AMD's Athlon X2 price cuts go into effect

2CPU ^ | 2007-04-11 09:24:22 | ReMeDy

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ingle Socket Bargain shoppers, rejoice. AMD went full speed with their price slashing on April 9th.

Source say the Athlon 64 X2 3600 price dropped to $69, the Athlon 64 X2 3800 dropped to $79, the X2 4000 price fell to $99, and the X2 4200 was effectively discontinued. Meanwhile, the higher end Athlon X2 6000 dual core price plummeted more than 50 percent to $229, while the Athlon X2 5600 dropped $50 to $179.

Having competition in this market can lead to good things. Article.

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Newegg has the 3000+ back in stock at $245...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - Retail

Just got mine fired up yesterday....purchased with an ECS microATX motherboard at Freys for less even than the Newegg detail over the weekend.

Runs NICE....2 Gig of A-Data DDR2 memory....and Sabayon Linux with the Beryl incredible rotating cube desktop....

[VeniVidiVici]

They waited *way* too long to do this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the EE article linked above....

In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor said the current price war between AMD and Intel is the bloodiest in the processor market since the 386 battle more than a decade ago.

[corlorde]

Sweet, but I agree, they waited too long.

[Moose4]

Good. I’m a big AMD fan...my wife and I have been running old matching Athlon 2500 XPs for over four years now. Maybe if I hit the lottery, I’ll replace them with some more cutting-edge Athlons.

}:-)4

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Moore's Law

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Kurzweil expansion of Moore's Law shows that due to paradigm shifts the underlying trend holds true from integrated circuits to earlier transistors, vacuum tubes, relays and electromechanical computers.

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In this lengthy interview:( will need broad band link to view ) with the manager of AMD's Benchmarking group you will see applications running with the Quad Core...which is a few months away from becoming availiable....

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Candid Talk About Benchmarks from AMD

Gear Live's Bleeding Edge takes an interview with AMD's benchmarking guru in AMD's lab. He undoubtedly makes some statements that give us confidence in our "real world" testing stances for GPUs and CPUs. At about 45 minutes long, make sure you have frosty beverage at hand. We embedded the video below.

The Bleeding Edge 167 Exclusive: Inside the AMD Performance Testing Lab

[Marine_Uncle]

Sure looks like you got one heck of a system. Perhaps somewhere along the line I shall get a new system. Going to a new Home Depot tommorow to help with their grand opening.
I stopped by the store today, and got enterance and talked to a few people that had transfered from my current store to this new one. It is huge and super modern. Two level construction. And I was told that people who transfer can expect a few dollar/hour raise.
Who knows. If I impress the Electrical Department supervisor tommorow by doing a good job for them on opening day, I just may think about a transfer. In which case I could justify getting a new system as well as upgrading to DSL from my current 56kb dial up service.
If such where to happen. I will back in shopping mode to find a good price per performance match on a system. So I just may be hammering you for some details down the pike.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Put your best work clothes on and shine your teeth and smile pretty...good luck...we got to get you upgraded....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I’ve never heard of a Home Depot with two level construction....WOW!

[Malsua]

They definately waited too long. I was going to build a monster AMD but went Intel due to price/performance gap.

I just built my newest gaming rig. Core 2 Duo 6600(A Zalman 9700 to cool it), Evga 680I SLI board, 2gb 800mhz DDR2(4-4-4-12) and an EVGA 8800GTX. I’ll buy a second one soon as I get enough junk sold on Ebay. Oh and it’s powered by a Thermaltake 850Watt PS.

Even before the 2nd 8800GTX, it scores 36800 3dmarks in 3dMark03.

It’s always fun when it says “There are 528 systems faster than yours and 3,480,899 slower”. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye...sniff...hehe.

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It’s always fun when it says “There are 528 systems faster than yours and 3,480,899 slower”. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye...sniff...hehe.

Boy you are up there...congrats....

[Marine_Uncle]

"...we got to get you upgraded.."
heheh. Pretty good Ernest. Yes. This store has a mezanien (sp?). About half the back part of the store has two levels. I did not get go upstairs today, since technically I was not permitted in the store, I did not want to cause any problems.
Bottom line is. All the specialty departments, e.g. major appliances, floor and walling, kitchen and bath design are upstairs, and perhaps administrative offices.
The downside for those departments located underneath the second floor is that their shelves are much lower. So for instance in what I saw in the elect. dept. there was little room for overhead storage. Which dictates less area to store things. This could end up being a real problem if the store has a high volume customer base in these departments. In my store for instance we have two upper shelf layers, so that one can store things such as skids full of stuff on the upper shelf, and in the lower storage shelfs store things that we can easily reach by hand ladders, that get downpacked on a regular basis. Many a day I have to run up a ladder to grab a box of something as the lower shelves empty out.
At any rate, this place sure looks nice. Spanken new clean shiny floors, no smells and dust etc..
In my store all the lighting fixture boxes and displays are constantly covered by dust, due to our location next to the receiving department. Which is one filthy place. Tons of dust belch out as we have to dump lots of things down the grinder chute, and this dust works it way out of receiving into the elect. dept., and at the other end of the store in building and lumber, a similiar dust cloud occures and hundreds of contractors rip the shit out of all the bags of cement and things, ending up creating a lot of dust, as associates have to sweep the floors all day long.
In short. My store is a real pig pen both internally as well as outside the building. The land the building sits on for a hundred years was nothing but heavy industries. Imagine rendering plants where one would gag as they drove by due to the horrible smells, a creek that was almost raw sewage, trains full of dead animal parts (guts) that would sit in the hot summer sun, waiting to be sent to the rendering plants. Chemical companies, dye companies, tanneries etc.. I can still smell the land full of all the crap that was bull dozed over some twenty years back to reclaim the land for retailing and wholesaling companies to move in. Now one walks on parking lots belonging to McDonalds instead of triping into some cesspool full of rotting dead horses.
heh heh. All I write is/was a reality. Nothing invented or even exagertated in the least.
I smell chemicals on some days that I smelled fifty some years ago, that are not even part of the few remaining petro chemical plants processes. Real great place to life ah.