SB based Pentiums on the way

[Cerb]

People don't take it seriously because comparing CPU cost is the wrong way to go about it. You need to compare overall system cost. And the CPU is such a overwhelming component of system performance (and one of the hardest to replace) that it should be one of the last areas you skimp on.

You clearly are not big vendor. It is such a large part of system cost, therefor it is precisely where you want to skimp on, first and foremost, with distracting advertising to make the system look better for the money than it is. If big OEMs did not think this way, BIY and white box shops would have been dead years ago.

 

[aphelion02]

Of course I was speaking from the perspective of a DIYer. I was also addressing someone who was speaking to the perspective of a system builder. A CPU is a small component of system cost relative to its impact on system performance.

 

[sm625]

After seeing all those 15.6" notebooks with a C-50 in them I cant help but agree with Cerb about oems. They are ridiculously cheap; they would sell a 286 if there was one available in the latest socket. And I'm not talking about an $800 system. I'm talking about taking a $158 cpu/mobo/ram combo and stuffing them into a case/psu/hdd that you get for free because it is heading for the trash heap or goodwill. It's crazy that you can put together a system for so little money, especially one that can (almost) run crysis.

 

[exar333]

You clearly are not big vendor. It is such a large part of system cost, therefor it is precisely where you want to skimp on, first and foremost, with distracting advertising to make the system look better for the money than it is. If big OEMs did not think this way, BIY and white box shops would have been dead years ago.

This.

When you are talking about a $200-400 PC (like Dell or HP sells to businesses) cutting the CPU cost from $110 to 70, for example, translates to some real cost savings even when you take volume discounts into account.