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bricker
24-07-2006, 11:28 PM
CHIP FIRM AMD took an axe to its processor pricing over the weekend.
AMD and arch rival Intel both blamed each other for tumbling revenues in last week's earnings reports filed by the companies. But that hasn't stopped AMD continuing to bullishly go after market share.
The firm has cut prices across its range of desktop processors. Its top-of-the-range Dual-Core Model 285 now costs PC makers $1,051 when they buy in the thousands.
At the other end of the scale, a Sempron 2800+ (socket AM2 and 754) is now priced at just $47.
The company published its new list of processor prices Processor Pricing (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Expect the firm to hack away at its server line next week as it unbridles its new-flavour Socket F Opteron on August 1st

The-Wappy-One
24-07-2006, 11:59 PM
its been on the way for a while now ;) hit the date on the head lol

http://world-of-digital.com/forums/bargain-basement/1236-cpu-prices-drop.html

bricker
25-07-2006, 12:42 AM
lol thought it was another drop sorry wappy

wim
25-07-2006, 12:13 PM
OOooh. Time to upgrade me thinks!

carvegio
28-07-2006, 06:44 PM
better to wait and see how the next gen intel chips are, look great

martinuk
01-02-2007, 12:56 AM
i just bought a amd 2 3800 daul core 100 pound from pc world is that good deal

The-Wappy-One
01-02-2007, 01:39 AM
price not bad but the shop is pants lol

/me spits on pc World

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martinuk
01-02-2007, 04:38 AM
mines dock am2??? any diff from 939

y2krog2000
01-02-2007, 09:02 AM
mines dock am2??? any diff from 939
Not much difference but am2 is newer but if you were upgrading and wanted to use am2 you would probably need to buy new memory to depending on your old board and you can get far more stuff for 939 ATM.

evilclive
19-02-2007, 02:57 AM
mines dock am2??? any diff from 939

Socket AM2 CPUs have 940 pins. They are not pin-compatible with socket 939 CPUs, or with the 940-pin Opteron CPUs (if you remember them.)

The main difference is that socket AM2 is designed to use DDR2 memory, whereas the older chips use original DDR. The two types of memory are not interchangeable.

Socket AM2 is AMD's main platform, and the others are considered obsolete. You may be able to find, at ridiculous expense, an old 2.6GHz dual-core socket 939 CPU, but I'd be very surprised if there are ever any further developments in socket 939 CPUs. Whereas 2.8GHz dual-core socket AM2 CPUs are soon going to be rather cheap, as headbangers replace them with quad-core CPUs.

Later on, AMD are going to introduce:

Socket AM2+, which will have AMD's version of Intel's Hyper-Threading technology;

Socket AM3, which will work with DDR3 memory (the sort that's already used in decent graphics cards).

But these new technologies will (AMD promises) be backwards compatible with socket AM2.

snake
22-02-2007, 12:22 AM
I am told that the only reason that amd have slashed their prices is because they cannot compete with the performance of the Intel core duo's etc

KoFi G
27-02-2007, 12:08 AM
hope intel come down my local pc shop said wait to buy 10 days ago
I am looking to upgrade main pc to E6600 and p5deluxe wifi asus