P35 mobos

[perdomot]

Been looking around and noticed that the prices on P35 mobos remains in the $90+ range despite the two new chipsets (x38 and x48). Usually retailers want to get rid of older stock but the P35 mobos aren't getting cheaper. Is it because the new chipsets don't provide any reason to upgrade or something else?

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Originally posted by: perdomot
Been looking around and noticed that the prices on P35 mobos remains in the $90+ range despite the two new chipsets (x38 and x48). Usually retailers want to get rid of older stock but the P35 mobos aren't getting cheaper. Is it because the new chipsets don't provide any reason to upgrade or something else?

Good Q

I did a lot ... I mean a freakin' LOT of research when I did this build a few weeks ago. I'm blessed with the Southern CA electronics market and still this PC cost me more to build than any other by far.

I got the CPU online - saved me sales tax and the cost of the drive to my wholesaler, which would not guarantee the G0 stepping that I knew I could get online.

I checked all my pricing here locally for the rest of the parts and this thing still cost me over $1250 to build. It runs great but it's easily twice as expensive as I thought it would be when I started the project. Part of that was the 2 large hard drives; my original intent was to use my RAID from the last build. But those were only 160G drives and I needed more space. But even without the cost of the hard drives, it was an expensive build and the cost of the board was higher than I wished.

Gigabyte boards are cheaper but I wanted this one. And I got it!

 

[gorobei]

the X38 and X48 are high end chipsets for extreme performance boards. The p35 is the mainstream/midrange chipset. The people who by X38/48 boards aren't the same ones who will buy a P35 board. Prices won't drop until the eaglelake chipset comes out. Other than pcie2.0 support the chipset won't win any fans by having 2x pcie-x8 slots and drm friendly TXT.

 

[jdkick]

^

 

[BladeVenom]

They made the P31 for a discount board.

 

[Gillbot]

supply/demand

people are still buying p35's bacause of proven performance

 

[Modelworks]

Its because the p35 works and people aren't going to pay more for other chipsets when they aren't offering them that much more.
So demand for the p35 stays high.

 

[Sheninat0r]

P35 is the only chipset in Intel's mainstream family right now, and has really no competitors... why should they lower the price if they can keep it up and make more money?

 

[iroc409]

Remember when you could buy a good, full-featured motherboard for $100 during the Athlon XP days? The days when the uber-super-razor-ultra-edition motherboard was $150?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: iroc409
Remember when you could buy a good, full-featured motherboard for $100 during the Athlon XP days? The days when the uber-super-razor-ultra-edition motherboard was $150?

I remember getting my KT4V-L mobo AND my Athlon XP 1800+ CPU both for $150 or so. It was a deal, back when a P3 1Ghz CPU would have cost me just that for the CPU alone.

 

[perdomot]

The thing is, a couple of months ago you could get the Abit P35 version for about $60-$70. Today its in the $90+ range for the same mobo.

 

[ghost recon88]

Also the P35 consistently clocks over 550MHz FSB, whereas the X38 boards are struggling to get Prime95 stable over 500MHz without any sort of voltmod/extreme cooling. This is due in part to the extra strain put on the NB from having 32 lanes vs. the 16 of the P35.