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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
Pricelist:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...l?redir=CPT301 Article in German with percentages: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/88002 Sempron 3600+ (2GHz) now 53 $ |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
Jan Panteltje wrote:
Pricelist: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...l?redir=CPT301 Article in German with percentages: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/88002 Sempron 3600+ (2GHz) now 53 $ Unfortunately doesn't include their Socket 939 chips, a friend is currently looking for an X2 upgrade for A64-3000+ S939. Yousuf Khan -- There is no failure, only delayed success |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:12:34 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote: Pricelist: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...l?redir=CPT301 Article in German with percentages: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/88002 Sempron 3600+ (2GHz) now 53 $ Dammit! Less than a month after I bought a new system with an AMD chip in it! sigh I should be used ot this by now! It's interesting that it's now cheaper for me to buy an Athlon64 X2 5600+ and a motherboard for less than a Core 2 Duo + motherboard. The chips are almost the same price and for some reason the motherboards for the Intel chips all seem to be at least $20 or $30 more. -- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
Tony Hill wrote:
It's interesting that it's now cheaper for me to buy an Athlon64 X2 5600+ and a motherboard for less than a Core 2 Duo + motherboard. The chips are almost the same price and for some reason the motherboards for the Intel chips all seem to be at least $20 or $30 more. I noticed that long ago, too. There's a higher cost in making Intel chipsets, due to their northbridge-based memory controller, I suppose. At one time, I was finding that typical AMD systems were $100 cheaper than typical Intel systems, when you kept the processor prices the same between them. If they're only $20-30 more expensive now, then that's a major cost reduction for Intel motherboards. Yousuf Khan -- There is no failure, only delayed success |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
The Kat wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:35:29 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote: Unfortunately doesn't include their Socket 939 chips, a friend is currently looking for an X2 upgrade for A64-3000+ S939. HARD to find, and expensive. I have a S939 MB, and have decided it's NOT worth the cost for an X2 CPU for it. And if you think THAT'S bad, look at the price to upgrade a Socket A XP CPU (I have a 2500 and a 2800). Well, I'm fortunate that way, I am still running a Socket A Athlon XP system, and I expect that there will be absolutely no upgrade path for me, other than a complete system overhaul. So I can start off right away with an AM2 system, as necessary. AMD has priced it's processors realistically against Intel's by now. The processors are priced according to the closest performance Intel processor that they compete against (even their Socket F FX's have come down in price to reflect the reality). That typically means that they have a one-for-one competitor at all levels except the highest performance Intel processors. So that means that you'll have competitors for C2D E6600 and below, but not above that. These are typically the price points that most people will be buying anyways. Yousuf Khan -- There is no failure, only delayed success |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
Yousuf Khan wrote:
snip : Well, I'm fortunate that way, I am still running a Socket A : Athlon XP system, and I expect that there will be absolutely : no upgrade path for me, other than a complete system overhaul. : So I can start off right away with an AM2 system, as necessary. That's "funny", I am too. Been running an Asus A7V333 with an Athlon XP for 5 years now. Just now starting to see a problem with one of the capacitors (see my previous post re "solid capacitors") leaking, and am starting to do the research on my next major overhaul. Was thinking at first at going with Intel just for the Core-Duo (Conroe) thing, but I'm more and more leaning towards AMD now. I'm pretty agnostic when it comes to CPU and chipset vendors...just want the best bang for my buck. What I really want is decent performance (read stability) and throughput. I do a lot of work on Photoshop CS2 plus tons of video (re)encoding on my current machine. I see dual-core as an absolute godsend in this arena as it will "free up" my computer to do other tasks while encoding. Anyway, am now thinking about the following AM2 mobo: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...2=101& l3=296 Why? Simply because it's one of the few I've found so far (socket 775 or AM2) that still sports TWO IDE channels (ie, to connect four devices) and also is capable of using ECC memory. Don't know if this is the best performance board I can get, but it does have the options I need. I would definitely like feedback from someone on what they think of the Integrated GeForce 6 GPU. Later /TLG snip |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
The Lone Gunman wrote:
