Initial forecasts relative to the motherboards moderate prices based on chipset bearlake, could be damaged with information about new asus motherboards prices :-) . Asus bearlake motherboard will cost on average up to $20-30 more expensive than predecessors.
Here is the Intel chipset price list :
- Intel X 38-> $50;
- Intel q35 - > $43;
- Intel q33 - > $35;
- Intel g35 - > $42;
- Intel p35 - > $34;
- Intel g33 - > $38;
- Intel g31 - > $30;
- Intel q965 - > $44;
- Intel q963 - > $36;
- Intel g965 - > $39;
- Intel p965 - > $35;
- Intel i946GZ - > $30;
- Intel i946PL - > $29.
The desire to update the south bridges from series ICH9 to ICH 9 R cost additional $3.
In the third quarter 2007 , Intel p35 and g33 chipset will fall in price to $33 and $37 respectively. As you can see, bearlake chipsets are even cheaper than their predecessors by $1-2. In a word, if some factors determine higher price for bearlake based motherboard , then this is not the chipsets fault.