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Two stunning AMD Socket 939 Deals @ OcUK !! Athlon 64 3700 @ £79 !!

3700+, hope it clocks well without uping voltage

:)
Gibbo said:
HI there

Here are two truly stunning deals from OcUK on Athlon 64 3700 and 4000 processors. Both are retail boxed with full AMD warranty:-
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Cheers Gibbo, Just ordered it (3700+,) been waiting months for a nice price drop.
Hope this overclocks to 2600/2700, without uping the voltage.
Gonna keep this for 6 months or so, then go conroe, and hopefully AMD's newest chips will cause Conroe price to drop, and there should be some kickass boards and memory to go with it !
P.S I like the way your doing buisness with Intel, and AMD, your bringing good deals to the punters, and the free advertising your getting, by being the 1st to supply conroe, has got to (eventually) bring prices down for the punters also.
 
Just ordered the 4000+ retail so should arrive on Monday or Tuesday next week. Should keep me happy until the Christmas rush of new games comes out or Vista release. :)
 
Gibbo anychance you could check the steppings for me on the 3700+ ADA3700BNBOX chips to see if is good overclocker ?

Or does anyone know already ?

My current one only goes upto 2.54 @ 1.45v & does not like going any higher even if i push it to 1.75v
 
Sin-Tex said:
Gibbo anychance you could check the steppings for me on the 3700+ ADA3700BNBOX chips to see if is good overclocker ?

Or does anyone know already ?

My current one only goes upto 2.54 @ 1.45v & does not like going any higher even if i push it to 1.75v
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We've got 100's of the damn things, they might or be the same batch but might not be. Whatever the case this is the last lot produced so no more again....
 
AMD to drop Athlon prices by up to 46%

"AMD is said to be preparing a broad range of deep price cuts in a bid to take the fight to Intel's next-generation architecture Core 2 processors, due to be released in the coming months. AMD will cut its prices by up to 46 per cent, it has been claimed.

Industry sources cited by DigiTimes reckon the cuts will come on 24 July. The reductions - of 0.5 per cent to 46.1 per cent; 36.7 per cent off on average - will come to all the Socket AM2 and some Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors and follow the aggressive pruning of Socket 939 and Socket 754 parts.

Some Socket AM2 chips will be dropped too, it seems. Out will go those with 2MB of L2 cache - 1MB per core - which would appear to confirm rumours that AMD plans to limit Athlon 64 X2 chips to 1MB of L2 (512KB per core). It is expected the upcoming Opteron 12xx, 22xx and 82xx lines will get 2MB of on-die cache.

Intel is also expected shortly to make big price reductions, knocking up to 60 per cent off the price of its current CPUs. The cuts are due on 23 July."
 
ben_j_davis said:
AMD to drop Athlon prices by up to 46%

"AMD is said to be preparing a broad range of deep price cuts in a bid to take the fight to Intel's next-generation architecture Core 2 processors, due to be released in the coming months. AMD will cut its prices by up to 46 per cent, it has been claimed.

Industry sources cited by DigiTimes reckon the cuts will come on 24 July. The reductions - of 0.5 per cent to 46.1 per cent; 36.7 per cent off on average - will come to all the Socket AM2 and some Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors and follow the aggressive pruning of Socket 939 and Socket 754 parts.

Some Socket AM2 chips will be dropped too, it seems. Out will go those with 2MB of L2 cache - 1MB per core - which would appear to confirm rumours that AMD plans to limit Athlon 64 X2 chips to 1MB of L2 (512KB per core). It is expected the upcoming Opteron 12xx, 22xx and 82xx lines will get 2MB of on-die cache.

Intel is also expected shortly to make big price reductions, knocking up to 60 per cent off the price of its current CPUs. The cuts are due on 23 July."
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Its good to see OcUK to be the first to be actioning price drops already. :)
 
A2Z said:
if there arent any, will just get a 2nd hand one, which drop in price as well cos of conroe..
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Says who? As Gibbo was explaining, S939 processor will soon not be available new and so the value of second hand ones will actually go up.

Yes Conroe might be competitive price-wise but not everyone wants to change their mobo and memory at the same time as the CPU, a lot of people with existing S939 systems will be looking for an easy upgrade path.
 
dale1uk said:
It depends on what your going to use your pc for. If its for gaming I'd say a clocked 3700sd would be better than the dual core
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Unless the game in question is Quake 4.

Ok it may be a fairly isolated example at the moment but it shows the potential of dual-core aware games and there'll be a lot more of these in the future.
 
Right ordered ! :) one A64 3700 and one Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra is coming my way hope its a good upgrade from my old setup :) must admit quake4 seemed to run very well using my current spec ..right now all i need is an PCi express graphics card any chance of some of those in next weeks this week only cheap? :D lol
 
I currently have 1Gb RAM, a A64 3000+ and a 6600GT. I play games at a maximum of 1024x768 and don't upgrade a lot. I'm not totally fussed on graphics but like games to look decent enoughand with me not upgrading a lot which would be good for the long run i.e. 2+ years.

A) Not Bothering, and just keeping it as it is and then just a complete upgrade 2 years later.

B) Getting the 3700+

C) Possibly getting a new graphics card. (Not one of the mega expensive ones)
 
me227 said:
I currently have 1Gb RAM, a A64 3000+ and a 6600GT. I play games at a maximum of 1024x768 and don't upgrade a lot. I'm not totally fussed on graphics but like games to look decent enoughand with me not upgrading a lot which would be good for the long run i.e. 2+ years.

A) Not Bothering, and just keeping it as it is and then just a complete upgrade 2 years later.

B) Getting the 3700+

C) Possibly getting a new graphics card. (Not one of the mega expensive ones)
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You'd probably be best off overclocking your CPU a bit and getting a 7600GT or X1800XT 256Mb, the 6600GT is a little lacking in newer games.
 
Hmm...I was going to stick with the A64 [email protected] I have now until it became inadequate and then buy whatever looked best in a complete motherboard+CPU+memory upgrade...but £95 is a tempting price.

If I buy it, then it will be longer until I decide I need another upgrade. So prices will have dropped more, or performance will be higher for the same price.

Therefore, by buying one of these cut-price 3700s, I will be saving money in the long term. So it's actually a prudent investment and not a frivolous waste of money at all!

Yeah, I'm talking myself into it :)
 
Wow, what a difference a year makes :eek: I paid £352 for my AMD 4000+ just under a year ago and I am stunned at the low price of one today. The 3700 is a right bargain, I might pick myself one of these up and build a nice cheapo backup system :)
 
mysticsniper said:
Wow, what a difference a year makes :eek: I paid £352 for my AMD 4000+ just under a year ago and I am stunned at the low price of one today. The 3700 is a right bargain, I might pick myself one of these up and build a nice cheapo backup system :)
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Horray for technological change!









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