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Field Marshal Melchett

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The 2007 Build of Gen­eral Melchett, with post-build modi­fic­a­tions live here. A pro­mo­tion from Gen­eral is Field Mar­shal. Think Mont­gomery and a whole bunch of oth­ers. Prior to the phys­ical release of the new “Nehalem” Intel Corei7 pro­cessors, my pre­vi­ous blog was a little the­or­et­ical. Plan­ning the mid-2009 (estim­ated) build of the suc­cessor starts with watch­ing the pri­cing of the three key com­pon­ents: Pro­cessor, Mother­board and Memory:

19 Nov 2008 25 Nov 2008 10 Dec 2008 7 Jan 2009 9 Mar 2009 3 Jul 2009 18th Jan 2011

Stage 1
GA-EX58-Extreme LGA1366 549.00
Giga­byte GA-EX58-DS4 401.30 367.80 339.30
GA-EX58-UD3R 363.20 328.20
Giga­byte GA-EX58-EXTREME 473.90
Giga­byte GA-P67-UD5 SATA3/USB3/DDR3 321.90
Core i7 920 2.66Ghz 660.00 569.95 511.17 489.02 501.20 462.70
Core i7 950 3.06Ghz 837.90
Intel Core i7 2600 3.4Ghz 32nm “Sandy Bridge” 369.30
OCZ 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800 Gold Low-Voltage Triple Chan­nel, 3x 2GB (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) 572.00 566.60 566.60 542.90 361.40 210.10
Cor­sair 12GB Memory 6x XMS3 2GB Kit, PC3-12800 (HX3X12G1600C9) 366.30
G.Skill 16Gb DDR3 memory, 1600Mhz 301.90
TOTAL 1781.00 1537.85 1445.57 1371.22 1225.80 1001.00 1678.10 993.10
–6.0% –5.0% –10.0% –18.3%

 

Janu­ary 2011: Updated with the Stage 1 (of two stages) pur­chase for GENERALMELCHETT upgrade. $993.10 in 2011 vs. $1781 in late 2008. Wow.

I will update the table to track the drift in pri­cing. These pri­cings are from AUS­P­CMar­ket. I may also be going to the US in July/August 2009, so that also adds another vari­able. The above prices at AU$ includ­ing GST.

  • Update 25th Novem­ber 2008: Changed down the mother­board a model; pri­cing from Mwave.com.au
  • Update 10th Decem­ber 2008: Wait­ing for the price of DDR3 memory to drop
  • Update 9th March 2009: dra­matic down­shift of memory pri­cing makes 12Gb look afford­able! The DS4 mother­board is dis­con­tin­ued, with the new UD3R chosen as a replace­ment in the same price range. I may change this over time. The Intel price has slightly risen, prob­ably due to the exchange rate fluc­tu­ations more than mar­ket conditions.

Notes:

  • Depend­ing on pri­cing, I may go faster than 2.66GHz in the Core i7.
  • I am really happy with the General’s cur­rent Giga­byte mother­board: excel­lent driver sup­port for Vista x64 and rock solid stable.
  • Whilst 6Gb is less than the 8Gb now in the Gen­eral, it is easy to track a 6Gb pack at 1600MHz and see where the pri­cing tracks over the next 9 months. I may install 12Gb in the Field Mar­shal. Because I can.

Any other sug­ges­tions of online sup­pli­ers, or real-world exper­i­ence with memory – would be great.

Written by Nick Hodge

November 19th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

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