Quote Originally Posted by Turtle 1
Well normally I would agree. But Intel has shown to me anyway that. They(intel) Is forcing lower prices. I hope K8L is 20% faster than Conroe. I would very much like to see what AMD does with prices if they are the performance leader. I see what it has meant for all of us with Intel as the performance leader. The proof is in the pudding Intel lowered prices. Amd has not shown me that they will lower prices when they(AMD) leads in performance.
What the hell price has to do with this thread topic?

You want to talk prices? Let's talk prices. Most frequent users on these forums are not the average buyers (and they constitute an extremely small portion of revenues for AMD or Intel). In fact many of the "fantastic" results we see especially in the Intel section are from people who don't even pay one single cent for their stuff.

Now let's talk about the guy who want to buy a computer and doesn't know anything about xtremesystems and such. He could end up buying a Dell which now sells AMD systems for cheap (part of the reason why Intel was so dominent in its sale was because it had a real tight monopoly with companies like Dell but that's changing now. I've read somewhere that AMD had an 80% market share for retail boxes but that didn't compensate for the deal with the "big boys"). Or he could end up buying at NewEgg or a local store. Now the guy wants to get the best deal he can. He doesn't know squat about overclocking and thinks that if he tries to overclock his house will catch on fire. He sees this:

AM2 X2 3800+ (2ghz): 139$
Intel C2D E6300 (1.86ghz): 186$

(EWWWWW)
Asus M2N-E: 92.99$
Asus P5NSLI: 104.99$

What do you think the average price conscious consumer will do (and is doing, actually)?