Opterons 939 discontinue rumor = buying frenzy?

[bob4432]

i have read rumors that they will be discontinued and i have read responses from amd that they will be with us through 2006. if they are not going to be discontinued, why is there still such a buying frenzy?

 

[LumbergTech]

well..for example..i owned an athlon 64 3500+..i sold that and got an opteron 144 + a zalman 7700 ..ended up costing me about 40 dollars and now i just oced it for the first time and got 2.65 ghz...ended up costing me about 30 dollars...i felt it was worth it

 

[Greenman]

The hardcore clockers love them, and will pay a lot of money for them, so they all got baught up. A lot of them are trickeling on to ebay, where they sell for 50% to 100% over retail.

 

[themusgrat]

Actually, the head manager or whatever of the Opterons has stated that they are beginning the retail Opty phase-out, and this shows through everyone being out of stock.

 

[Greenman]

Mwave has just about all of them in stock right now, and the prices are down a bit.

 

[cw42]

didnt AMD just recently DENY the rumor of them being discountinued?

 

[the Chase]

Love the Opterons but that news won't get me in a frenzy. With M2(AM2) coming out soon I'd just as soon see how those do or get a 3800X2 for under $300 next year after AMD(and Intel) do some price cutting. Also the new budget chip "Manila" (yuck) is supposed to have 512mb L2 cache!

 

[themusgrat]

Maybe, but on the DFI street forums, someone has quotes of a top person saying that they want the retail Opterons off the market. Maybe they changed their minds though, these optys are probably generating quite a lot of money.
Here. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26642

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: cw42
didnt AMD just recently DENY the rumor of them being discountinued?

this is what i have read, thus the question as to the buying frenzy...

http://www.2cpu.com/story.php?id=3963

here is where i got the info that they will be around for some time

 

[DragonFire]

The buying frenzy was from the fact you could get a opty 144, 146, 148 for $300 or less (when they first came out) and overclock it to at least 2.6Ghz and with it's 1MB cache you end up with a FX-55. Some have manged to get 144's up to 3ghz on air. I paid $250 for my 148, it's running at 3050Mhz and I saved at least $700 from not buying an FX-57.

To be honest I don't know why they came out with a skt 939 opty to begin with since it would/does compete with there FX series. Amd realized this mistake and now everyone wants a cheap FX before AMD does say they aren't making more.

 

[vanvock]

I think in part it's also in hopes of getting a good stepping. The general idea is that earlier releases OC better.