AM2 Pricing Announced

[ltcommander_data]

These are Suggested System Builder Prices so actual manufacturer prices should be about 10% lower.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1601

Pricing is okay at the top-end considering they will be the best performing products at the time of launch, however Intel is really squeezing them on the lower-end dual core market. Taking into account the 10% lower prices, the 950D will be pitted against the X2 4000+ which will make for some interesting competition. The X2 4000+ is a new model too, probably 2GHz with 1MB L2 cache per core. The 940D will be against the X2 3800+ and the 930D will be all alone at $209. The 805D will be there too of course although it'll only last about a month after AM2 launches before the 3GHz 925D replaces it.

 

[pengwin]

nice find

 

[MadModMike]

These are Suggested System Builder Prices so actual manufacturer prices should be about 10% lower.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1601

Pricing is okay at the top-end considering they will be the best performing products at the time of launch, however Intel is really squeezing them on the lower-end dual core market. Taking into account the 10% lower prices, the 950D will be pitted against the X2 4000+ which will make for some interesting competition. The X2 4000+ is a new model too, probably 2GHz with 1MB L2 cache per core. The 940D will be against the X2 3800+ and the 930D will be all alone at $209. The 805D will be there too of course although it'll only last about a month after AM2 launches before the 3GHz 925D replaces it.

Those are pretty good prices, flooding the market with tons of varieties of Dual-Core and still Single-Core. Should be interesting to see the prices on Newegg and such probably 10% ABOVE those, lol.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[Caboose-1]

Yay!

 

[ikjadoon]

agreed. I hope that 5000+ overclocks well, lol. Look at that price difference! I think the first CPU over 1k+ was the FX-57... Shame they just keep getting higher...

~Ibrahim~

 

[MadModMike]

agreed. I hope that 5000+ overclocks well, lol. Look at that price difference! I think the first CPU over 1k+ was the FX-57... Shame they just keep getting higher...

~Ibrahim~

Technically the first CPU IS that FX-62, at least by a large margin, because the FX-57 was $999 MSRP and it lowered the FX-55, and the FX-60 was $1,001 IIRC.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[YO_KID37]

Yay, I'm going To buy AM2 with a 5000+ lol i finally have the money to afford the setup and it a 4Shizzle now!. Conroe better like perform better and be overclockable and give Energy efficiency and be Cheaper than the setup i'm thinking about to Sway my Vote from buying AM2 and a 5000+X2

 

[ikjadoon]

lol, okay, you caught me! FX prices seem to resemble the EE pricing, well, most of them...

~Ibrahim~

 

[MadModMike]

lol, okay, you caught me! FX prices seem to resemble the EE pricing, well, most of them...

~Ibrahim~

Yea but only 1 of those CPU's (FX or EE) is WORTH the $$$$, I'll leave you to decide which it is.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[Heyyou27]

The EE of course! :lol:

 

[wstcoaster07]

Will people really pay 1k for a processor when the conroe seems like it will easily beat it out and yet only cost 530US?

 

[Grimmy]

sounds like the core should be made out of a 2 carrot diamond, rather then sand.. err silicon, for 1k....

 

[MadModMike]

Will people really pay 1k for a processor when the conroe seems like it will easily beat it out and yet only cost 530US?

Ahem.....

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[a1ien]

Will people really pay 1k for a processor when the conroe seems like it will easily beat it out and yet only cost 530US?

Wait, are you dumb? Oh, okay. I'll disregard your comment then.

 

[YO_KID37]

Will people really pay 1k for a processor when the conroe seems like it will easily beat it out and yet only cost 530US?

Wait, are you dumb? Oh, okay. I'll disregard your comment then.

Umm. actually he's right
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/11/intel_conroe_to_launch_in_q3/
Lol. srry for ruining your Bashing but just needed to make sure it does'nt go on too long while the basher is kinda wrong.

 

[wstcoaster07]

hey now, no need to get harsh. but can you elaborate? I am not an expert obviously

 

[MadModMike]

Yep, one really has to aprreciate the earlyness which Intel was able to bring out 65nm. Not does it scale much better and being cheaper for low-end, it's also cheaper to produce and they're making more money than they did with 90nm.

I hope that hasn't given Intel too much advantage just yet so AMD can still make more profit and push out 65nm slighly earlier to bring the prices for low-end DC down to the level of Intel.

No! Kasakeh!

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[MadModMike]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... [/Dr. Evil]

Hahahha, you don't even know what I'm talking about...hehehehe :twisted:

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

 

[a1ien]

Will people really pay 1k for a processor when the conroe seems like it will easily beat it out and yet only cost 530US?

Wait, are you dumb? Oh, okay. I'll disregard your comment then.

Umm. actually he's right
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/11/intel_conroe_to_launch_in_q3/
Lol. srry for ruining your Bashing but just needed to make sure it does'nt go on too long while the basher is kinda wrong.

It seems that I have been proven wrong, my apologies.

 

[hashv2f16]

Will people really pay 1k for a processor when the conroe seems like it will easily beat it out and yet only cost 530US?

you never know. the kind of people who buy this processor are the kind of people who can afford to buy both.

 

[qurious69ss]

Conroe E6600 2.40GHz = $300 is 20% faster than the atholon X2 5000 = $700..........something just don't add up.....

 

[endyen]

The part I dont understand is, why are the chips going up in price?

 

[Dade_0182]

You guys still get it cheap. Here in SA we can get the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ for no less than $460 if you translate it directly. Prices are insane here. I really hope Conroe and AM2 creates a huge price drop in this gen cpus.


Sorry, my bad. Had the wrong price list. They are about $400 now

 

[Grimmy]

Correct me if I'm wrong...

But I think Conroe (generation) would be the only thing the may influence price drops.

AM2 from what I understand, is a socket form, in order to use DDR2. Not seeing how that would affect AMD prices. Only thing I see there is to get AMD users on a platform designed for newer DDR2 memory.

 

[Dade_0182]

Not wrong at all.

I just think that Conroe might actually influence AMD prices too. Conroe will be the superior(performance and price) cpu when it is released eventhough I hate to admit it. AMD will have to drop their prices at least a little if they still want to be competitive, the FX series is more expensive and does not match Conroe.

I'm just hoping i guess...

I won't have the money to upgrade till the end of the year anyhow so it does not really matter that much to me.