Massive AMD Price Cuts: Yay!!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?

rms

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?

AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down their
32-bit offerings to get to that point.

steve

that's what i'm afraid of, forced upgrading, ugh...

"Steve Wolfe" wrote in message
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?

AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down
their
32-bit offerings to get to that point.

steve

"rms" wrote in message
om...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?

rms
Check the AMD site itself, and look in Processors - Processor Pricing.

The range is not nearly as diminished as that article suggests.

JW

Steve Wolfe wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?


AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down their
32-bit offerings to get to that point.

Newegg is as I write selling the 32-bit 2800+ Retail for $147 and the
64-bit 2800+ Retail for $141.

Joe_Z wrote:
that's what i'm afraid of, forced upgrading, ugh...

"Steve Wolfe" wrote in message
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?

AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down

their

32-bit offerings to get to that point.

In what sense is anyone forced to upgrade?

"Matt" wrote in message
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Joe_Z wrote:
that's what i'm afraid of, forced upgrading, ugh...

"Steve Wolfe" wrote in message
...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?

AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down

their

32-bit offerings to get to that point.

In what sense is anyone forced to upgrade?

to 64bitness he means..
People still cant understand why AMD are trying to push 64bitness when they
can do just as good with 32bitness .. But they dont do enough reading to
know that Intel is going the same path and that Micro(take ur ass to court
to get all ur ****)Soft & Linux (neopolitan flavor) are supporting/will
support these chips.

Some users want to run dos 4.0 too and I guess they dont like being pushed

"Matt" wrote in message
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Steve Wolfe wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?


AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down
their
32-bit offerings to get to that point.

Newegg is as I write selling the 32-bit 2800+ Retail for $147 and the
64-bit 2800+ Retail for $141.

From the point of view of building a new PC, anyone would have to be
*insane* to base it on a 32bit XP.

The only role for those chips nowadays is lowest-possible-cost workstation
to do email etc only. Anything else, should be 64-bit. Why? because its
no more expensive, the performance is as good or better (and will get better
still when 64-bit windows arrives) and its much more future proof.

***However***

The situation is a lot more difficult if you already have a decent 32 bit
PC. I would like to move to 64bit myself. I have a 32 bit XP running
2400MHz and its probably the weakest link in my system. (I have 2 x Raptors
in Raid0, a GF6800 running 440/1150MHz and 1 GB of ram.) Most of the
benchies I run come out real well on disk & graphics and only "fair" on CPU.

But what cost for me to upgrade my CPU? Well to make it worthwhile, I would
have to go for perhaps an Athlon 3800 or above. I would need a new
motherboard. And a new heatsink and fan (and a good one too - I have a
decent Thermalright job at the moment). And maybe even another 1GB
registered memory if I went for an FX CPU. I am looking at perhaps $1,000
simply to give me a 30 ~ 40% CPU speed boost, and maybe an overall 10%
system speed improvement.

I can't possibly justify it.

Chip

ditto...
"rstlne" wrote in message
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"Matt" wrote in message
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Joe_Z wrote:
that's what i'm afraid of, forced upgrading, ugh...


In what sense is anyone forced to upgrade?

to 64bitness he means..
People still cant understand why AMD are trying to push 64bitness when
they
can do just as good with 32bitness .. But they dont do enough reading to
know that Intel is going the same path and that Micro(take ur ass to court
to get all ur ****)Soft & Linux (neopolitan flavor) are supporting/will
support these chips.

Some users want to run dos 4.0 too and I guess they dont like being pushed

boy this group has changed, this was overclocking.amd, now it's deep
pockets.amd, get a grip man, like there's nothing but 64bit and ALL the
software for it now, sheesh, give me a break...

"Chip" wrote in message
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"Matt" wrote in message
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Steve Wolfe wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/amd_price_cuts/

What's this about discontinuing some XP-M models tho?


AMD wants to get rid of the 32-bit line in favor of the 64-bit line,
they've been saying that forever. They're just slowly whittling down
their
32-bit offerings to get to that point.

Newegg is as I write selling the 32-bit 2800+ Retail for $147 and the
64-bit 2800+ Retail for $141.

From the point of view of building a new PC, anyone would have to be
*insane* to base it on a 32bit XP.

The only role for those chips nowadays is lowest-possible-cost workstation
to do email etc only. Anything else, should be 64-bit. Why? because its
no more expensive, the performance is as good or better (and will get
better
still when 64-bit windows arrives) and its much more future proof.

***However***

The situation is a lot more difficult if you already have a decent 32 bit
PC. I would like to move to 64bit myself. I have a 32 bit XP running
2400MHz and its probably the weakest link in my system. (I have 2 x
Raptors
in Raid0, a GF6800 running 440/1150MHz and 1 GB of ram.) Most of the
benchies I run come out real well on disk & graphics and only "fair" on
CPU.

But what cost for me to upgrade my CPU? Well to make it worthwhile, I
would
have to go for perhaps an Athlon 3800 or above. I would need a new
motherboard. And a new heatsink and fan (and a good one too - I have a
decent Thermalright job at the moment). And maybe even another 1GB
registered memory if I went for an FX CPU. I am looking at perhaps $1,000
simply to give me a 30 ~ 40% CPU speed boost, and maybe an overall 10%
system speed improvement.

I can't possibly justify it.

Chip