am2 price cuts are sneaking out now.

Super Tigers · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:31

Yesterday I noticed the prices of Sempron 64 am2 chips are starting to fall. I have seen today sempron64 2800+ am2 for £25inc vat! :eek:

3000+ are down to £36 inc vat in places.
The prices of the semprons had to fall in relation to the athlon64 versions after their recent price cuts.
x3800 am2 can be had for £170 oem but they should fall to about £110 pretty soon. Standard 3800 single cores are below £100 in places now.

Price war is starting in a quiet way.

Rob H

Digital Punk · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:43

Yeah , I bought a 3200+ retail the other week for £66, and I've seen a 3500+ oem for £64. Incredible! :eek:

OCUK are doing a great deal on the 3700+ atm too.

Its excellent bang for the buck, and I think its going to get better, specially when select X2's drop further.

I know a lot of people who'll be doing upgrades to their existing AMD systems with these bargain chips.

Corasik · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:55

AMD are going to need to have very aggressive prices to compete with Conroe on Price

erformance. The Core 2 Duos' seem to have very strong performance, and in the budget market, Intel will have the Core 2 Solo's although the pricing isnt yet announced, and they could be part of the future 'Celeron' range.

Super Tigers · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:59

AMD are going to have to cut their prices to some very attractive levels because this time Intel is not taking any prisoners

Rob H

Corasik · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:16

Yep, Good new for buyers of both brands. Should be some of the best 'value' CPU's available in years. Hurrah!!!!!!

HighlandeR · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:43

AMD will have to drop the FX62 to £239.99 to compete with intel

Digital Punk · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:08

Corasik said:
AMD are going to need to have very aggressive prices to compete with Conroe on Priceerformance.

Maybe, but its great news for people with existing 939 systems who don't want to fork out for a whole new platform.

clv101 · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:10

Corasik said:
Yep, Good new for buyers of both brands. Should be some of the best 'value' CPU's available in years. Hurrah!!!!!!

As long as a price war doesn't reduce R&D budgets too much slowing down the next decades development.

Corasik · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:27

Im sure the majority of the R&D budgets are funded by the likes of Dell buying a gazillion £20 celeron level parts, for shipping to the average 'Joe' on the street, rather than a handfull of higher level parts for enthusiasts, and research facilities.

But yeah, a little price competition never hurt anyone, but I wouldnt wanna see top of the range processors at £50, and no sign of any future improvements.

Vegeta · 4 Jul 2006 at 21:31

Is the 939 chips going to get really cheap also? I've offered to buy a opty 146@£100, maybe I should hold off?

Super Tigers · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:34

Not too sure about skt 939, but socket AM2 is were the best price drops will be because AMD wants people to switch sockets. Skt 939 is dead in the water, production has ceased on all the x2 products and is now End of line.

Rob H

Angilion · 5 Jul 2006 at 01:22

The plan appears to be for S939 variants to drop in price a great deal as well as the AM2 variants, but it might well be a moot point because S939 CPUs aren't made any more. The famous leaked memo indicate whanging great price cuts on all A64 X2 parts with 512KB cache, on both platforms. I'm hoping that OcUK will have stocks of the X2 3800s left after the price cuts, so I can get one for about £100. If not, well never mind.

Gibbs · 5 Jul 2006 at 10:02

if an Dual core X2 drops to £100, ill pick one up with out an issue but if Conroe on Price

erformance is better then ill make the switch.

if Conroe is to be released on July 14th, do you think AMD prices will drop then also? i.e the same day.

Vegeta · 5 Jul 2006 at 11:01

I would consider going AM2 if it means dual core's for £100.

A2Z · 5 Jul 2006 at 11:09

ive found the x2 3800 (939) now for £155 inc vat, last week it was £164 inc vat, hopefully should keep dropping :cool:

bbreezeuk · 5 Jul 2006 at 12:48

is anyone going to buy a cheap X2 or are most of you lot going over to conroe as it seems i am the only one waiting for the amd price drop

Vegeta · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:01

I'm going cheap amd route myself, might do conroe for dx10.

scoopex · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:19

HighlandeR said:
AMD will have to drop the FX62 to £239.99 to compete with intel

Thats the price i am waiting for.

The Old Man · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:20

Well I'll be sticking with AMD 939, I priced up an AM2 system and the DDR2 memory was twice the price of DDR400 which I currently have 2GB of. Until the memory drops to a fair and relaistic price I'll stick with DDR400. I recall PC Format found little difference in DDR2 to DDR400 anyway and said AMD were right to hold off DDR2 support when Intel switched to it.

bbreezeuk · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:34

scoopex said:
Thats the price i am waiting for.

that wont happen and you know it