here is my guess.
Neha will be offered on the top platform.
1 will be a dual cpu design like skulltrail. The other is a X58 chipset board.
They will take both the uber 1366 cpu's.
http://en.expreview.com/2008/0...t-nehalem-mobo-is-x58/
As you can see on that picture the X58 overlaps extreme and high end and preimum but skips mainstream.
Here is my price estimates:
X58 single cpu board ~ 270-350
X58 Skulltrail version ~ 570-700
Also factor in a 1kw psu on both class systems.
QX Class Processor, Sorry 1g chip days are over people. 1.5g's at least
Ram Only DDR3.
I did an intial run out of numbers, for the core board and system parts, i need around 5g's to be safe i wont run out of funds without knowing the exact prices on a dual cpu system.
And you subtract 1.7g from that for a single cpu system.
Oh and this is without the GPU sector.
Depending on your flavor, its gonna be XFIRE only, so if you have SLI cards, have fun with that SOLO 280GTX while im racing on my 2 or 3 Xfire HD4870X2 :T
See Nvidia shouldnt of pissed off intel.
i hate listing high numbers like this, but seems like you guys need a visual on approximation on how expensive this system will be.
Neha at release is only going to be aimed at the top 2% of the people who love computers.
The 98% will be shifted to enterprise sector.
And i bet you we'll see MAC's having them b4 any consumer.