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Hardware AMD CPU Price Cuts Now Official
Anh Tuan Huynh (Blog) - July 24, 2006 3:48 AM

63 comment(s) - last by masher2.. on Jul 25 at 9:36 AM

AMD's official pricing outlined on the AMD website

Value pricing on all AMD products

AMD has officially cut prices on its product lineup. The price cuts are in line of what DailyTech previously reported. AMD’s flagship Athlon 64 FX-62 has dropped down to $827 while the high-end Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is priced at a more affordable $310. Also previously reported, the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and 4800+ for Socket 939 and AM2 platforms have been discontinued. This leaves AMD with 11 dual-core products.

AMD’s single-core product lineup is left with seven models with the Athlon 64 3800+, 3500+ and 3200+ in Socket AM2, 939 and energy efficient configurations. Most of the Sempron desktop lineup has fallen below the $100 mark, with the exception of the Sempron 3600+ which is $101.

This will be AMD’s only desktop price cut for the next couple of months.

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Can't find it

By vingamm on 7/24/2006 8:35:11 AM , Rating: 2

I have gone to New Egg, Price Watch and Tiger Direct and I and I still see the old prices. I am speculating that they are trying to clear their old inventory.

RE: Can't find it

By lt paul on 7/24/2006 8:45:13 AM , Rating: 2

NCIX is showing the prices if you look for them.

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RE: Can't find it

By phatboye on 7/24/2006 8:58:05 AM , Rating: 2

Why did AMD discontinue the 4800+ I was planning on grabbing one once the prices fell?

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RE: Can't find it

By EPAstor on 7/24/2006 10:24:06 AM , Rating: 2

Because the 4800+ was the same speed as the 4600+, but with more cache - and performance gains were very small. AMD's production capacity is limited, and more cache eats up more die space - so they couldn't afford to keep producing high-cache chips when they could instead reorganize to produce more lower-cache chips (which perform near-identically).

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RE: Can't find it

By Michael7 on 7/24/2006 11:11:55 AM , Rating: 2

Monarch has the X2 4800 for $345 but it is showing on backorder. Does the increased cache make it worth the price over the X2 4600 for $ 259.99?

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RE: Can't find it

By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 11:56:50 AM , Rating: 2

Depending on what you do it can make around a 5% difference, but don't quote me on that. I am a little rusty in that area. I would get the higher clock if it were me; if I had the money.

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RE: Can't find it

By l33th41 on 7/24/2006 12:43:22 PM , Rating: 2

Monarch dropped the prices over the weekend sometime. I managed to find it early enough so I was able to purchase the X2 4800 for $320. Looks like they raised the price today due to extremely high demand.

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RE: Can't find it

By c4xiayu on 7/24/2006 9:45:41 AM , Rating: 2

Yes, i ordered one x2 3800 for $170 cdn shipping included, cannot wait.

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RE: Can't find it

By jonp on 7/24/2006 1:22:37 PM , Rating: 2

12:20pm CST, just went to NCIX (USA):

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core Processor Socket AM2 Windsor 2.0GHZ 2X512KB 89W 90NM Retail Box (ADA3800CUBOX)
Free Ground Shipping!
2 Customer Reviews In Stock $361.87

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RE: Can't find it

By aos007 on 7/24/2006 1:39:01 PM , Rating: 2

In fact NCIX sent a mail on Sunday(!!) with new pricing! I have never EVER saw them do that in 10 years I shop with them. I almost fell off my chair when I saw 3800+ pricing. I paid $600+ on 4400+ this time last year as my unprecedented high-end processor purchase. But that one is "finally" becoming midrange now (perhaps even lower midrange) with Conroe officially going on sale.

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RE: Can't find it

By Kindjal on 7/24/2006 8:59:39 AM , Rating: 2

This morning, Monarch Computer Systems had the AMD X2 4600+ S939 for $259.99. While I did not check the rest of Monarch's processor prices, I suspect that Monarch currently offers AMD's new processor pricing.

