Is the AMD 4X4 system out yet?

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Cabville

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Originally posted by: coldpower27

Then you weren't really looking into things and making assumptions, your problem, you should verify things next time, many retailers have been selling them as Single units, but nevertheless, it remains an expensive options as 4 Cores still require you to have $600+.

Let's see the worse case scenario here:

$950 for the CPU, $200 for the motherboard, and $150 for the Thermal electric Cooler.

This combination is far superior though to the Quad FX system as it uses thermal electric cooling, not that it needs it anyway, as a Single QX6700 doesn't draw anywhere close to the power draw of 2 FX-70 processors. Since your system doesn't have such advanced cooling we need to normalize the comparison.

The Q6600 can be had for $835 USD, a 680I motherboard for $200, and since your not including good cooling for the FX processors, this system can run on a stock heatsink.

So your looking at comparing a $980 to $1035 system, expensive for what you get though on the AMD side, and things are going to go south quickly soon. Funny you should mention the price drops, because the comparision will strongly favor Intel after them and they are not "months" from now :D

Later this month on April 22nd the comparison will be so.

$530USD for the Q6600, so the price drops down to an overall $730, while you can by then get an FX-72 based system for $980 or so.

By the time Barcelona is released, it is extremely unlikely that it will become the most affordable solution, as your still stuck using the Athlon FX brand, which are expensive processors, and if Barcelona is superior to what Intel's got then they will be priced accordingly which is expensive. There will be nothing stopping AMD from charging $999US per processor or $2K per set of 2.

AMD announced that these are going to be sold in pairs, that is not an assumption. Several reviews have stated the same thing including one on this very site. Apparently they had a change of heart, but that change was not announced. The retailers I have been dealing with do not specify that this is a single processor. Nor does AMD's product page for the processor. All of which has been addressed previously in this very thread.

You spend three paragraphs here addressing a motherboard/CPU/heat sink combo that I have already made crystal clear I had absolutely nothing to do with except to stick a price tag on it in response to the original poster. You may wish to direct your comments concerning said combination towards him as it is of no concern to me.

4x4 FX is not supposed to be an affordable platform. It's supposed to be a high end platform. Providing Barcelona lives up to expectations, it will allow an 8 core solution on the 4x4 platform which will make it the most powerful solution available at that point. So arguing that is not going to be the most affordable alternative at that point makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's not supposed the most affordable alternative.

And you are lecturing me about "making assumptions" and" verifying things"? This is the second consecutive post where you have brought up issues that have already been addressed earlier in this very thread.