Price of Athlon 64

[tontod]

When is the price of the Athlon 64 supposed to drop? The 3200+ has been $404 on newegg for a while now. I'm guessing there wont be much change until early next year?

 

[SickBeast]

It'll only get cheaper once the 3400+ and faster chips come out. Some are saying that will happen towards the new year.

 

[tontod]

Do you mean the 64 3400+ ? I wonder how high the XP will go.

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: tontod
Do you mean the 64 3400+ ? I wonder how high the XP will go.

I think XP is staying just where it is. There's no reason for AMD to market two chips at the same clock speed. It would just hurt their AMD64 sales.

But then again maybe they will keep going up in rating when they switch the Athlon XPs over to socket 754.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Swanny

Originally posted by: tontod
Do you mean the 64 3400+ ? I wonder how high the XP will go.

I think XP is staying just where it is. There's no reason for AMD to market two chips at the same clock speed. It would just hurt their AMD64 sales.

But then again maybe they will keep going up in rating when they switch the Athlon XPs over to socket 754.

The thing is, there is a HUGE installed base of Socket-A motherboards right now. People are going to want to upgrade down the line, and AMD has said that it will keep the XP line going so long as there is demand for it. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 0.09 micron XP running upwards of 3800+. Just my opinion tho, and I don't have much to base it from.

Sometime in the new year the Athlon64 mainstream part will apparently go dual-channel, which will make it MUCH more attractive than the vanilla Athlon XP, especially if prices drop to the sub-150 dollar level. Once Windows 64 is released along with some apps it will make it even more attractive to move to the 64-bit platform.