Quote Originally Posted by JackalStomper View Post
If you put a lot of emphasis on budget when speaking with him, then he pointed you in the right direction. AMD has a superior Price/Performance ratio on most of their CPU's.

As for ivy making sandy prices drop? Unlikely, Intel quite enjoys their inflated prices. Hell the bloomfield CPU's have steadily raised in price since their release 5 years ago.
There's a difference between old hardware prices going up due to lack of supply and inflation, and relatively new hardware with plenty of stock being discounted.

The SB prices will go down when IB comes out, maybe not by a lot but they will.