Chip prices fall at AMD

[Jake_Barnes]

Advanced Micro Devices cut prices over the weekend on some dual-core desktop processors and Turion mobile processors, bringing them more in line with the prices of some Intel chips.

It's now cheaper to buy AMD's top five Athlon 64 X2 processors as well as the company's Turion ML notebook processors, if you're shopping in quantities of 1,000 processors. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ received the biggest discount among the desktop chips, moving from $803 to $643 over the weekend. The Turion ML-44 also received a hefty cut, down to $354 on Monday from $525 last week.

Source: Chip prices fall at AMD
By Tom Krazit
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: January 23, 2006

 

[mpjesse]

/me nods

AMD had a fine 4th Quarter last year too. They had $205 million in earnings. Can you say "capital"?

 

[shane1234]

Awesome! I noticed the price on the AMD 64 X2 4200+ at newegg went from $400 to $390. Not much, but 10 bucks is 10 bucks. I'm ready to buy soon, would it be a good idea to hold off another week or so, or is that as low as it's going to get for a while?

Ditto for the Gigabyte 6600GT vid card i've had my eye on?

 

[ArthurDent]

I recently bought a 4200+ X2. Wish I'd held off a couple of weeks now
I read reports of AMD cutting some lines at up to a third although I'm not sure how long that takes to reflect the actual retail prices.

 

[Jake_Barnes]

That's my question. How long does it "normally" take for these wholesale price cuts to be reflected at the retail (Newegg, etc.) level?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Thanks for the post. I missed the launch of the ML44 and MA44. Now to find someone who sells them. NewEgg did not have ML40 in stock. Just ML37.

 

[HardWareBoss]

I've been waiting for the price of the X800XL AGP to go down for months. Let alone CPU prices.

 

[Slowdog2]

Thats good news .....altho it seems like most of the stuff I have been investgating(sp) at NewEgg went up in price the last week!!
fugures I waited to decide just what I was gonna get till I had more info and it all goes up :roll:

 

[tylerthedruid]

What time of the year is best to buy PC parts? It's right after christmas and parts are actually going up?

Maybe since AGP cards are getting 'rarer', prices are rising. Who knows.

 

[mpjesse]

The best time is usually when a new generation of processors come out (or right before). In this particular case, AMD is ramping up production of Socket M2 processors so they can be in a position to offload Socket 939/940 inventory as quickly as possible. The longer inventory sits, the less money everyone makes.

Holiday season has some effect, but not a whole lot.



-mpjesse

 

[giper54]

Here is what I heard:

"I am a design engineer and I work with several hardware testers. The goal I hear is a mid to late April ship date for 12 new processors.
It is going to be a big release and socket 939 processors should drop like a rock. The new processor line should be comparable to prices just before this months drop for there new lineup. So a low end dual core for socket AM2 I would expect to be around 350 to 400

Remeber it takes a week or two for prices to hit most places if you are going for a socket 939 processor.

I am waiting myself to build a new system in May"

 

[mpjesse]

Roger that. Expect motherboards to be priced really high too. (initially anyways)

But DDR2 prices should drop fairly quickly too.

-mpjesse

 

[Jake_Barnes]

So, my best price timing for a major upgrade/build would be ... ? **awaits drum roll** May?


But Pat ... I'm concerned about temps ... what to do?

 

[bourgeoisdude]

No idea. I got a mobo that'll support the M2 cpu if I get a riser card for it though, so I'm fine. Funny how one of the cheapest mobos around seems to have the best features...well except for SLi I suppose...

 

[mpasternak]

I problably wont wait till may.. once the 4200+ drops below 400 i'll be replaceing my 3700 with it

 

[k2000k]

The weird things is that while I am searching for good deals on RAM I am finding better deals on DDR2 than DDR? Can anyone explain this?

 

[sepuko]

The guys that sell hardware here don't know that. And they will never learn about it. Im kiddin. They know. They just don't give a sh.. about it. They know that they are the only option. You have to have a political back up to import computer hardware here. With a VAT of 20% here it's only more expensive to order hardware through internet(the cost of shipment will make it a nightmare to pay). So, are there any real news?

 

[Slowdog2]

DDR is like the AGP of video cards it on its way out but those of us that still want to upgrade or build a new pc now! and don't want to wait for AMD support for DDR2 got no choice! ....they know what ya gonna do yer gonna spend a couple of bucks extra on Ram complaining maybe but they know!

 

[HideOut]

all this talk about AMD M2 socket in May sounds wrong, wasnt it just posted it'd be september now?

 

[bourgeoisdude]

That, and it is also NOT M2 it is Socket AM2. Course I said it wrong before too...

 

[HideOut]

Right, well they just announced the official name, of which ive yet to type. hell the way its going it might be 2007 before we see it... I'll change to socket OMFG its late again as the name by then

 

[endyen]

The weird things is that while I am searching for good deals on RAM I am finding better deals on DDR2 than DDR?

It's the law of supply and demand. Manus made a bunch of DDR2 expecting it to take off, because Intel is promoting it. The sales quantity never materialized, so they are dumping it.

 

[tylerthedruid]

No idea. I got a mobo that'll support the M2 cpu if I get a riser card for it though, so I'm fine. Funny how one of the cheapest mobos around seems to have the best features...well except for SLi I suppose...

How is that mobo going for you? I just ordered one.

 

[ak47is1337]

when will AMD's 65nm's coming? What about the opteron 939's, I heard AMD is taking some out of production. Also, what is taking so long for the FX55's to drop in price??! They were supposed to drop to 600 something with the FX60's release, and I would LOVE to pick one up and mess with liquid nitrogen =)

 

[bourgeoisdude]

Works great, no major problems, though sometimes the AGP drivers can be a hassle (if you forget to install them that is). I do not overclock but well...my specs are below, no hardware instability of any sort. The video card I have sucks , but the board works fine for me with the X2 4400+ cpu...