When will i7 Prices drop

Ya and i want best performance as well for programming and photo editing ... i read reviews and i hear the i5 is excellent i just prefer i7
 
Fallen_Angel said:
Ya and i want best performance as well for programming and photo editing ... i read reviews and i hear the i5 is excellent i just prefer i7
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Thats the thing with budgets, you get the best you can for the money that you have. Hoping that prices will drop to fit what you want is unrealistic at the best of times:)
Processor prices have always been pretty stable and don't fluctuate all that much. Eg. you would think that the Q9550 CPUs would have become quite cheap by now, but from what Ive seen lately they seem to have gone up in price instead.
 
I think i gonna go for case and PSU as my christmas present hehe wait a bit for rest ... got some rubish Biostar and AMD Sempron (Cant OC it:() but an XFX GTS 250 fixes it a bit but wit 1066MHz RAM and only 800 MHZ (was 400MHz before BIOS update) being used it not nice...
 
Fallen_Angel said:
I think i gonna go for case and PSU as my christmas present hehe wait a bit for rest ... got some rubish Biostar and AMD Sempron (Cant OC it:() but an XFX GTS 250 fixes it a bit but wit 1066MHz RAM and only 800 MHZ (was 400MHz before BIOS update) being used it not nice...
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another price droped on the i7 CPU now The current price is : R3,064.00
 
You don't have to get the "best" motherboard for I7. I got an MSI X58 for R1500, the pro version retails for around R1900
 
CorneN said:
The Pro got some pretty good reviews as well.
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Personally i was all set to order the msi x58 pro-e the other day, but due to mr cornen's badgering and nasty cheapskate name calling I was forced to get the asus p6t deluxe v2. :P hehehe thanks Corny ;)

Now on a more serious note the x58 pro-e is an awesome entry level board with alot of features you wouldn't expect on an entry level board. If it weren't for the great overclocking reviews, dual gigabit lan and the 16+2 phase power design of the asus delux v2 then I would most likely have ordered the msi. Itis definately a superior board to the asus p6t or p6tse in terms of features and I really have done my homework... 4-6 months of homework.

Now onto the topic at hand... Core i7 CPU's are not likely to drop in price as they are already at the sweet spot between the i5's/lower end i7's and the 940/950 and to be perfectly honest i would actually expect them to go up a little as the exchange rate fluctuates... we could see a price drop in the new year, but i would hazard a guess that this will only happen when the release of the new CPU's occurs.

Currently the i7-920 really is a beast of a CPU for it's price and with a little bit of knowhow and the tinniest amount of work you can turn that R3 000 CPU into a R10 000 CPU.

Motherboards on the other hand i would think should be coming down a fair bit over the next few months, mainly the high end boards, and the other lower end boards should start falling into roughly the same price bracket as the MSI entry level boards.

The price for some of the higher end boards really are way over what anybody could reasonably claim they should be, so hopefully even with any (small) movements in exchangerate they should at least drop to something respectable... perhaps even 3-3.75k incl vat for the absolute top boards.
 
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rtzouves; Currently the i7-920 really is a beast of a CPU for it's price and with a little bit of knowhow and the tinniest amount of work you can turn that R3 000 CPU into a R10 000. [/QUOTE said:
I would like to know how u turn a 3k CPU into 10K :D
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swsup97 said:
I would like to know how u turn a 3k CPU into 10K :D
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I merely mean that with a little overclocking you can easily push the i7-920 to 4 GHZ or very close to that, and at those speeds the 920 beats the 975 extreme which is a R10 000 CPU.

On a side not... it looks like ikonicit have changed the pricing on those i7-920's from R2800 - R3099. Bummer

Edit: lol i reread my other post... my bad, hehe. Fixed ;)
 
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