News - Intel Core i7 pre-orders begin to appear, prices start at $340

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There's still no official release date for Intel's Core i7 (Nehalem) CPUs, but early retailer placeholders are always a good sign.

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Nice... Not a terrible price too should be less than £200 here

Ocuk have had their prices up for 2 days....UK was actually the first to announce prices this time!

oh and £200 is way too low according to the above....try more like £260

Might be time to upgrade the work PC, depending on how much motherboards are. Is this going to be DDR3 only?

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Originally Posted by 3dcandy

oh and £200 is way too low according to the above....try more like £260

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Is £260 the crazy preorder price on OcUK? Once it is properly release the cheapest one may be around £200 (I hope).

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Originally Posted by SiM

Is £260 the crazy preorder price on OcUK? Once it is properly release the cheapest one may be around £200 (I hope).

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I do hope so...

340.00 USD = 192.761 GBP

if not, I think I'll be getting my family in the US to ship me one over. And maybe a few more if the prices are like that uk e-tail wide... =]

i wont buy this for over £250 and i wont but a mobo over £150 either. i gotta do a WHOLE upgrade this time round so will want these priced reasonably before i take the plunge

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Originally Posted by wapps

I do hope so...

340.00 USD = 192.761 GBP

if not, I think I'll be getting my family in the US to ship me one over. And maybe a few more if the prices are like that uk e-tail wide... =]

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Is this not a Canadian site?

339.95 CAD = 176.980 GBP + VAT

either way the cpu should not retail over £250 imo as anything higher then that is almost £100 extra just because where from "europe"

agreed, although that certainly wouldn't be the first time we get screwed in europe.

I'll definitely be waiting until I absolutely need the power and/or DDR3 prices come down to current DDR2 pricing.

The thought of a new motherboard + cpu + 3 or 6 sticks of DDR3 + CPU waterblock + vista ultimate licence makes baby jesus cry.

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Originally Posted by shaithis

I'll definitely be waiting until I absolutely need the power and/or DDR3 prices come down to current DDR2 pricing.

The thought of a new motherboard + cpu + 3 or 6 sticks of DDR3 + CPU waterblock + vista ultimate licence makes baby jesus cry.

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*points at his socket 939 system with DDR and XP* Oh.. I needed to upgrade my motherboard, CPU, RAM and OS anyway ;) (though I'll see if I can wait for Vista mk2)

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Originally Posted by shaithis

I'll definitely be waiting until I absolutely need the power and/or DDR3 prices come down to current DDR2 pricing.

The thought of a new motherboard + cpu + 3 or 6 sticks of DDR3 + CPU waterblock + vista ultimate licence makes baby jesus cry.

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What CPU block you got, you shoulda got the ones with changeable brackets :)

Suprisingly the SuperPI result Gibbo posted with the new i7 cpu's doesn't seem so smashing. It's only 1 second ahead at 3.9GHz compared to a Q9550 at 3.8GHz.

Most of our setups will last for quite some time. It's just upgrading the GPU and hard drives for me :D

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Originally Posted by Stringent

Is this going to be DDR3 only?

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You knows it!

I'm only looking forward to i7 because it's going to be a second hand Core2 extravaganza! :drool:

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Originally Posted by moogle

What CPU block you got, you shoulda got the ones with changeable brackets :)

Suprisingly the SuperPI result Gibbo posted with the new i7 cpu's doesn't seem so smashing. It's only 1 second ahead at 3.9GHz compared to a Q9550 at 3.8GHz.

Most of our setups will last for quite some time. It's just upgrading the GPU and hard drives for me :D

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Using a D-Tek FuZion, so it probably is compatible with a new bracket I expect.

Still, this is going to be the first jump in tech I haven't scrambled for in quite a while. Of course, if the real benchmarks turn out to be significantly better then the previews are showing, I may not be able to contain myself :help: but the current benchmarks doing the rounds are very underwhelming considering the "all-singing all-dancing" X58 chipset and "time re-mortgage your home" DDR3 RAM.

I was expecting a LOT more. AMD held a huge lead over Intel for quite some time thanks to the embedded memory controller, now that Intel has incorporated it I was expecting to see substantially higher performance then current reports indicate.