Quote Originally Posted by mrcape View Post
I see your point that over time the prices will probably take a similar dip. It's just that we've had it so good for the past couple C2D years and the AMD years before that... got spoiled maybe.

Wait and see I guess.
C2D spoiled us, not X2 that is the point. I'm sorry but if Intel's C2D was dud, AMD would try to sell us the bottom rung processor at the 3800+ May 2006 levels. Maybe the other guy would rather forget but most of us haven't. I'm NOT the only one who bitc#ed about AMD's Price structure. Nehalem earily models will cost more but last thing I saw, Intel wasn't shipping the low end models until later. So it is not like we're talking low-end for $400.

Overclocking. I got preached to by Experts when I tried to just say "guys the FSB isn't that bad for the Desktop. It is flexible ......... I still laugh when I think about one line from that thread. "I don't think you understand" LOL. Locked or Not, Nehalem is a steal compared to other processors that shipped in the $400 range. It remains to be seen if the other processors can overclock high enough to out perform it and that's all I tried to say from the start. In that old thread I told guys "the FSB is more flexible". Hell, I'd love a Dual core model and still run 4 threads