oo.. what a good news.. expecting more price drops.. XD

Hoping that there will be a corresponding drop in price for Socket 1156 mobos.  Currently they are ridiculous price to pay for a board with a "chipset" consisting of a single southbridge

+1

no use if proc price drop, but we cant afford the mobo,
to fully utilise i5/i7 power need to spend good money on mobo....

cheapest mobo 1156 was about 600 i guess?

The cheapest P55 mobo can be as low as RM540.
DDR3 price is another concern...

From Gigabyte cheapest is P55-UD3L RM=455
or Intel INTEL DP55WB RM=395!
Btw,price go down every day!

C2Q is dying & Intel factory has stopped producing this 775 procs.
1156 price is dropping like hell to replace the 775.
By 2010 (less than 2months from now), i7 860/870 will be highly affordable, not to mention the i5 750 lar...

i just got one , i will get another 2 how u think? maybe 2 i7 860

Over a month ahead of its launch, the first wave of Intel's 32 nm based Core i3 and Core i5 series dual-core processors have been listed on German online store HPM-Computer. The pricing and specifications disclosed by these listing confirm the information that surfaced as early as in July, this year. The series starts with Core i3 500 series processors whose clock speeds range between 2.93 to 3.06 GHz, and continue with Core i5 600 series dual-core processors ranged between 3.20 GHz and 3.43 GHz. While both series feature HyperThreading Technology to give the operating system four logical processors (threads) to work with, the Core i3 processors lack the Turbo Boost feature which the Core i5 chips have.

According to the new listing in which the chips are priced in Euros, the 2.93 GHz Core i3 530 processor is priced at 103.90 EUR, and 3.06 GHz Core i3 540 at 120.90 EUR. The Core i5 600 series lineup includes the 3.20 GHz Core i5 650 priced at 160.90 EUR, 3.33 GHz Core i5 660 and 661 priced at 175.90 EUR, and lead by the 3.43 GHz Core i5 670 priced at a premium 252.90 EUR point. All prices include a 19% applicable tax. The IGP clock speed (750 MHz vs. 900 MHz), differentiates Core i5 660 from 661. It is likely that the price of one of those seems to have entered incorrectly. With these processors, Intel may also introduce the Intel H57 Express chipset, and motherboards by various vendors will soon follow. These processors, however, have the same LGA-1156 socket the "Lynnfield" quad-core processors have, which are currently in the market. They may run on existing P55 Express based motherboards too, according to a recent report.