I'm sure there is a confirmed price somewhere but we won't find out for sure until the NDA is lifted on the day of release.
Those revised prices sheza linked are nice and low but I'm skeptical about how much of that will be soaked up by UK retailers. I can't see the i7 selling for £200 and the i5 selling for £140 on release!
I was expecting ~£240 for the 3770k and ~£180 for the 3570k. Anything less is a bonus.
Mhm, take a look at US pricing for the GTX 680. $499 and yet we see prices up to £450 which is clearly not an exact conversion. If you expect £240 for the 3770K then that's made me happy, because I was expecting anywhere up to £300 for it and I only have a budget that stretches £260.
Yea the 3770k isn't worth more than £260 even if they try to sell it. I'd get a 2600k for £200 instead! To be honest the IB chips will have to see an improvement in overclocking to justify a £20-30 higher cost compared to their SB brothers otherwise I'll just go SB!
I saw a review on these forums saying that overclocking was better than SB on the same volts but heat was considerably more too (and they were using H100). That suggests to me that in order to make use of IB's better overclocking people might need custom watercooling,
that made me a bit sad to read that because I bought a H100 just for ivybridge, I was told the um stable overclock on Ivy is 5.35 ghz, with water cooling with air it's like 4.7, Then I've also heard ivybridge 3770k reaching 7ghz with all cores disabled on frozen ice
1) SB will still be alive and kicking well into the Haswell release date.
2) IB will be throughly beaten by Haswell performance.
Would Haswell use a different socket then? (One that is currently unreleased)