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RE: Can't find it

By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 9:30:24 AM , Rating: 2

X2 3800+ For $162

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RE: Can't find it

By rgsaunders on 7/24/2006 10:28:57 AM , Rating: 2

No, they only have some of the older single cores price dropped, they haven't dropped their prices on the dual cores yet.

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RE: Can't find it

By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 10:40:09 AM , Rating: 2

Then what is this

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant....

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RE: Can't find it

By bob661 on 7/24/2006 5:12:42 PM , Rating: 2

quote:
Then what is this

Looks like they raised prices up a little. Demand must be pretty high right now.

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RE: Can't find it

By SixFour on 7/24/2006 9:07:52 AM , Rating: 2

The Canadian retailer CanadaComputers.com has the new pricing

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RE: Can't find it

By dice1111 on 7/24/2006 10:04:03 AM , Rating: 2

Your right, all the new CPU's have been updated except the FX-62 which is listed at $1,418.99, whats up with that?

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RE: Can't find it

By coldpower27 on 7/24/2006 2:10:02 PM , Rating: 2

Its' changed and down to 989 CAN, which is alright I guess, for a flagship. Not that I would ever purhcase a 1k CAN processor.

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RE: Can't find it

By HETT on 7/24/2006 9:14:51 AM , Rating: 2

Newegg is California, so I suspect they won't come to work and update the database for a couple of more hours. :)

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RE: Can't find it

By techfuzz on 7/24/2006 10:59:47 AM , Rating: 2

Good call. I waiting for Newegg to update their pricing before I make my upgrade purchases this week. I've been holding off for 3 months until these processor prices drop. Hopefully today will be the day!

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RE: Can't find it

By sagagenesis on 7/24/2006 9:30:14 AM , Rating: 2

don't see any top-tier retailers w/ these prices yet, not newegg, zipzoomfly, tigerdirect...

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RE: Can't find it

By coldpower27 on 7/24/2006 2:24:42 PM , Rating: 2

ZipZoomFly now has some on both the Intel and AMD side.

the 4200+, 4600+ AM2 are closer to the AMD listed prices as well as the 940 and 950 for Intel's Pentium D line, as well as the Sempron 2800+ & 3000+ AM2

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RE: Can't find it

By matttheman on 7/24/2006 1:50:32 PM , Rating: 2

Monarch has the price drops already!

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/

They have stock as well. I bought several this weekend and they have already shipped them. Great company and even better prices!!!

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NewEgg

By meyerds on 7/24/2006 1:33:18 PM , Rating: 2

Anyone know when NewEgg drops their prices? I'm waiting on it to get myself a 3800+ X2 for Socket AM2.

I just did a customer service live chat at NewEgg and the customer service rep wasn't able to give me any information on when the site would be updated - time or date for that matter. She said that she had already prodded the marketing dept. about it.

That's all I know. Anyone else know anything?

RE: NewEgg

By matttheman on 7/24/2006 1:45:40 PM , Rating: 2

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RE: NewEgg

By meyerds on 7/24/2006 3:16:52 PM , Rating: 2

NewEgg has updated their prices as of 1:59PM today!

Get your cut-price CPUs now!

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RE: NewEgg

By johnsonx on 7/24/2006 4:19:46 PM , Rating: 2

SOME of their prices are updated, and they're all still higher than they'll likely be in a week or two.

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RE: NewEgg

By yacoub on 7/24/2006 4:34:51 PM , Rating: 2

No, their s939 4600+ is still close to $550, not $240. WTF.
Them, ZZF, and ChiefValue are all still old prices. Their loss.

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RE: NewEgg

By Marlin1975 on 7/24/2006 6:48:41 PM , Rating: 2

Yea but www.zipzoomfly.com is cheaper and offers free Fed-Ex shipping.

I miss the old newegg. The new one that jacks prices and has bad shipping, UPS, is not what I want.