Why? Simply because it's one of the few I've found so far (socket 775 or AM2) that still sports TWO IDE channels (ie, to connect four devices) and also is capable of using ECC memory. Don't know if this is the best performance board I can get, but it does have the options I need. I would definitely like feedback from someone on what they think of the Integrated GeForce 6 GPU. It is rather important that I get at least two IDE channels myself. I have absolutely no SATA drives yet. Yousuf Khan -- There is no failure, only delayed success |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:20:34 +0200, "The Lone Gunman"
wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: snip : Well, I'm fortunate that way, I am still running a Socket A : Athlon XP system, and I expect that there will be absolutely : no upgrade path for me, other than a complete system overhaul. : So I can start off right away with an AM2 system, as necessary. That's "funny", I am too. Been running an Asus A7V333 with an Athlon XP for 5 years now. I was there too until last month, had an Socket A Sempron chip on a Chaintech board (after the original MSI board I had died due to failed capacitors). computer to do other tasks while encoding. Anyway, am now thinking about the following AM2 mobo: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...2=101& l3=296 Just bought that exact board myself along with an Athlon64 X2 4400+ Why? Simply because it's one of the few I've found so far (socket 775 or AM2) that still sports TWO IDE channels (ie, to connect four devices) and That was one of the nice bonus features for me on this board. Otherwise I would have needed an add-in IDE controller or a SATA-to-PATA adapter. also is capable of using ECC memory. Pretty much all Athlon64/Opteron boards should, one of the nice things about having the memory controller integrated. Don't know if this is the best performance board I can get, but it does have the options I need. I would definitely like feedback from someone on what they think of the Integrated GeForce 6 GPU. Perfectly fine for Windows stuff, 2D work and whatnot. Good picture quality on my 19" LCD using the built-in DVI connection. Performance for gaming stinks though, worse than my old ATI Radeon 9200. I plan on making use of the motherboard's PCI-Express 16x slot in the near future. -- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
Tony Hill wrote:
: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:20:34 +0200, "The Lone Gunman" : wrote: :: snip snip : Perfectly fine for Windows stuff, 2D work and whatnot. Good : picture quality on my 19" LCD using the built-in DVI : connection. Performance for gaming stinks though, worse than : my old ATI Radeon 9200. I plan on making use of the : motherboard's PCI-Express 16x slot in the near future. http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...2=101& l3=296 Hey Tony, I was hoping you'd chime in here. So you bought the exact same board? Are you happy with it? Any caveats? WRT to the on-board graphics, I don't really do any gaming anymore (simply don't have the time sigh), but I do a lot of editing in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Do you think the built-in graphics would be suitable for what I do? On another note, what's the absolute fastest memory one could install in this mobo, keeping in mind that stability is of primary importance? Thanks in advance. /TLG |
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AMD cuts some processor prices by up to 48%
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:56:51 +0200, "The Lone Gunman"
wrote: Tony Hill wrote: : On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:20:34 +0200, "The Lone Gunman" : wrote: :: snip snip : Perfectly fine for Windows stuff, 2D work and whatnot. Good : picture quality on my 19" LCD using the built-in DVI : connection. Performance for gaming stinks though, worse than : my old ATI Radeon 9200. I plan on making use of the : motherboard's PCI-Express 16x slot in the near future. http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...2=101& l3=296 Hey Tony, I was hoping you'd chime in here. So you bought the exact same board? Are you happy with it? Any caveats? Based on the 1 month that I've had it, I've been very happy with the board. I haven't encountered any serious issues yet, though I can't claim to have tested anywhere near everything yet. The BIOS seems decent, it has all the standard features. Probably a bit light on the overclocking features for some people's liking, but I don't much bother with that. On-board sound works well too with decent sound quality, though I currently have an add-in card so that I can use my surround sound, headphones and a mic without swapping connectors around. WRT to the on-board graphics, I don't really do any gaming anymore (simply don't have the time sigh), but I do a lot of editing in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Do you think the built-in graphics would be suitable for what I do? I would think so. Your performance might go down by a bit since you'll be hitting main memory for graphics at the same time as using a nutoriously memory intensive application. However I doubt it will cause any problems and the performance hit will probably be in the range of a few percent. Only other thing to keep in mind is that some of your main memory will be unusuable for Photoshop stuff. On another note, what's the absolute fastest memory one could install in this mobo, keeping in mind that stability is of primary importance? Thanks in advance. I've got some DDR2-800 memory in there. This is the only DDR2 memory I own, so I haven't tried swapping around any other speeds. I've also left everything at standard auto-detected timings for now at least. Seems to be working great. -- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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