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


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?


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).


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?


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


RE: Can't find it
By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 9:30:24 AM , Rating: 2
X2 3800+ For $162


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.


RE: Can't find it
By mendocinosummit on 7/24/2006 10:40:09 AM , Rating: 2
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.


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


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?


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.


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. :)


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!


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...


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