P4 3.0 Glitch is a pricing problem??? -

[DynaOne]

If this is true - this is the biggest screwup I've ever heard (3.0 too low priced vs 3.06 P4).

P4 Recall due to accounting error

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

BS Alert!

 

[ChefJoe]

What's that ? Sounds plausible, but it's not something that hasn't happened before. Top notch P3s were selling for double what the low end but still higher clocked P4s for a long time, and still do. It's not like someone with a 800 FSB chip would always be able to run in a 533 FSB motherboard socket (well, not with official Intel support), so I really hope this isn't the actual reason for pulling it.

 

[pm]

Mike had been gaining some credibility with me recently but this sets him back to the time that he announced we'd taped out a chip that I was working on about a year before the real tape-out. This is about the silliest thing that he's written in a good long while.

As if pricing information isn't available to OEM's months in advance, as if the accountants are intimately aware of the nuances of pricing, it's affect on the market and the impact on the bottom line. Mike expects people to believe that this pricing went out the door, no one within Intel looked at it for months, and then said "Doh!" and with a slap to the forehead, "we'd better fake a recall. These prices are too low." Uh huh. Sure.

 

[DynaOne]

I tend to agree with you - but then why no comment on the pull back?

 

[jhites]

Horse Puckey

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: DynaOne
I tend to agree with you - but then why no comment on the pull back?

maybe they don't want to start hysteria over something that could turn out to be a non-problem?

 

[MadRat]

P4's at 800fsb were supposed to settle down to lower price levels than their 533fsb counterparts, BUT not launch that way.

As loosely run as Intel is becoming its no surprise this could happen.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: MadRat
P4's at 800fsb were supposed to settle down to lower price levels than their 533fsb counterparts, BUT not launch that way.

As loosely run as Intel is becoming its no surprise this could happen.

I'm not sure what else to say besides

Originally posted by: theinquirer
Every single reviewer of the combo here at the INQUIRER peered and peered to try and unearth the glitch but it was in the words of the sage, "nowhere found".

Oh, I see... If the fine people at theinquirer can't find it, then it MUST not exist.... As if they have a clue as to what it might be, or where to begin looking.

 

[sirfergy]

Will the lower speed 800FSB CPUs have HT?

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: sirfergy
Will the lower speed 800FSB CPUs have HT?

yes

 

[TronX]

What the heck was all that? lol

 

[MadRat]

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: MadRat
P4's at 800fsb were supposed to settle down to lower price levels than their 533fsb counterparts, BUT not launch that way.

As loosely run as Intel is becoming its no surprise this could happen.

I'm not sure what else to say besides

So, Wingz, does not every NEW Intel architecture eventually beat the previous in price as soon as they ramp to full production? The 533fsb chips at 2.4GHz were cheaper than the 400fsb chips not long after the 533fsb chips were introduced. I figure Intel will use $5-10 per processor to entice people into new 800fsb chips BECAUSE it also means more chipset sales for Intel. This is the way they've always done it in the past.

 

[MadRat]

I was wanting to hear why you gave me a "

", Wingznut.

 

[Double Trouble]

Of all the idiotic things I've read .... sheesh.

Anyone that believes that non-sense needs to seek help!

 

[DynaOne]

I just noticed that Dell has re-posted their Canterwood 875 based model 8300 Dimension - but with the 3.06 P4 and 533 front side bus setting. This may be a bad sign for the 3.0C.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: MadRat
I was wanting to hear why you gave me a "

", Wingznut.

Not wanting to put words in Wingz mouth, but a hint might be the "As loosely run as Intel is becoming its no surprise this could happen." comment from you.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: MadRat
I was wanting to hear why you gave me a "

", Wingznut.

Not wanting to put words in Wingz mouth, but a hint might be the "As loosely run as Intel is becoming its no surprise this could happen." comment from you.

It's pretty much just that the whole concept is so ridiculous, that I simply don't know how to rationally respond to it. I'm just not sure what I can add to what's already been said, to bring to light how silly it all is.

 

[DynaOne]

P4 3.0C shipping again

OK - maybe Dell's move is not a bad sign.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: DynaOne
P4 3.0C shipping again

OK - maybe Dell's move is not a bad sign.

Nice that they don't even mention how wrong they were in their original article. Great journalism there.