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Guys wait a few weeks.
Its the typical overprices vendors does on new cpu's.
It will drop.
that's not a very good way to look at it.
A better way to look at it is to view it as the 2nd best cpu out there. #1 is $999, has an unlocked multiplier, and is slightly faster. the question is, how much less is this one worth? to me, $500 is much more reasonable, but they can and will charge whatever the market will bear in the absence of anything resembling competition from amd. realistically I think that it will end up closer to $800 after prices stabilize.
It wouldn't make sense anyway. AMD's hex cores are roughly equivalent to Intel's quad cores. The 1090 is fanboy priced, so I'll just ignore it. The 1055 hex core is the real price at $200. Intel's $200 processor (looking at newegg) is the i5 750. That does sound about right (media creation benchmark).If anyone was worried that the 970 would be positioned in the same price segment as the 1090T, they can stop worrying now.
The price will not drop. AMD does not have any processor capable of competing against the i7 970, so you can expect it to stay up there in the $500-1000 range.
It wouldn't make sense anyway. AMD's hex cores are roughly equivalent to Intel's quad cores. The 1090 is fanboy priced, so I'll just ignore it. The 1055 hex core is the real price at $200. Intel's $200 processor (looking at newegg) is the i5 750. That does sound about right (media creation benchmark).
The price will not drop. AMD does not have any processor capable of competing against the i7 970, so you can expect it to stay up there in the $500-1000 range.
Yea and I noticed Intel doesn't drop prices anymore. All they do when they introduce new SKUs, they just keep the pricing same, making the older one obsolete.
the sheets i saw was suposed to be 700-800 / lot
it should be at least 200 cheaper then a 980.
Hmm...GTX480 in SLI or a Core i7-970? Tough choice.
Looks like affordable 6-core Gulftowns on socket 1366 were a pipe-dream.
Would rather pay $100 more for the unlocked multiplier.
Yea and I noticed Intel doesn't drop prices anymore. All they do when they introduce new SKUs, they just keep the pricing same, making the older one obsolete.
They've been doing that for many, many years.
All you need to know when an Intel price drop comes is that whatever you are looking at will drop a price bracket, the second lowest end product will remain the same price, and the lowest product will be EOL'ed. You have two products at the lowest price with one being phased out, everything has shifted down one, and a new top is out.
Same way every price drop for a good few years.
But I think the price difference between the i7-980X and the i7-970 should be much larger.
have you heard anything recently about 32nm S1366 quad cores?
Hmm, from what I'm finding, it looks like the suggested price is actually supposed to be $885 =/.
u can already get them on the Xeon side.
Means intel went with 800 per lot, instead of the 700 per lot, or the cpu vendors are trying to milk 200 dollars off ya.
I think its the later then the former.