Quote Originally Posted by perkam View Post

So who wants to guess how much the X58 Asus Maximus will be

Perkam
I would expect Bloomfield boards to cost less than P45 boards... the X58 chipset is actually much simpler and should therefore cost much less than a P45 chip. It all depends on how Intel prices it of course.

The components for the rest of the board will be pretty much the same except for the socket.

The only added complexity is the triple channel DDR3 which early reports indicated might require an 8-layer PCB however, I expect by launch the boards will be back to 6-layers. An added benefit of DDR3 is in-flight compensation for trace-length delay so the constraints on equalizing trace lengths for DDR3 are not as strict as they were for DDR2 giving board manufacturers more flexibility with regards to layout which should allow them to maintain 6-layer PCB's in spite of the dramatic increase in traces to route.

All of this won't stop ASUS from trying to soak early adopters however!