Overclocking made simple

Evil Genius

Evil Genius

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Australia

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief
Nehalem won't be too pricey, don't worry. Save about 500 pounds, maybe 600 for a really nice Nehalem setup. Then again, you will need DDR3 (which is thankfully dropping in price pretty quickly)
Any ideas on how much the X58 motherboards will be? I read the chipset itself costs $70 to produce, so people are guessing $300+ for a motherboard. I know the 2.66Ghz CPU will be cheap, DDR3 has come down in price a lot and will further, and I'm just counting on motherboards being reasonably priced.

Cyb3r

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

AFO

E/

I think about 100-150$ for a decent board (correct me if wrong just making asumptions )

Evil Genius

Evil Genius

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Australia

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyb3r
I think about 100-150$ for a decent board (correct me if wrong just making asumptions )
Yes you are definitely wrong for a few reasons:

1. X58 is Intel's extreme chipset (just like X48, X38 etc) and new technology (new number of pins, Triple channel RAM etc).

2. The cheapest X48 motherboard I saw on newegg (now) was $160: on release all X48 boards were probably a bit higher. This alone would indicate no X58 motherboards will be under $160 upon release.

3. Boards with six memory slots will need six to eight layers. Mainstream boards normally only have four layers, while six layers are used in workstations only. More layers = more cost.

4. The X48 chipset alone (not the whole motherboard) costs $70 to manufacture. In comparison the 790i Ultra costs $100 to manufacture and the boards sell for $312 and up on newegg months after release.

Hope I didn't sound too blunt or insulting because that wasn't my intention. Most "info" at this point is just speculation/educated guesses. I'm sure Intel will release a mainstream chipset (like P45 in comparison to X48) a few months later for the price range you estimated.

Cyb3r

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

AFO

E/

Nah you don't like said it's hard to make any assumptions, guessing the board goes for around 200-250$ won't be far off i guess?

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

200-350 depending on the model and features.

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rahja
Sweet mother of god...
HP DV2125nr with nVidia Go 6150. Complete crap imo. I just hope I can get another laptop before this own literally melts.

Back on topic...

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

Um, can I suggest not using it on your lap?

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snograt
Um, can I suggest not using it on your lap?
I didn't want kids anyway.