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Zayras:
Since the i7s are quite expensive, Intel is planning on releasing it's new i5 and i3 processors to make them more affordable for the average consumer. You'll be able to buy (retail) one of these sweet new processors around mid August and the mobos in early August. They will be using a different socket than the i7s 1366, Socket 1156 and therefore you won't need to get an expensive X58 chipset mobo, but rather a new much more afordable mobo with the new P55 chipset.

I'm very excited and can't wait! I was about to build a new PC with a Phenom II X4 processor until I stumbled upon this today. Was planning on building it for late July/Early August, but I don't mind waiting a bit more for the great performance these new processors will bring about. Keep in mind that they will not be better than the i7s as their names suggest. Although some might outperform the i7 920 at a more affordable price.

IMO this is going to kill AMD until they release a new Processor with new a new arquitecture. Even if their Phenom II processors have great prices, they still cannot beat Intel's Core 2 Quad processors clock per clock... who knows where they'll stand against the new Intel processors  ???.

Sources if you're interested or want to read more:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3585
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570&p=1 (It's a very long and descriptive 11 page article.)

kureshii:
I don't think it's happening anytime soon, at least not if Intel's going to price the P55 so lackadaisically. Right now P55 prices are slated to be roughly the price of P45+ICH10 with a slight premium.

This is absurd, especially when you consider that the P55 is nothing more than a tweaked ICH10, now that Northbridge functions have been fully offloaded to the CPU in the Lynnfield architecture. You'd think a single-chip system (ignoring third-party chips for LAN and storage) should cost less than a NB-SB system, but it seems not...

I'm still waiting to see Intel's marketing moves in the mainstream market.

queenmetroid:
I've had bad experiences with AMD in general. Still, I want to see them succeed, because Intel needs the competition, and nVidia won't be able to make GPU only PC systems for years, if ever.

kureshii:
AMD's processor performance in the low-end market is pretty respectable for the price (of the processor+platform), but I'm still waiting for them to fix their AHCI problems with the Southbridge... SB600-750, and the issue still seems to be unresolved. Not having NCQ on your SATA HDDs is a real pain >_<

And yeah, I hope AMD keeps nipping at Intel's heels; We won't see their prices come down otherwise.

As a side note, I think it's pretty interesting to see how each manufacturer is moving in their mainstream chipset strategy. Nvidia's focusing on their strength in graphics, by merging their integrated graphics chip with the chipset, in their single-chip Geforce solution. Intel, on the other hand, finally puts both the memory controller and PCI-e channels on the processor, thus doing away with the Northbridge (curse their pricing strategy for the P55 though). I can't wait to see how AMD responds; they're not catching up in the processor market, and they don't seem to be doing much with their purchase of ATi either.

Lupin:

--- Quote from: kureshii on July 18, 2009, 05:33:50 PM ---As a side note, I think it's pretty interesting to see how each manufacturer is moving in their mainstream strategy. Nvidia's focusing on their strength in graphics, by merging their integrated graphics chip with the chipset, in their single-chip Geforce solution. Intel, on the other hand, finally puts both the memory controller and PCI-e channels on the processor, thus doing away with the Northbridge (curse their pricing strategy for the P55 though). I can't wait to see how AMD responds; they're not catching up in the processor market, and they don't seem to be doing much with their purchase of ATi either.

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AMD/ATI had a changed of strategy in their graphics division. They no longer design chips for the high end. They design a mainstream chip then combine two of these for their high end parts. Sames them money I guess.

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