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RE: NewEgg

By techfuzz on 7/24/2006 8:55:33 PM , Rating: 2

Egg just dropped the 4600+ (939) down to $269 a minute ago.

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RE: NewEgg

By bob661 on 7/24/2006 10:15:09 PM , Rating: 3

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The new one that jacks prices and has bad shipping, UPS, is not what I want.

Ease up on the crack. You can still get FedEx at Newegg. Oh, that's right, no one knows how to read anymore. My mistake.

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RE: NewEgg

By Marlin1975 on 7/25/2006 4:34:36 AM , Rating: 2

Oh and its free like zipzoomfly right? Oh no its not.

Newgg cost more and if you want a decent shipper you have to pay even more on top of that.
Try again crack boy.

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When will we see it?

By Randalllind on 7/24/2006 11:06:42 AM , Rating: 2

Newegg drope the amd 64 3800 x2 by $8 $297 now $289. That is not 46%!

RE: When will we see it?

By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 11:16:07 AM , Rating: 2

I think they did that either yesterday or the day before. I know for a fact that it was not today.

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RE: When will we see it?

By Randalllind on 7/24/2006 11:43:33 AM , Rating: 2

Bills are so high because of gass prices I won't be able to get a X2 chip until power bill goes down. I did plan to get a 3800+ in September for my birthday.

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RE: When will we see it?

By fxnick on 7/24/2006 11:50:34 AM , Rating: 2

you buy yourself birthday presents?

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RE: When will we see it?

By aos007 on 7/24/2006 1:34:59 PM , Rating: 2

Why not? I do, too. It's a nice justification for big purchases. Not that I need to justify it to anyone.

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RE: When will we see it?

By Randalllind on 7/24/2006 1:40:33 PM , Rating: 2

My dog doesn't some I buy them and put my dog name on it. :P

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RE: When will we see it?

By ElJefe69 on 7/24/2006 1:28:34 PM , Rating: 2

I have a blow up girlfriend

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RE: When will we see it?

By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 2:24:50 PM , Rating: 2

I love those

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Wow...

By redbone75 on 7/24/2006 6:18:46 AM , Rating: 3

And to think a X2 3800+ was $300 USD only a day ago... Quite an attractive price indeed for that 5000+, but (and I really don't want to start any flame wars), to state the obvious, an E6600 Conroe is in that price range at $316 USD and the better performer. HOWEVER, motherboard prices will play a huge factor in many people's decisions on upgrading, especially considering every 975X mobo I've seen is in the $250+ range. Oh, well, I personally will still be going Conroe, ahem, Core 2 Duo as my 2.4c Northwood is rather long in the tooth (I don't game on my PC much at all, so don't rag on me:) Oh, and the overclocking potential on the C2D's... an absolute thing of beauty it's going to be when I upgrade.

RE: Wow...

By BladeVenom on 7/24/2006 7:57:20 AM , Rating: 2

Well, an overclocked 2.4 Northwood is still good enough for gaming. No games require dual core, only a couple take advantage of dual core, and I don't even think they recommend you have a dual core. No one really needs a new expensive processors for gaming.

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RE: Wow...

By GoatMonkey on 7/24/2006 8:15:12 AM , Rating: 1

blah, blah, blah,... nobody needs...

512k is plenty...

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RE: Wow...

By Vertigo101 on 7/24/2006 10:49:56 AM , Rating: 1

"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996

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RE: Wow...

By dagamer34 on 7/24/2006 12:19:08 PM , Rating: 2

[url=http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1484,00....]You're so wrong![/url]

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RE: Wow...

By masher2

(blog) on 7/25/2006 9:36:22 AM , Rating: 2

> "You're so wrong!"

Bill Gates may not have said that, but I recall one editor of a major computer magazine who was actually angry about personal computers shipping with 64K (not 640K) of RAM. He felt that any and all programs could be written in 48K, and thus the 'extra' memory would just lead to code bloat.

