Overpriced AMD 939 socket CPUs

[dylan_t_jones]

Today I was searching the web for AMD chips with 939 sockets. Mine is AMD3500 Socket939 and instead of buying a new rig I was looking at upgrading my processor to 4400-4800 x2. I couldn't believe how overpriced the AMD 939 socket chips are compared with AM2 socket. If you look at OcUK web page

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) £74.91
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (Socket 939) £169.99

Even e-bay AMD 939 sockets chips are being overbid to high prices, and its difficult to find a 4800x2 chip. This suggests to me that AMD are ignoring a lot of people that still have motherboards with 939sockets, and that they should at least make more chips for people like me who don't want buy a totally new rig.

Let me know what you think and where I could get cheap chips.

 

[dylan_t_jones]

Its a pity that AMD stopped producing the 939 chips if you consider that a lot of people are still interested in the chips.

To my 2nd reply the AMD3800x2 doesn't improve on my 3500 significantly when it comes to games, so I'm not going to waste £105. I've already upgraded by graphics card to 1950 pro AGP 512Mb so I was hoping to get more fps by going for AMD4400-4800, plus I like to occasionally dabble in video encoding and thats why I would like a X2 CPU.