AMD 939 Procs In Short Supply? Ughh...

[jrphoenix]

Bad news showed up at xbit: Xbitlabs Story. It looks like there will be very very few 939 procs when they are officially launched. I have been waiting for these procs before upgrading and now we may all have to wait longer :Q

I hope it's not true.... but???

 

[Schadenfroh]

screw that, i might as well get a nforce3 150, audigy 2, and a 1mb cache 3200 and wait untill that stuff gets released untill upgrading, nforce3 150 mobos are cheap

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
screw that, i might as well get a nforce3 150, audigy 2, and a 1mb cache 3200 and wait untill that stuff gets released untill upgrading, nforce3 150 mobos are cheap

Go for it.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Bad news showed up at xbit: Xbitlabs Story. It looks like there will be very very few 939 procs when they are officially launched. I have been waiting for these procs before upgrading and now we may all have to wait longer :Q

I hope it's not true.... but???

PLEASE don't tell me that you're surprised! Everyone has been waiting for these since the moment they were announced. They're going to be in short supply for quite awhile after their release. Well, at least until all the other people who've been waiting for them have one.

 

[klah]

Well if they are announced the last week in May, with availability in early June "50 thousand of 939-pin AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors available in the second quarter of the year" is only referring to the first few weeks after they come out.

If Kristopher is correct the only three s939 cpus at launch will be 3500+, 3800+ and Fx-53, so it seems they won't be cheap either.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: klah
Well if they are announced the last week in May, with availability in early June "50 thousand of 939-pin AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors available in the second quarter of the year" is only referring to the first few weeks after they come out.

If Kristopher is correct the only three s939 cpus at launch will be 3500+, 3800+ and Fx-53, so it seems they won't be cheap either.

And I assure you that they won't be in short supply in early June! They just decided to release a few early, so everyone could find out how well they perform and overclock, if you ask me, so that by the time they're ready to mass produce them, people will be standing in line for them. AMD doesn't have the multi-billion-dollar advertising budget that Intel has, so they have to do something.

 

[Jeff7181]

I don't know why anybody would buy a product the minute it hits the market anyway... prices are inflated to ungodly amounts purely because it's new. Don't believe me? Ask everyone who bought an Athlon-64 3200+ in January only to see it drop $150+ in one day.

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Bad news showed up at xbit: Xbitlabs Story. It looks like there will be very very few 939 procs when they are officially launched. I have been waiting for these procs before upgrading and now we may all have to wait longer :Q

I hope it's not true.... but???

PLEASE don't tell me that you're surprised! Everyone has been waiting for these since the moment they were announced. They're going to be in short supply for quite awhile after their release. Well, at least until all the other people who've been waiting for them have one.

Not surprised..... just disappointed that my expectations were met. I was hoping for a "possible?" pleasant surprise........ I guess the money in my wallet will have to sit there a little while longer.

 

[loafbred]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
screw that, i might as well get a nforce3 150, audigy 2, and a 1mb cache 3200 and wait untill that stuff gets released untill upgrading, nforce3 150 mobos are cheap

I'm very happy with my nForce3-150 and 3200+, but you might want to get the nForce3-250, which should be available somewhere, right now. I read that the AGP lock on the 150 isn't working on the 150 boards being sold now, even though it was working on nVidia's reference board. The 250 series boards being produced supposedly have working AGP lock. My board seems to hit a sudden wall at just over 220 bus with an ATI 9800 Pro. At 220*10, it gets 21,000 3DMark 2001, and 6,150 3DMark03. Gaming is quite a bit smoother than the Barton at 2200 and NF7 that I had just before this.