View Full Version : AMD Price Cut
onethreehill
10-23-2006, 04:49 PM
In the Athlon 64 line, the FX-62 enjoys a $114 drop down to $713. AMD has also slashed prices for all Energy Efficient Athlon 64 X2s so that they now cost the same as their regular, non-low-power siblings. An Energy Efficient flavor of the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ has also been introduced for the occasion, although considering how scarce both EE chips and the regular X2 5000+ have been in the past, you may not see the new processor on shelves anytime soon.
In the budget desktop segment, the Athlon 64 3800+ is down $4 to $108. Pricing for the Sempron line hasn't budged, but AMD has ditched the entry-level 1.6GHz Sempron 2800+. A new 2.2GHz Sempron 3800+ for Socket AM2 has been introduced with the same $108 price tag as the Athlon 64 3800+.
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/11080
nn_step
10-23-2006, 04:52 PM
Sweet, although the 8212 still costs though the lungs...
Which is going to pull AMD's Supply even tighter
Pinnacle
10-23-2006, 04:58 PM
onethreehill long time no see :)
raccoonone
10-23-2006, 05:37 PM
ooo sweet, I'm gonna have to look at a low power proc.
Eastcoasthandle
10-23-2006, 05:47 PM
It's a great thing to benefit from competition
Kanavit
10-23-2006, 05:59 PM
i'm hoping that this price cut will have a trickle down effect on the s939 FX 60!
WeStSiDePLaYa
10-23-2006, 08:14 PM
nice to see EE's costing the same. now you have no reason NOT to get one.
nn_step
10-23-2006, 08:41 PM
nice to see EE's costing the same. now you have no reason NOT to get one.
Unless of course you are planing on using the Regular procs to Heat your house this winter :p:
Poodle
10-23-2006, 10:15 PM
Unless of course you are planing on using the Regular procs to Heat your house this winter :p:
I love that kind of reasoning. :)
nn_step
10-24-2006, 05:42 AM
Except for the fact that some of them are still bloody HARD to find. Like the SFF.
ummm that is an Oem Part
Am I the only one who see something wrong here?
Athlon 64 3800+ (64-bit, 2.4GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, AM2 and 939) $108
Athlon 64 3500+ (64-bit, 2.2GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, AM2 and 939) $91
Sempron 3800+ (64-bit, 2.2GHz, 256KB L2 cache, 1600MHz HyperTransport bus, AM2) $108:stick:
Not that I care about single core anyway....
ummm that is an Oem Part
WTF so why does it have a PIB OPN ADD3800CUBOX (http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADD3800IAT5CU)?
vitaminc
10-24-2006, 07:47 AM
Except for the fact that some of them are still bloody HARD to find. Like the SFF.
QFT, and also bloody EXPENSIVE if you find it too...
Starscream
10-24-2006, 08:06 AM
QFT, and also bloody EXPENSIVE if you find it too...
yup, overhere the X2 3800 SFF costs some 350 euro were the normal X2 3800 costs 140 orso.
woow cpu prices seem to be droping like rocks:)
WeStSiDePLaYa
10-24-2006, 10:23 AM
Except for the fact that some of them are still bloody HARD to find. Like the SFF.
the EE and EE SFF are different chips though.
the EE's are 65w chips and can be found in many local shops.
only the regular EE's got the price cut.