Athlon 64 PRICE DROPS @ ZZF!!!

[Bona Fide]

3500+ Venice : $230
3700+ SD : $280
4000+ SD : $380

Guess the price drops are starting to finally take effect

 

[Xyl3ne]

The Sempron 2600+ dropped $10 as well when I looked yesterday. Too bad the s754 chips aren't going down in price, they've actually increased since I build an a64 box for someone.

 

[carloboy]

4000+ for 380, id rather get a 3800 dual core and OC that mofo

 

[ncage]

Do the Socket 754 athy 64's use the same core as the socket 939?

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: ncage
Do the Socket 754 athy 64's use the same core as the socket 939?

no

 

[erector16]

Originally posted by: ncage
Do the Socket 754 athy 64's use the same core as the socket 939?

no they don't. the s754 parts use older cores based on the 0.13u process. most s939 parts have 90nm cores with added features such as SSE3 and such.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Is it worth the $50 more for the SD over the Venice?

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: ncage
Do the Socket 754 athy 64's use the same core as the socket 939?

depends, you can get skt 754 and 939 newcastles, but they were the 1st cores on skt 939 but are now relatively outdated and have been replaced.

 

[AstroCreep]

MF...
It figures, I bought a used San Diego for $265 a month ago.

 

[AstroCreep]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Is it worth the $50 more for the SD over the Venice?

Depends on how ya look at it.
The only difference in the two is that the SD has the 1MB cache versus the 512K. Other than that they have the same memory controller and same updates (SSE3).

Personally, for $50, I'd go with the SD.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: ncage
Do the Socket 754 athy 64's use the same core as the socket 939?

newer socket, newer fabrication process, newer chip.

 

[gi0rgi0]

Originally posted by: AstroCreep

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Is it worth the $50 more for the SD over the Venice?

Depends on how ya look at it.
The only difference in the two is that the SD has the 1MB cache versus the 512K. Other than that they have the same memory controller and same updates (SSE3).

Personally, for $50, I'd go with the SD.

I read in reviews that the 1mb cache over 512 really doesnt really help any. Maybe in
certain applications. But not in games.

 

[chinkgai]

3500+ is 234 shipped from monarch for all us CA residents that want to save on tax

 

[eplebnista]

Thanks for the heads up! :thumbsup:

 

[BigCoolJesus]

The 3200+Venice isnt going to drop, is it???

 

[classy]

Wow 278 for a 3700+. That has got to be in the running for best bang for the buck. Wow the X2 is really nice, but I, like probably 80% of the people will never truly utilize the benefits of a dual core. I still want one, but that 3700 price is tempting.

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: classy
Wow 278 for a 3700+. That has got to be in the running for best bang for the buck. Wow the X2 is really nice, but I, like probably 80% of the people will never truly utilize the benefits of a dual core. I still want one, but that 3700 price is tempting.

i bet more than 80% percent of people who own exotic super fast sports cars dont need all that horsepower, but like to have it anyways ^^

 

[yourdeardaniel]

i want athlon 64 x2 3800 dual core

 

[RideFree]

Ed over @ Overclockers has some excellent comments on several of the ??s posed by several in this thread. . .

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: classy
Wow 278 for a 3700+. That has got to be in the running for best bang for the buck. Wow the X2 is really nice, but I, like probably 80% of the people will never truly utilize the benefits of a dual core. I still want one, but that 3700 price is tempting.

yeah, if you don't know how to use a computer or are lame with what you use it for (as in you only need processing power for games as the only thing else you do is browse / chat / words docs...)

If you do anything such as encode video / music, DC, real work...and then you can game at the same time...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: RideFree
Ed over @ Overclockers has some excellent comments on several of the ??s posed by several in this thread. . .

What you really need to ask yourself before buying a dual-core is, "How often do I or could I do more than one big thing at the same time?"

If the answer is "almost never," then this probably won't be for you for a couple years. If, on the other hand, you often stop doing other things just to let the machine do one big task, this annoys you, and you're willing to pay to make that stop, well, this is for you.

That's not entirely true. I believe the reason people haven't don't more than one big thing at once so far is because they haven't been able to. Even P4's with HT don't let you do two big things at once becuase logical processors aren't real, they simply can't cut it unless its a small task. Its nice to run something on the physical core and then use the logical to help you get out of jam, but its not the same as being able to do multiple things at once.

I'm sure just about everyone on these forums have experienced situations where they've had their computer doing something that they basically had to let sit and run while they could maybe browse the internet or chat with friends. They might not realize they could have been doing someting else if they had a 2xCPU sysetm (which cost too much to justify in comparison to dualcore.

People don't realize they "need" dualcore" until they had it and used it. I've used the example before - humans didn't need fire to cook their food until we discovered that it ws better and soon enough we couldn't live without it, undercooked food could be deadly whereas before we could easily eat it raw like animals do.

 

[RideFree]

You have a good point, however, I would not compare 1x vs. 2x to cooked vs. raw food.
Marriage vs. Ménage à Trois, yes.
Fire vs. death from salmonella, no. :frown::frown::frown: