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Price Guide, February/March 2006: Motherboards

Date: February 28th, 2006
Topic: Guides
Manufacturer: Various
Author: Haider Farhan

AnandTech Deals
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ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
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Prices
Buy.com $209.95
TigerDirect.com $239.99
EastLuna.com $209.00
123 Buy Direct $499.00
Neximaging.Com $279.99


Introduction

Welcome to the latest edition of our price guides, where this week, we'll take a look at the current trends in the motherboard marketplace. As always, we like to start by quickly mentioning our Real-Time Pricing Engine. Speaking of which, we have some stellar news about the RTPE. About a week ago, we had all of our databases updated, including the RTPE's. So for now, those who had stated that the RTPE was just so slow making it unbearable to use will have no excuse to not give it another shot. A few tweaks here and there have made using the RTPE much more user friendly and enjoyable.

There hasn't been too much action with motherboard pricing; although, we are noticing that the i975X chipset based boards are becoming more common and the latest offering for Intel CPU users is the nForce 4 Ultra for the socket 775, which has recently dropped into the market. We are also noticing that many of the socket 754 motherboards are gradually decreasing in number and at this rate, it appears as though they will be phased out soon enough.

Beginning this week's motherboard price guide, we will first take a look at the Athlon 64 socket 939 motherboards.