Philip Wen’s Virtual Residence

Core i7 for sale now - 920 cheaper than Q6600 when introduced

Don’t you just LOOOOVE Moore’s Law? When Q6600 was first introduced, it was going for slightly more than $300. Now? You can get a Nehalem Core-i7 920 for $288 shipped from here.  Couple the chip with one of these boards and you’ve got yourself an awesome box to run quite a few VMs!

What will really knock the bang-for-buck out of the ballpark will be the 24GB RAM.  This won’t be cheap of course.

I still feel that a Q9300 with a good P45 board is still the way to go for budget Virtualization for now.  It will get real interesting though, if those DDR3 chips start coming down in price.

Until then, I will just keep dreaming about replacing a rack of 4U servers with one of these boxes

Tags: 920, Core, i7, Intel, server, Virtualization