That and some of us buy 1000 dollar CPU's that cost the same to make as 299 dollar CPU's
Lightbulb moment... I betcha there is a very good reason for no cheap 32nm i7's. Back in FSB days, intel could limit the multi enough to pretty much justify the need for more expensive CPU's. Now they tried to do the same thing with i7, but thanks to people like shamino that plan was ruined. I bet Intel never expected 250+ bclock out of the x58 chipset. I know the wolfdales changed things a little, but with the s775 quads, you had to get the unlocked chip to play the game. Now with i7, its just a matter of a Classified and a 920 to bench with 70%+ of the more expensive i7's. Remember too that it was a long time before there were unlocked i7's that would bench any higher than a juiced up 920.