AMD Athlon 64 Price Drop Soon?

[ichief]

The more and more I look at price history at http://www.sharkextreme.com the more uncomfortable I feel about buying a 3000+ or 3200+ Athlon 64. I've been waiting for quite a while already and have the parts pretty much pieced together, but I feel that I should wait a week or two for Intel to release their Socket 775 stuff and allow the new prices to propagate before I buy the CPU. How likely will it be for AMD to drop their prices? How much do prices typically get dropped, and how much would these 2 chips vary afterwards? Does anyone know the exact date for Intel's new chipset?

 

[o1die]

I last heard June 21st. I doubt amd will change prices much. I'm waiting to see when they'll release cheaper versions of socket 939.

 

[Mik3y]

once socket 939 becomes more abundant in the market, then u should expect price drops a lil bit.

 

[ViperV990]

Don't places like Newegg usually drop their CPU prices before official announcements?

It's only 5 days away from S775 release...

I dunno, maybe we'll be waiting til end of July for the next drop.

 

[imported_chrisbtx]

With the release of the Newcastle cores I think IMO that the prices should be dropping soon. Those new cores make me mad because of AMD lowering the L2 cache. I see sales for those processors now dropping off....

 

[Falloutboy]

I think the chip to wait for is the 3100 sempron it should be a pretty nice chip and hopefully will be unlockable to a full blown newcastle (I have a feeling thats what its based on) also should overclock pretty well

 

[Nemesis2038]

AMD doesnt have to drop prices. As long as Intel doesnt have 64 bit cpu's AMD can still charge higher prices.

AMD still prices thier CPU's to compete with Intel 32 bit ones. But since the next Intel launch is going to a paper launch and production levels will take a few months to get into full swing as well as motherboard chips to support the Intel 775 chips AMD doesnt have to lower prices until Intel has chips in stock.

So maybe a little drop at the paper launch then a real drop sometime in August when AMD intro's their 90 micron chips.

 

[ichief]

Well, even though the Athlon 64 chips are 64-bit, they are still AMD's highest performance chips, and thus compete with Intel's P4s. I think that if Intel releases a 3.6 GHz chip and drops their prices next week, AMD will end up doing the same.

I'll have to keep an eye on newegg.com if they do typically post new prices a few days before the official announcements. I guess we'll see what happens.