AMD Athlon Price Cut Coming

[SkeeterUK]

Probably a quater of retail price or half.

 

[jaykay]

Yer it not very much to make but its a lot to design, so they have to price it high to make back thier r&d.

 

[Greenlizard0]

I hadn't realised their prices are so cheap atm anyway. £120 for 6000+ 3.0GHz OEM isn't bad at all.

 

[Gibbo]

HI there

OcUK already has the newer prices on some CPU's hence why were so cheap on some of them anyway.

The 4600 X2 AM2 for example is at the new lower price, working direct with AMD has its advantages.

 

[Justintime]

Question.

Does anyone know how much a cpu actually costs the manufacture?

Being top dog obviously artificially inflates prices, as with most components, but does a top end C2D actually cost anything more to make than the bottom of the range?

Don't see why it would, think they're all made from the same wafers, the lower end might be a bit more even as the multipliers etc.. would have to be disabled, also with the inital 'allendales' it might've cost more as they probably had to disable half the L2.

 

[kkthxbye]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.00GHz at £117.49 inc VAT is damn great, think I'll be getting my bro to upgrade his 64 3200 lol. Very nice OcUK

 

[Linken]

All these CPU price drops recently are nice.

 

[CH3]

Seen the 4800+ (energy efficient 65W) for £60inc already.. Nothing like a price war for low prices

 

[Edinho]

There's absolutely no ass kicking whatsoever.

In my testing, games are a few fps faster, and encoding video has been a couple of minutes better, but no more than that.

I've been thoroughly underwhelmed with my C2D tbh.

It hasn't lived up to the hype in my book.

Talking against the establishment will get you hung I tell ya. Im like you I dont fall for this omglolzzzwtf11111111!!!! Core2Duo pwnzzzzzz crap. Yes its good but you would think that the way some people talk it was the new dawn in computing.

 

[Netvyper]

The new dawn in computing is quad core!!

Im happy enough my with aged, X2 3800 @ 2.5ghz, I've not found anything except sup-com & multiple eve clients that it wont handle without issue; and tbh, both of those I expected to be high stress, and would be so on a top end C2D too.

 

[Justintime]

Talking against the establishment will get you hung I tell ya. Im like you I dont fall for this omglolzzzwtf11111111!!!! Core2Duo pwnzzzzzz crap. Yes its good but you would think that the way some people talk it was the new dawn in computing.

Heh totally agreed, its like some revolution and computers are now sentinent the way some peeps harp on

 

[riddlermarc]

Heh totally agreed, its like some revolution and computers are now sentinent the way some peeps harp on

Irrespective of the fact if you say "I'm NOT looking at overclocking" the C2D peeps will push "aah but C2D is muuuuuch faster when overclocked to 3.2GHz".

I don't overclock my test/dev machines, I need them stable and as (relatively) cheap as possible - hence X2 and quad-core AM2 when they come

 

[krooton]

Irrespective of the fact if you say "I'm NOT looking at overclocking" the C2D peeps will push "aah but C2D is muuuuuch faster when overclocked to 3.2GHz".

I don't overclock my test/dev machines, I need them stable and as (relatively) cheap as possible - hence X2 and quad-core AM2 when they come

Seeing as I bumped a mate's E2160 to 2.7Ghz without changing anything other than the fsb, I don't see why it would be any more unstable than at stock.

 

[helmutcheese]

You dont see it ?, the CPU is no longer at stock MHZ, be it by the FSB or Multi, there is no guarantee any CPU will be stable at any OC, thats for the user to test out.

 

[mikezero]

Price cut details are as follows:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/09/amd_price_cuts/

 

[krooton]

You dont see it ?, the CPU is no longer at stock MHZ, be it by the FSB or Multi, there is no guarantee any CPU will be stable at any OC, thats for the user to test out.

I thought stability issues came from voltage and heat increases.

 

[fini]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/09/amd_price_cuts/

Reading that link makes it sound like AMD are going to restart making s939 chips? Is that right?

 

[Journey]

Wow.. some of the prices are amazing, now that all the e-tailors have there prices up it would seem that the 4800+ is available for only £52 + VAT great value alternative to the E2140 & E2160.

 

[helmutcheese]

http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+to+Can+Singlecore+Cut+Dualcore+Prices+on+Monday/article7960.htm

 

[dafloppyone]

If you're looking to build an AMD powered system, you might want to hold out a short while. AMD today took the axe to its desktop processor price list, knocking up to almost 30 per cent off what it charges for its gaming, mainstream and budget CPUs, as expected. All mainstream processors are now priced well below the $200 mark: The fastest mainstream dual-core CPU Athlon X2 6000+ will be available for $178 (before: $241), according to the new list. The 5600+ drops from $188 to $157, the 5200+ from $178 to $136, the 5000+ from $167 to $125 and the 4800+ from $136 to $115.

The 4400+ and 4000+ are the new entry-level dual-core processors with prices of $94 ($121 before) and $73 ($104). The list indicates that the 3600+ and 3800+ have been phased out and are not available anymore. On the high-end, AMD drops the price for the FX-74 pair from $700 to $599. The FX-72 remains at $599. Single-core processors are affected by the price drop as well. The product portfolio now begins with the entry-level 3200+ model, which lists for $48 ($58 before) and tops out with the 4000+ which is priced at $79 ($94).

AMD's cuts come ahead of arch-rival Intel's next round of price reductions, expected to take place on 22 July - on which date the chip giant is also expected to roll out revised Core 2 Duo and other desktop processors that up the maximum frontside bus speed to 1333MHz.