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Intel Could Price its Next Highest Offering At Moderate Price

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It's still a thousand dollars.

People flip out when their video card cost 500 instead of 199, but when they sell a CPU at 1000.00USD no one says anything.

Video cards get better faster, CPUs don't seem to need replacing *as much*. How much better does a Q9600 perform over a Q6600? Not a heck of a lot, I'd say. Now look at the difference between the x1950xtx and the 4870. Similar time span, large difference in improvement. Would you rather pay 1000 dollars and keep the CPU for 3 years or pay 400-500 every 6 months for *a* new card? =P
 
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Wow bravo intel, $1000, thanks for being reasonable. :rolleyes:

If they wanna charge that much whatever, but don't call it moderate. That's absurd. I really hope bulldozer can overcome this, maybe make intel learn the meaning of the word "moderate." But hey, I guess that's what happens when your on top, you rip people off and they thank you for it. :laugh:
/little rant

I'm still wondering if unlocked multi will still be the name of the game w/ this. Seems due to the slightly different ratios of bus to multi some other method of extremeness may be necessary.
 

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Wow bravo intel, $1000, thanks for being reasonable. :rolleyes:

If they wanna charge that much whatever, but don't call it moderate. That's absurd. I really hope bulldozer can overcome this, maybe make intel learn the meaning of the word "moderate." But hey, I guess that's what happens when your on top, you rip people off and they thank you for it. :laugh:
/little rant

I'm still wondering if unlocked multi will still be the name of the game w/ this. Seems due to the slightly different ratios of bus to multi some other method of extremeness may be necessary.

We have gotten use to the sick 'extreme' CPU prices from Intel already :wtf: QX9770 for $1800 :cry: Its the best but still, GD. If that 12 core monster challeges the mighty bloomfield then we might see another NV-ATi. But Intel is no where near as dumb as NV. They won't be hit as hard as NV was with their high-end. But I still want it to happen ASAP.
 
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We have gotten use to the sick 'extreme' CPU prices from Intel already :wtf: QX9770 for $1800 :cry: Its the best but still, GD. If that 12 core monster challeges the mighty bloomfield then we might see another NV-ATi. But Intel is no where near as dumb as NV. They won't be hit as hard as NV was with their high-end. But I still want it to happen ASAP.

Yeah they wouldn't be hit at all, they would just lose a little profit. The extremes cost no more to make that the procs priced $1000 cheaper, they just have the feature of an unlocked multi. There are a few other features, but the profit on a proc like that is ridiculously high. Really, the other procs are just restricted, the capabilites are near the same. Nvidia and ati is a different battle, the costs are higher.
 
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dont you wish the L2 bridges where still there to be moded to unlock chips, granted only AMD did this, but wouldnt it be nice?
 

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I'm soo buying that 2.66 GHz part. :)
 

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I'm still laughing at people who go for Extreme Intel Processors. I usually go for processors that is just enough not to bottle neck my overall setup. Yes, I know the Extreme can overclock very well but if you think about cheaper processors in the Yorkfield family, like the Q9450, the technologies they have are so similar that the gap you get between the two in games like Half-life 2 or Crysis don't make the Extreme a worthwhile investment. Look at the Wolfdales, they can overclock amazingly well due to their low voltage cores, as a result they cream the competition since they reach 4GHz, and 3.6 GHz can also be reached through the stock cooler, which means Christmas from Intel. So just overclock the Wolfdales and you save about $750 which you can spend on a tw0-way dual core SLI setup lol. However, without the Extreme series Intel will not have that many abilities to discover new methods for the next generation of processors, like melting the CPU off the motherboard even when liquid nitrogen is applied lol.
 
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