Question for those who visit the FS/FT forum

[Corsairpro]

Why do AMD 1.4GHz chips sell for $45 and Intel 600MHz chips sell for $50-60?

Is the demand for 600MHz chips in relation to the supply that high!??!!?

 

[datalink7]

People always post a high price, and then a lot of times it gets negotiated down. They don't always post the final price in their post, so it might be much lower than the $50-60 range.

 

[agnitrate]

AMD 1.4 meaning some version of Athlon XP? IIRC, they don't make straight 1.4s. I think 1.4 is maybe XP 1500 or 1600?

Anyways, it's because AMD still made the XPs relatively recently so it's not too expensive for them to continue making them when it's on the same process as the current ones. P3s are older and as far as I know, they don't even make 600 Mhz chips anymore so there is nothing keeping the pricing down.

Simply supply and demand.

-silver

 

[psteng19]

AMD 1.4's are the last and fastest of the T-Bird's.

P3 600's I'm assuming is slot 1.
Some have 512K L2 cache.
Slot 1's are just more rare.

Those are the reasons.

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[Zugzwang152]

has nothing to do with performance, obviously, because the tbird whips that pentium, its just the fact that tbirds were produced long after, the 600mhz intel chips stopped, and the tbird was the biggest success of AMD's line, so there was greater demand and therefore more chips made.

 

[Viper GTS]

You're most likely looking at Slot 1 P3 600's, the fastest of the 512K Katmai P3's.

The demand exists because there are lots of SMP servers out there based on Slot 1 boards. Many server applications are more cache dependant than MHz, so going to a faster Coppermine P3 would actually be a decrease in performance.

600 MHz represents the fastest CPU available for their existing hardware, & a drop-in upgrade that requires little down time.

Viper GTS

 

[RGN]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
You're most likely looking at Slot 1 P3 600's, the fastest of the 512K Katmai P3's.

The demand exists because there are lots of SMP servers out there based on Slot 1 boards. Many server applications are more cache dependant than MHz, so going to a faster Coppermine P3 would actually be a decrease in performance.

600 MHz represents the fastest CPU available for their existing hardware, & a drop-in upgrade that requires little down time.

Viper GTS

Yeah, but $50-60 is a low price for those...