Prices Cut for i5 570 and 595 Memory and Processor Features

Published: April 30, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM last week cut some feature prices on i5 570 and 595 servers to make the cost of building up processor complexes a little less expensive.

On the i5 570, IBM cut the price of a processor core activation by 27 percent to $10,500. The price to add main memory on the i5 570 was also cut, but not so much. The price of the 8/16 GB capacity upgrade on demand (CUoD) memory for the 570, feature 4496, was cut by 8 percent to $18,510; the price of a 16 GB memory increment (feature 4497) was cut by 5 percent to $30,310, while the price of a 32 GB increment (feature 4498) was chopped by 34 percent to $98,304.

On the i5 595, processor core activation prices were not cut, but IBM did mess around with memory prices. The price of a 4 GB CUoD memory card with no memory activated were cut by 14 percent to $1,518. The price for an 8 GB CUoD memory card dropped by the same 14 percent to $3,035. The 16 GB CUoD card with no memory activated costs considerably more, at $24,912, but is 20 percent cheaper than it was. The 32 GB CUoD card costs $82,592, down 23 percent. It costs $1,515 per GB to activate memory on these cards, a price that was also cut by 14 percent. The price for activating 256 GB of main memory on the i5 595 dropped by 14 percent as well, to $387,840.

Even with these price cuts, the amount of money IBM charges for System p5 and System i5 DDR2 main memory is still borderline insane. But now, there's at least a little Prozac.

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