Sunday, November 16th 2008
Bombs Away for Intel Core i7
Intel's eagerly anticipated Core i7 series of processors have hit retail channels today, with top online and ground stores in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe listing the processors. This, a day in advance, with the company slating the launch for November 17 originally. The Core i7 is the poster-boy for Intel's Nehalem microprocessor architecture. It is a quad-core 8-threaded processor featuring 256 KB L2 caches per core, with shared 8 MB L3 cache. Some of the listings for the processors are as follows:
Overclockers UK (₤276 ~ ₤904) | Scan UK (₤259.87 ~ ₤892.02) | Newegg US (US $319.99 ~ $1069) | Micro Center US ($299.99 ~ $999.99) | HOH Deutschland (€283,90 ~ €989,90) | NCIX Canada (CA $388.99 ~ $1443.99) | TechBuy Australia (AU $676.35 ~ $2364.20)
For the motherboards:
Newegg US ($220.99 ~ $398.99) | Overclockers UK (₤223.24 ~ ₤340.74) | HOH Deutschland (€244,90 ~ €339,90) | NCIX Canada (CA $366.18 ~ $374.99) | TechBuy Australia (AU $503.90 ~ $635.70)
Overclockers UK (₤276 ~ ₤904) | Scan UK (₤259.87 ~ ₤892.02) | Newegg US (US $319.99 ~ $1069) | Micro Center US ($299.99 ~ $999.99) | HOH Deutschland (€283,90 ~ €989,90) | NCIX Canada (CA $388.99 ~ $1443.99) | TechBuy Australia (AU $676.35 ~ $2364.20)
For the motherboards:
Newegg US ($220.99 ~ $398.99) | Overclockers UK (₤223.24 ~ ₤340.74) | HOH Deutschland (€244,90 ~ €339,90) | NCIX Canada (CA $366.18 ~ $374.99) | TechBuy Australia (AU $503.90 ~ $635.70)
146 Comments on Bombs Away for Intel Core i7
sure would be tigger! lol
As others have mentioned, its because of overclockers uk, getting the first stock and overpricing.
Most Brits have more money than sense (while other countries would suffer far lower sales given the same price), obviously people in the UK are there to be ass raped!
Importing from other EU countries is sometimes the best option...
Here's how it's now here in Portugal in the store i'm making my buys:
i7 CPUs
Asus P6T Deluxe board
Corsair 3 GB DDR3
787 euros is the minimum, @ this store, here in Portugal, and it's ~$1000 with the conversion for dollar @ 1 euro = $1.2704. There's a cheaper CPU (the 920 NOT retail) but newegg doesn't have it, so no good for the comparison.
@ newegg:
i7 CPUs
Asus P6T Deluxe board
Corsair 3 GB DDR3
$778.98 is the minimum @ newegg for the exact same setup (i7 920 BOX): wouldn't you know it: it's actually less dollars then euros? hmmmm ....
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130216
I thought all X58 boards would be $300 USD and up!!!
Well, not cheap but you know what I mean,....
the foxconn offerings wont alow for more than 2 dual slot cards either. and i dont know anyone who's gonna run 4 4850's on one. they do have a good look to them though.
The jewel in the crown for my rig though will be a FusionIO 'drive'. I WILL save for one of these for my next machine, even if it means no booze or another luxuries for a long time. They are for number crunching tasks such as encoding and memory intensive apps. In most games the benefits are negligible. As for the socket, Bloomfield is 1366 the, to be released sockets are 1567 and the mobile, 989.