AMD cuts Phenom II prices

[Final8y]

Awesome, a price war!?!

Its great but im not buying anything just yet & i think i will wait for AM3 DDR3.

Rumours of Intel maybe dropping prices again soon.

 

[schumi84]

Awesome, a price war!?!

Indeed, it has certainly been a while since both parties have been in a position to actually compete in a price war.

Ok AMD are still a bit behind Intel with regards to performance, but for value for money, AMD are nicking it i would say, going by current benchmarks/overclocks etc.

Savings permitting i could be on the lookout for a system upgrade over the summer, may depend on DDR3 pricing though

 

[chaotic_uk]

2. OcUK is a business. We do not sell at cost. If we did OcUK would not be around long.

we all know this

 

[Uther]

Price wars are great for the customer! Bring it on.

 

[bigmike20vt]

am out of the loop regarding cpus, i guess i need to do my homework.

so AMD are back in there with the bang for buck are they?

last time i looked the Q6600 was cleaning up anything AMD at just over the £100 mark.

 

[EvilOne]

I would swap my Q6600 for a 940 lol, better clocker and runs cooler (and around same clock 4 clock).

 

[Meaker]

Its surprisingly not far off the Q6600, but the higher quality mobos are easier to find. Certainly more reliable than the newer Q6600 chips.

 

[Bleek]

Clock the NB higher (ala AM3) and it beats the Q6600.

 

[Meaker]

Not mine, 3.7ghz at 1.4v.

 

[DrBombcrater]

Paid £188 for a 940BE a few days ago, currently doing 3.6GHz at stock vcore. Very pleased with it

 

[Energize]

Two key points.
1. We are stocking the Retail not OEM, which costs more.

Why on earth is ocuk selling retail only when a large number of their customers are overclockers and will have 3rd party heatsinks? They must be losing loads of business as everyone orders them elsewhere at oem prices. A bizarre business model for their target market I must say.

 

[rolypolyman]

Why on earth is ocuk selling retail only when a large number of their customers are overclockers and will have 3rd party heatsinks? They must be losing loads of business as everyone orders them elsewhere at oem prices. A bizarre business model for their target market I must say.

Would have to agree with the above statement.

 

[nightmare99]

Where are these OEM chips I haven't seen any/many?

Also just noticed an etailor with this description for the PII 940

AMD's New 12GHz Power House

How retarded is that?

 

[daz.rathbone]

Seen that too - made me chuckle

 

[Talrinys]

Why on earth is ocuk selling retail only when a large number of their customers are overclockers and will have 3rd party heatsinks? They must be losing loads of business as everyone orders them elsewhere at oem prices. A bizarre business model for their target market I must say.

Completely agreed, if i could save 15£ on that purchase i would be much more willing to shell out for a better cooler.

 

[Meaker]

AMD stopped allowing resellers to sell OEM stock directly.

 

[Energize]

Many places still sell them so it seems like it's just ocuk playing by the rules.

 

[Lightnix]

AMD stopped allowing resellers to sell OEM stock directly.

What possible advantage does that have for anyone? For AMD it means less demand for their chips. For the retailer, it means they can't stock cheaper chips. For the consumer, it means they're forced to pay for the retail processors at a premium.

Sometimes you see AMD's struggling, and it's times like this that really clarify the situation...

 

[m_fighter]

hi.. are those just as good i7 processors for sli-cfx ?.

 

[gizmo1990]

So let me get this straight. The much trumpeted quad core price drop HAS happened. It's just that we in the UK aren't seeing it because of the currency rate and OCUK aren't selling OEMs..?