willbill wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Dropped power just as they are getting ready to discontinue them. They
have a ton of previous P4's and PD's to get rid of in their inventory,
and those they are likely going to have to write off.


i hadn't thought of that

i revise my "tough stuff" to VERY tough stuff

but i somehow doubt that previous P4's will be
written off; but i could be wrong given what
is going on

Once Core 2 starts getting sold in any great numbers who is going to
want to buy the P4's?

the reason for newegg's price drop on Opty 940 CPUs
(this past week) looks like their (AMD) intro of
AMD Santa Ana and Santa Rosa, which weren't there
on my capture of newegg's August 8 Opty prices

Socket F?

Yousuf Khan