Slashed 265 prices?

[TrevorRC]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29195

Wow?

If that brings the 265 PIB down to 341.....

I might consider picking up a dual CPU board o_o;;

The 265 currently costs about $700 and that price is set to cascade down to $341. The 270 costs $864 as we speak, and in mid Feb the price is likely to tumble to $476.

Then the 275, which costs over a gigahertz of money at $1,063, will become a $700 part. Lastly, but far from leastly, the 280 will fall from its high $1,300 podium to $865.

--Lets not forget overclocking these beasties.

 

[TSS]

that much? makes you wonder what AMD is planning to release soon...

 

[Lord Banshee]

HOLY CRAP BATMAN!!!

I hope that is true for AMD... Intel is getting raped in the server/workstation market and this will just top the cake.

 

[Duvie]

Looks like they are making room fo rsome new chips...Maybe just 285's and 290's, though they maybe the new socket chips with DDR2...AMD seems to upgrade their server line first....

Dont expect 65nm yet or quad core chips until closer to 07....

 

[TrevorRC]

Intel still holds dominance, at least for now--it'll be interesting watching AMD take it from them piecemeal.

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: TSS
that much? makes you wonder what AMD is planning to release soon...

 

[Markfw]

I may have to get a couple to upgrade my 248 dinosaur's !

 

[ctbrown]

Dumb question. Aside from price, what's the difference between the 100 and 200 series? A quick look at the specs at Newegg shows both 165 and 265 have same cache and clock frequency.

 

[Mloot]

The 165's can only be used in single-socket motherboards, which gives you a dual-core system. 265's can be used in dual-socket boards, so that you can have a quad-core system.

 

[Furen]

First off, the newest 100 series CPUs are socket 939 (older ones are socket 940) while all 200 and 800 series CPUs are socket 940. Socket 940 requires registered ram which is slightl slower than non-registered. The 200 series also has a coherent HT link to conect to another CPU, so two can be used in tandem. The 100 series is for use in uniprocessor systems only and will not work in pairs.

 

[davegraham]

guys, nothing new is really coming.

the 285 will be released in March after February's introduction of the 885. yes, prices are coming down and i've advised every person interested in 2p/4core systems to hold off...trust me, it'll be worth it.

dave

 

[d3lt4]

Go AMD. That will be awesome.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

W00T!!!!!!! That could make a cool system.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: TrevorRC
Intel still holds dominance, at least for now--it'll be interesting watching AMD take it from them piecemeal.

Yeah, AMD's taking marketshare a "byte" at a time. They are officially up to over 20% of the OVERALL market, which is pretty impressive considering that's counting the mobile and workstation/small server segments where Intel's more dominating sales-wise. For desktop systems sold at retail, AMD has already hit 50% marketshare. Of course that's not counting Dell.

Still, AMD's doing fairly well. Just getting people to shell out $155+ (PIB pricing) for a CPU and consider it a bargain is giving them a lot better ASP than back in the Athlon XP days where nobody was willing to pay over $60 for a "B" Tbred or $85 for a Barton. Then again, those socket 754 Semprons under $100 are great bargains... but many enthusiasts are opting to go for the more expensive chip to get dual channel.

 

[themusgrat]

This is great. Does anybody know of a dual socket 2xx series mobo that can OC? I was looking at this, but no OC, I fear. this

 

[TrevorRC]

Originally posted by: davegraham
guys, nothing new is really coming.

the 285 will be released in March after February's introduction of the 885. yes, prices are coming down and i've advised every person interested in 2p/4core systems to hold off...trust me, it'll be worth it.

dave

AM2 Going to be THAT good?


Edit: Unless you're suggesting quad cores?

 

[Socrilles]

I have been considering a 2 processor 4 core system, could you let me know what kind of prices to expect Dave?

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: themusgrat
This is great. Does anybody know of a dual socket 2xx series mobo that can OC? I was looking at this, but no OC, I fear. this

The asus board is the only one I've seen that can run NUMA as well as OC fairly well. The MSI boards only have one bank of memory, so they can't run NUMA. Both fit in "large" ATX cases.

 

[Hard Ball]

Originally posted by: themusgrat
This is great. Does anybody know of a dual socket 2xx series mobo that can OC? I was looking at this, but no OC, I fear. this

You can OC through clockgen or other software on a number of boards, including the offerings from Asus and Supermicro; some have gotten their H8DCE and K8N-DL to get Opteron 265s to go to 2.4 or beyond by clockgen; 100% stable.

But OC in BIOS is spotty at best, even on the most OC friendly Dual opteron boards. Don't count on being able to OC in BIOS more than 5%. Some of the options are simply not there, such as changing core multipliers, or raising the vcore more than 0.05 .