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X2 3800+ on 939 discontinued too?

By Shizzo on 7/24/2006 6:00:21 AM , Rating: 2

Is this true?
Or just an error in the table?

RE: X2 3800+ on 939 discontinued too?

By Clauzii on 7/24/2006 6:19:46 AM , Rating: 2

It looks like it's only the SmallFormFactor model. The normal EE model is ther :)

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RE: X2 3800+ on 939 discontinued too?

By Ard on 7/24/2006 6:20:29 AM , Rating: 3

The 3800+ is still there, priced at $152 and $176 for the normal/EE models respectively What you probably saw was the EESMF 3800+, which doesn't have a price listed. The chart mentions that distributors should be contacted for those prices, which sounds like they may be OEM only chips.

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RE: X2 3800+ on 939 discontinued too?

By kirbalo on 7/24/2006 9:52:27 AM , Rating: 3

They're just allowing for "Market Pricing" similar to the S939 Opterons a few months ago when they were "removed" and replaced with (***)...this allows the disty. to set the market price based on demand...which should be high for the 35W parts...

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Mwave has new Prices

By vhdiceman on 7/24/2006 11:00:31 AM , Rating: 2

Hey guys, Mwave.com had the new prices as of last night...

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/amdjewl.hmx?

GO GO GO $!@!@

RE: Mwave has new Prices

By maevinj on 7/24/2006 11:17:35 AM , Rating: 2

There is no stock on any of their x2 (939) chips

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RE: Mwave has new Prices

By vhdiceman on 7/24/2006 11:32:19 AM , Rating: 2

Yea wtf....no AM2 or 939 in stock. Bah!

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RE: Mwave has new Prices

By vijay333 on 7/24/2006 12:15:47 PM , Rating: 2

Mwave seems to have some in stock now (3800, 4200, 4600) - too bad they're based in California (state taxes)

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/DeptCPU.hmx?

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Funny...

By yacoub on 7/24/2006 6:37:28 AM , Rating: 2

Those prices are all $20-35 higher than what was written on the AMD chart you posted last week. Was the previous one fake or did AMD just not lower the prices quite as much as originally planned?

RE: Funny...

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 7/24/2006 6:57:48 AM , Rating: 4

We posted distributor prices. These are retail prices. AMD authorized resellers are allowed to sell below the retail prices but not below the distributor prices, which is what typically happens.

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Nice, but...

By Galactic on 7/24/2006 6:40:12 AM , Rating: 2

Where's the 5000+ EE? That's the most attractive AMD processor IMO.

RE: Nice, but...

By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 8:40:16 AM , Rating: 2

Ya, this chart is really lacking.

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Not In Stock

By Slaimus on 7/24/2006 5:20:20 PM , Rating: 2

According to mwave, these will not be in until 7/25. That is probably why newegg and such do not show the new prices.

RE: Not In Stock

By Chernobyl68 on 7/24/2006 6:35:57 PM , Rating: 2

Well, they didn't pay the lower price to buy the chips, so they're kind of hurting existing stock...these price drops might result in them being sold for less than they actually bought them for.

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Nice!!

By Clauzii on 7/24/2006 5:35:19 AM , Rating: 3

Lower prices on CPU's and the newly bought ATI can only make times better for this big player now.

Considering AMD is now owner of One of the best GPU makers in the world, what will happen between Intel and nVidia?? - if anything.

Energy Efficient in US?

By adobemac on 7/25/2006 12:02:53 AM , Rating: 2

Has anyone found the ADO... series (energy efficient 65W) Athlon 64 X2 cpus for sale anywhere in the US?

Processors swept from shelfs

By darek on 7/25/2006 5:49:56 AM , Rating: 2

1 day after price cuts almost all AMD Athlons
are sold out by my local distributor.
This mean that people want to buy AMD even
if they know about Intel Core.
They only wanted lower price.