Intel's pricing is INSANE

[JML]

(prices taken from newegg)

a 2.8GHz P4 - $389

a 3.06GHz P4 (w/ Hyper Threading)- $800!!!!

HOLY SHIZNIT! You could get two 2.8's for the price of a 3.06! ( or almost FIVE 2.0a's that could prob overclock very close to that speed!)

[Overclocker550]

if you get lucky. also no hyperthread. that said, id still get a 1.8GHz and hope ill luck out to 2.7GHz

[hooziewhatsit]

and an athlon XP 2700+ (333 bus) for $325 :eek:

[JML]

My knowledge of hyper threading is limited at the moment, but I bet that it isn't worth the excessive price. I would get the 3.06 if I was rich and had money to throw away :D

[BaldHeadedDork]

Take that attitude and you wouldn't be rich for long. ;)

If it makes you young'uns feel better, Intel used to launch their fastest chips at over $1,000. If I remember correctly, the first P2-300 retailed at something like $1,150.


BHD

[DDR-PIII]

p-II's @ 1.5k ? that musta been in'96 ?

[Namagomi]

Yeah, back before AMD put the pressure on and made sure that Intel couldn't just shoot the moon when it came to CPU prices.

And yeah, a 450 was around 1.5k retail at launch. a Falcon Northwest Mach V (the Alienware of the day) had a 450mhz bleeding-edge box that cost 5k!! :eek!: Now an "overpriced" box is 1.5k :D

[RedDeathDrinker]

The 3.06GHz P4 with hyperthreading is around £580 over here.....

I could build an XP1800 system complete for that......

[BaldHeadedDork]

Originally posted by DDR-PIII
p-II's @ 1.5k ? that musta been in'96 ?

And give that man a cigar.

Though I wrote $1,150. For some reason I remember that price from a Treasure Chest Computer's ad in Computer Shopper. (Back in the day when Computer Shopper was bigger than most phone books....)


BHD

[Stumpjumper5200]

WOW!

I paid $540 USD for my 2.8 :D

Price sure dropped didn't it? LOL! hehe

[progamer]

Definitely. I know of a friend who's dad bought a 386 computer for around $4000. It's sitting there and gathering up dust now.

[Crazy Jayhawk]

Sounds like that article from the front page - the 3.06 will never be a good deal.

[Stumpjumper5200]

The 3.06 will NEVER be a good deal? How do you figure?

Top end this year is mainstream next year and bargain box the year after.

[JML]

And when the 3.06 drops to (for example) $300, the 2.8 will prob be like $150, so yes, the 3.06 will NEVER be a good deal

[Stumpjumper5200]

Yeah, but the 3.06 will have the HT on and the 2.8 won't.

I think they WILL be selling slower CPU's with HT on, but they'll probably cost more than the ones with it off anyway.

[6502kid]

I paid 398 bucks for my P3-S a year and some months ago.

But, it is getting a PR1750 or so in Sandra and runs
UT2k3 great, so I am still happy with it.

I think they still want 200 bucks for a new one.....

[richardjohn31]

Thats weird, at Alienware.com it's possible to upgrade from 2.8 to 3.06 for $313

[Stumpjumper5200]

That sounds pretty much like the price difference from 2.8 to 3.06 anyway

[jdmcnudgent]

yeah, thats terrible, condsidering that a lot of cpus, 1000, (3.06) are only $18. each.:(

[Captain Slug]

I think you should look at it from Intel's point of view.

They currently OWN almost the entire OEM market. Why should they put reasonable prices on their open-market CPUs, when that would hurt the stock of the companies that they make the most money from?

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