Granite bay is too expensive !!!

[Audiofight]

Anyone have a single good reason (Other than it is Intel, they do what they want) for the high prices of the Granite Bay boards?

Hell, the nForce2 is able to offer DCDDR to AMD processors for a very reasonable price ($145-150 for a fully loaded Asus A7N8X Deluxe). Yet the Granite Bay Asus solution is around $280-300. WTF!

Why so high?

 

[Rahl03]

high demand, low supply =(

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Rahl03 Hit that one square on the head.. Also, E7205 chipset is more spendy than other chipsets.

 

[Audiofight]

I can understand higher costs and cutting edge technology is always more expensive than last year's stuff....but c'mon!

$280 for a motherboard?

It isn't even a server board, just a standard desktop motherboard!

I think Intel is instrumenting some price gouging here...personally I don't think the chipset is all that great. I think the limitations outweigh the benefits when compared to an Athlon setup. But, that is IMHO

 

[Regalk]

So forget about Granitebay. Wait until Summer for Springdale (successor). Intel P4PE is plenty fast for now and the price is falling (Abit BE7 is getting cheaper every day). Or get one of the Sis655 boards when it comes out in another few weeks or so,
I have definitely placed GB on my NOT TO BUY list.

 

[Audiofight]

Of course, the Granite Bay chipset is going to be like Rambus

Looked good on paper, but at launch it wasn't quite what it was supposed to be. It will just disappear come Springdale launch...

I definitely have put the Granite Bay off my list of choices. The reason I began to look was for a customer. They wanted quotes for both Athlon and P4 DDR setups. So, I thought I would try to make equal spec systems (2.4 GHz or 2400+, DCDDR Mobo, etc. etc) and I went back to the P4PE/L instead and decided to just avoid the whole DualChannel DDR aspect of the Athlon rig. Just advertise them both as DDR systems

Oh well. Another flop I guess

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Regalk
So forget about Granitebay. Wait until Summer for Springdale (successor). Intel P4PE is plenty fast for now and the price is falling (Abit BE7 is getting cheaper every day). Or get one of the Sis655 boards when it comes out in another few weeks or so,
I have definitely placed GB on my NOT TO BUY list.

Agreed. Go for the SiS655, or just get a cheap single Ch. DDR setup

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

Originally posted by: audiofight
Anyone have a single good reason (Other than it is Intel, they do what they want) for the high prices of the Granite Bay boards?

Hell, the nForce2 is able to offer DCDDR to AMD processors for a very reasonable price ($145-150 for a fully loaded Asus A7N8X Deluxe). Yet the Granite Bay Asus solution is around $280-300. WTF!

Why so high?

just a little side note:
without overclocking the AMD XP chip can't really use all the speed of DCDDR but P4 can.

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: Rahl03
high demand, low supply =(

And the low supply is because this is a "Workstation" chipset. In all fairness to Intel, they never intended for it to be a mass market product. With that, I'd wager to guess that this is most likely one of the best selling workstation chipset intel has released.

CH2

 

[Gretzky]

there are many rich people in the states and prices most of time isnt a issue on a motherboard or any other computer part for that matter. So if they sell well why lower the price? I wouldnt if i would be the ceo of ASUS Or whichever other motherboard company.

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: Gretzky
there are many rich people in the states and prices most of time isnt a issue on a motherboard or any other computer part for that matter. So if they sell well why lower the price? I wouldnt if i would be the ceo of ASUS Or whichever other motherboard company.

I tend to disagree... Demographics of the tech industry aren't represented by sites like this. People here are the exception and not the norm. It's proven time and time again that in this industry the true profits fall into the mid/low priced items selling in high volumes. I'd wager a bet that intel and oems, such as Asus, turn a tidier (i.e. higher percent) profit on a i845PE board as compared to a e7205 board.

CH2

 

[PClark99]

I am tired of all the complaining about the price of Granite Bay, or the price of any new computer hardware for that matter.

If you don't agree with the price you the consumer don't have to purchase it.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Rahl03
high demand, low supply =(

Yes, and also price skimming. Why bother selling them cheap when people will mostly buy intel chipsets for P4's anyways. They may as well charge top dollar for Granite Bay.

 

[Frangelina]

Granite bay seems to be not so badly priced (except Asus). It got the memory management of the 7505 but the HT 3.06 (2in1 processor) is priced higher than 2 xeon 2.4 with a 533 bus!!!!

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: PClark99
I am tired of all the complaining about the price of Granite Bay, or the price of any new computer hardware for that matter.

If you don't agree with the price you the consumer don't have to purchase it.

Here, Here... the dollar is mightier than the mouth.

CH2

 

[poMONKey]

Originally posted by: codehack2

And the low supply is because this is a "Workstation" chipset. In all fairness to Intel, they never intended for it to be a mass market product. With that, I'd wager to guess that this is most likely one of the best selling workstation chipset intel has released.

CH2[/quote]

definatley has to be the best selling... the hype and amount of "chatter" on this chipset has been amazing... and for me, coming from a p3 866, i'll take and pay for the speed now, and buy the cwood ( or whatever... ) later

cant go sis

 

[jhites]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8
Rahl03 Hit that one square on the head.. Also, E7205 chipset is more spendy than other chipsets.

Yep - Just glad that I got mine for $229 shipped from Newegg before they went crazy. Not that I would'nt have bought it anyway.

It is a great little board, and it's only money.

 

[Yourself]

Buying a GB motherboard actually saved me money...stay with me:

I have a 2.4b that will run at 185 FSB. Using the 4:5 divider that's 462 DDR. If I were to try and find memory to coincide with the potential of my chip it would cost me around $360 for a gig of ram(which is what I prefer to run). Using a GB motherboard I pay about $100 extra in comparison to a PE chipset mobo, but I can buy a gig of namebrand PC2700(Crucial to name one) for about $200. The difference in $360 worth of RAM and $200 worth of RAM is how I justify the purchase.

lol...now that's government accounting


Self

 

[Yoshi]

It's not too expensive if you plan on keeping it around for a while. I like to get 3-4 years of service out of a motherboard. A lot of people upgrade every year, in the end the will end up spending as much or more than me.