It may have been little more than a cruel mistake, but Newegg certainly got our hopes up by showing Core i7 CPU’s for sale a whole three days before the official launch. The offending links and advertisements were quickly pulled from the site and now, little more than a handful of screenshots exist as evidence.
Core i7 is currently slated for launch on November 17th and it appears as though we’ll have to wait until then to place our orders. Normally, this incident wouldn’t classify as news, but the Newegg slip up does give us a pretty good idea of what the retail pricing will be on the three new SKU’s. The site was offering the 2.66GHz entry level part for $319.99, while the 2.93GHz and 3.2GHz models were priced at $599.99 and $1069.99 respectively. UK customers are seeing similar pricing and power users the world over are waiting with egger anticipation to embrace the new architecture. This isn’t surprising given that early benchmarks have the entry level Core i7’s mopping the floor with pricier, and higher clocked Core 2’s.
So are you going to buy a Core i7 on Monday?
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n0t_a_n00b2
November 25, 2008 at 4:20pm
I personally won't buy into nehalem yet. Why? Remember how great core 2 duo was. Yeah, then they started glueing two dies together for a quad-core. Who wouldn't like an 8 core with HT. Add Johnsburg chipset (my imaginary skulltrail motherboard for core i7 and you get 16 real cores and 16 virtual. Yeah, I thought you'd like that.
Windbreaker
November 17, 2008 at 7:24pm
'Cause I'm hoping to upgrade my current box on the relatively cheap.
Gigabyte
November 17, 2008 at 2:32am
Mwave.com has them for less. http://tinyurl.com/6ebafj $289 / $575 / $1,039
It will be interesting to see the prices/combos over the next 2-4 weeks.
Maelstrom
November 16, 2008 at 9:44pm
Well, i7 sure is tantalizing...but the need for X58 and DDR3 saddled with an ecomomic outlook in the tank mean waiting a bit would be more than prudent.
Strongbad536
November 16, 2008 at 8:19pm
Newegg now has the X58 boards up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200280%201070645357&name=Core%20i7
*edit - sorry about double post. not sure how it happened.*
Strongbad536
November 16, 2008 at 8:11pm
Newegg now has the X58 boards up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200280%201070645357&name=Core%20i7
winmaster
November 16, 2008 at 6:45pm
I'm glad Intel sells budget/slightly outdated chips. At those prices, I would have to stick with my pentium 3 for a few more years.
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Danielw719
November 16, 2008 at 2:48pm
There are Core i7 prices (Including the Intel X58) in the most recent Tiger Direct catalogue I received late last week.
Intel DX58SO: 299.99
Core i7-920: 329.99
Core i7-940: 649.99
Core i7-965: 1,149.99
Can you say EXPENSIVE?
n0t_a_n00b2
November 17, 2008 at 2:55pm
A MSI X58 Platnuim from Newegg.com sells for $220. Add some cheap triple chanel corsair RAM (3 GB / 1333 mhz / latency of 9) for $130. Add a $320 CPU for $670 and you're not off too bad. Heck, throw in a GTX 260, and a PC Power and cooling 610 for $80 after the rebate, and $175 after the rebate. Throw in an X-Fi xtreme gamer for $91, a Caviar 640 GB drive with 32 mb of cache for $85. Add Vista for $100, an Antec 900 for $100, and an optical drive for $30. Done. Finished. Fait. Termine. Hecho. Terminado. Awsome gaming computer for under $1300 bucks. If you want more buy a motherboard with SLI support and buy a second GTX 260, or buy duall 4850s, or even a GTX 280.
Benchmark that, Max PC!
(It would beat the living daylights out of your most recent $1500 PC.)
(Sure, GTX 280 beats GTX 260, but DDR3 and core i7 makes up for that)
jwalch.hawk
November 16, 2008 at 1:19pm
Well, I personally can't afford to build a system (of that magnitude, anyway) right now... But I get to basically put together one for a friend who has been wanting a new machine (I told him to wait for i7). So I'll get to do a complete system build with one of these guys in about a week. The proc.-o-choice is the 940... And I'd like to point out that my prediction for the pricing on that part on Newegg is exactly one cent lower than I predicted... If only that prediction were written down somewhere... Heh.
knexkid
November 15, 2008 at 10:52pm
As I was looking over this article I remembered....I got my usual Tiger Direct catalog in the mail the other day, and in the processor section was the three new Core i7 processors. I thought it was strange since I didn't think they were out yet (which they aren't...) and nothing on the catalog said anything otherwise. I went to tigerdirect.com and found out that they didn't have the processors on the website. But they are in the catalog, with the prices and everything.
Body_slaM
November 15, 2008 at 9:25pm
I am in the market for a new PC. I am planning on getting the 920, I am not not sure what X58 I want though.
dazza145
November 15, 2008 at 7:28pm
i will probably buy one next year, build a new system as the one i got now is shit.
The 13th Misanthrope
November 15, 2008 at 9:40pm
How long does your computer take to open firefox/ie/etc?
strykyr
November 15, 2008 at 6:18pm
Hell I'm still fantasizing about a q6700. Will prolly settle for the 6600 tho. I am not gonna buy an i7 anytime soon because I would have to buy a new motherboard and memory. Since I am more than happy with my 680i, I see no reason to want a new motherboard in light of how much it will all cost. I like being married and she was mad because I got a Kandalf LCS Silver for $290.
soccer1105
November 15, 2008 at 5:47pm
Any idea if these prices will go down for black friday? Or will intel just keep them high cuz they're brand new?
s3th
November 15, 2008 at 7:08pm
Good Idea, or maybe even for christmas, because I might ask for one, that'd be a nice gift
amay
November 17, 2008 at 11:08am
hmmm, the local computershop has been selling the core i7's for over a week now. All i remember is that the Core i7-920 was selling for just over $400 (cdn) and they had already sold out of the Core i7-965, i was tempted to get one but that ment new mobo+ram... and i just couldn't cost justify it
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