SNB-E pricing?

[draemn]

http://www.techpowerup.com/154398/Sa...se-Stores.html

Is Intel really going to **** us over because bulldozer was a flop? Due to power consumption, I'll probably have to pass on bulldozer (wanted a good folder/game server rig)... I was thinking I'd just wait to see what SNB-E has to offer (10 days away supposedly) and go with either that or the 2600/2700k... but if Intel wants to screw us on pricing again, I might just have to go BD for my original reason: as a protest against intel's rip-off pricing (to be clear, current SNB is the best pricing I've seen from intel in years).

[Lamb]

It's cool only having 2 corps competing in the CPU market for consumers...

[sswilson]

Heh... many of those prices look completely off the wall, even for a platform that was supposed to be geared more towards enthusiasts with fat wallets.

[Soultribunal]

Sadly it might come to pass, with no competition why bother hurting your profit margins?

Make more money -> Invest more in R and D -> Make better products -> Stomp out AMD once and for all.

Simple flow chart for Intel. Sadly.

Here is to hoping AMD comes back.

ST

[draemn]

Yeah... I would have bought slower bulldozer if it wasn't at the cost of more energy consumption :( and I wouldn't be surprised to see intel adopt these prices as BD was a flop and they are close to the X58 platform pricing for chippies.

[brewer265@]

I highly doubt these are the actual prices , the $942 Asus mobo should be a dead giveaway. These most likely are pre-order price gouging prices.

[draemn]

earlier speculated prices of around $300 for the i7-3820, ~$583 of i7-3930K, and ~$999 of i7-3960X Extreme Edition.

But even these estimated prices (not pre-order prices) are pretty high.

[brewer265@]

Originally Posted by draemn

earlier speculated prices of around $300 for the i7-3820, ~$583 of i7-3930K, and ~$999 of i7-3960X Extreme Edition.

But even these estimated prices (not pre-order prices) are pretty high.

Thats the normal pricing scheme of Intels enthusiast class cpu's.

[chrisk]

Originally Posted by draemn

earlier speculated prices of around $300 for the i7-3820, ~$583 of i7-3930K, and ~$999 of i7-3960X Extreme Edition.

But even these estimated prices (not pre-order prices) are pretty high.

I would be shocked if this were not the more accurate estimates.

[draemn]

Originally Posted by brewer265@

Thats the normal pricing scheme of Intels enthusiast class cpu's.

And their normal pricing scheme has always been 'bad' for us. Intel likes profit margins of 45% or more... (I think I read that on Anandtech)

That pricing is what had led me to wait for BD instead of getting an SNB build.