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Intel Dual Core chip costs 10 times more than mobo

Can this be right?


By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 09 May 2006, 13:25

TAIWANESE mobo giant Asus will only charge $250 for a top performing board but the Intel chip that plugs into it will cost a staggering $2,200.

Actually, you can get one at $145 at New Egg, if you can afford the CPU.

The Asus N4L-VM DH Pentium M Core Duo mobo from Asus has a good turn of speed - its SKU (stock keeping unit) is 47769. It's a rather complex piece of electronics which the marketing boys describe as having "ultra low noise, low power" and Viiv compliance as well as Dolby sound.

The Core Duo 2500 is not a cheap component.

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However the benchmark givin is a peice of shit that shows only 10FPS gain. For another 2000$.

It's 10FPS in Half-Life II....

Over the 4800+. If they're trying to compare top-end systems, they may as well use the FX-60, which costs half as much as the Intel chip.

In all honesty, though, this isn't that far out of range for a top-end computer processor. The FX chips topped the $1000 mark. I was expecting the high-end Intel ones to retail for around $1500, or so, but $2200 isn't astonishing despite being a 50% increase over what I expected.

The real shocker is that they didn't seem to cut the price of ANY of their Pentium-M or Core Duo/Solo chips, and the "price cuts" on their mobile chipsets are all in the $1-2 range (usually less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the price) (they also cut some low-end mobile Celeron chips slightly). Don't spend it all in one place, folks.

I expect prices will drop, but June is the time for Intel to drop prices, fits its timing.

I'm not suprised by the Extream edition price, I just hope the base chips are more competetively priced or AMD will keep steamrolling and exchange places with Intel as supplier of cheap chips.

Dual core is the next big thing along with 64-bit given the lethargic advance in clockspeed now (no more shiny signs saying, but I fail to see how spending that much can really make a difference right now. My P4 Prescott is good enough for what I use, but I'm deffo buying AMD next given they've got overt the cooling and fan noise issues and deliver on value for money.