MBR: CPU & Mobo Prices 9/3

Here are some prices for several of the top tier to budget end products available. I plan on adding some new sections to this soon as well. Thanks for your support all!

Processor Prices
Core i7 965 Extreme Edition
Core i7 920

QX9775 Quad Core
Q9650 Quad Core
Q9550 Quad Core
Q8300 Quad Core

Core 2 Duo E8600
Core 2 Duo E8500
Core 2 Duo E8400
Core 2 Duo E8200

Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X4 945
Phenom II X4 940
Phenom II X4 920

Phenom X4 9850
Phenom X4 9750
Phenom X4 9650

Phenom II X3 720
Phenom II X3 710

Phenom X3 8750
Phenom X3 8650
Phenom X3 8450

Intel X58 Motherboard Prices
ASUS Rampage II Extreme
ASUS P6T
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
ASUS Rampage II GENE
EVGA X58 SLI
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
Intel DX58SO
MSI Eclipse SLI

Intel P45 Motherboard Prices
ASUS P5Q Premium
ASUS Maximus II Formula
ASUS P5Q PRO Turbo
ASUS P5Q
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L
MSI P45 Platinum
MSI P45 Neo2-FR
MSI P45 Neo3-FR

AMD 790G/GX Motherboard Prices
ASUS M4A78T-E
Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2
MSI DKA790GX Platinum

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
MSI K9A2 Platinum

NVIDIA 79/8/50i Motherboard Prices
XFX nForce 790i Ultra MB-N790-IUL9
EVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW
ASUS P5N-T Deluxe
ASUS P5N72-T Premium
EVGA nForce 780i SLI FTW
EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW
MSI P7N SLI-FI

ASUS MARS (Dual GTX 285 4096MB)

ASUS MARS (Dual GTX 285 4096MB) @ Guru3D

“If you have been living under a rock and don’t know what the ASUS Mars is .. let me give you an easy breakdown. You take two GeForce GTX 285 graphics cards, stick 4 GB of memory on there (2GB per GPU), sandwich them, SLI them up, market it as MARS, slap a limited edition label on there and make only a 1000 units.”

ASUS GeForce GTX 285 Matrix ROG

ASUS GeForce GTX 285 Matrix ROG @ TweakTown

“The ASUS Matrix GTX 285 has really been a long time coming, noticed originally at Computex it was only going to be a matter of time before we got the hot little product in our hands. Following the Matrix naming scheme, the GTX 285 is the latest model to get welcomed into the lineup with open arms.”

ASUS P5P55D Pro Preview

ASUS P5P55D Pro Preview @ TechGage

“I was amazed how much bundle I found with this motherboard : plenty of hardware components, but also a lot of useful utilities on the CD. The board performance was excellent and when I was overclocking, I never needed to reset the CMOS even once. When the board was not recovering, all I had to do was to push the Force Reset button, and the board was booting fine; I could modify this way the settings that did not work on the previous boot.”

Foxconn Blood RAGE X58

Foxconn Blood RAGE X58 @ PCShopTalk

“I was amazed how much bundle I found with this motherboard : plenty of hardware components, but also a lot of useful utilities on the CD. The board performance was excellent and when I was overclocking, I never needed to reset the CMOS even once. When the board was not recovering, all I had to do was to push the Force Reset button, and the board was booting fine; I could modify this way the settings that did not work on the previous boot.”

ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Preview

ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Preview @ PCStats

“ASUS’ P7P55D-Deluxe motherboard is a socket 1156 Core i5 platform representing the flagship feature set. Along with the obvious support of Intel Lynnfield socket 1156 processors, the ASUS P7P55D-Deluxe motherboard features three PCI Express 2.0 x16 videocard slots for multi-graphic card set ups. Further expansion comes via a pair of PCI Express x1 and PCI slots. The P7P55D-Deluxe supports ATI Quad-GPU CrossfireX and nVidia Quad-GPU SLI, though you’d be hard pressed to find many users clamoring for a Geforce right now.”

MSI 785GM-E65

MSI 785GM-E65 @ Bjorn3D

“The biggest enhancement for the 785G would be its updated graphic controller base on the HD 4200. Most noticeably, improvements over the older 780G chipset would be the UVD 2.0 support for full MPEG-2/VC-1/H.264 hardware acceleration, DVI and HDMI output, and HDCP encoding. The chipset also supports DirectX 10.1 so it would be fully ready for Windows 7.”

Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H

Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H @ Bjorn3D

“Being it has been a few years since I even remotely tried overclocking an AMD CPU I was unsure what the AMD 4000+ 2.1 GHz Brisbane dual core could do. Since the original motherboard I used in the girls computer would only allow a mere 2.5Ghz overclock. I am pretty sure this GIGABYTE motherboard could take this little dual core CPU to new levels. Question remains, how far will this CPU go?”

ASUS Crosshair III Formula

ASUS Crosshair III Formula @ Legit Reviews

“The ASUS Crosshair III Formula motherboard essentially takes the 790FX M4A79T-Deluxe PCB and tweaks it a bit while adding additional features and bumping the quality in the components. Like all Republic of Gamer boards the Crosshair III Formula comes with an add-in audio module providing cleaner sound. There is also the LCD Poster which provides diagnostic information and a menu for browsing through the options provided in TweakIt.”

X58 Motherboard Round-Up

X58 Motherboard Round-Up @ Overclockers Club

“The overclocked scores give us a better idea of how each board performs. In Apophysis, MSI’s X58 Platinum takes first place by one. The top performer in WinRAR is another MSI board. In just about every benchmark the MSI Eclipse Plus outperforms the competition. For this round I’d say the MSI Eclipse takes the cake, hands down, for both the stock and overclocked scores let’s move on to the next set of benchmarks.”