making charging the same amount for a CPU back then.

It's all about the volume.
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pentium 1 launched at 800+ per cpu tho and the pentium pro was around 1000

pentium 2 was over 700 in 1000 unit prices and that was for the 233mhz version,I cant believe how much I had to pay for cpus back in the day.

read this and you guys wont ever complain about todays prices and remember 800 bucks back then is like 2 grand today.

http://news.cnet.com/New-Pentium-II,-price-cuts-arrive/2100-1001_3-207403.html

I wish I was making this up but I remember buying a creative labs 4x cd rom drive and sound card for 500 dollars and 4 megabytes of ram was 200
 
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There are rumours that Intel might cut costs of each
Ivy CPU by about $20-80 or so, though that is unlikely IMO and I wouldn't bank on it.

Anyway, $225 for an Ivy 3570k + $175 for a decent Z77 mobo which beats every AMD CPU in everything on earth at stock, and gives 50% more performance when overclocked. I don't see how that is too much.

That is the maximum performance/$ we have ever seen in the history of computing.
 
While I certainly agree that for the performance the 2500K/2600K or 3570K/3770K prices are ok compared to historical prices of mid to high end CPUs or Extremes, I also agree that they are expensive...

Let me explain: I tend to buy cheap CPUs and overclock them. I currently run an overclocked Pentium E5300 on a cheap Gigabyte G31 mobo. Total outlay about £90 for both. Since Intel stopped normal overclocking with Sandy Bridge there's nothing in my price range from Intel.

While AMD still allow normal overclocks my computer is mostly idle and only Lano or BD have decent idles but both of those are stop-gaps without upgrade paths. Ironically, even BD with it's poor load power usage idles well and my computer spends 80-90% of its time idling so the load usage wouldn't necessarily scare me off.)
 
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