Stealth AMD price cut?

[v8envy]

Proof: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819103273

That pricing makes it highly competitive with the Q6600 at a stock clock, raw performance level. The question in my mind: is this a one-time deal to the egg to blow out inventory, or will we be seeing some dirt cheap Phenoms soon? Is AMD anticipating Intel slashing prices on 65nm parts?

It's a good time to be in the market for a quad...

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

I posted that deal a while back. AMD made the choice to slash prices to be more competitve.

 

[Markfw]

Since you need a good motherboard for that 140 watt cpu (or you will kill it), for only $10 less than the q6600, it doesn't seem like such a deal to me....

 

[o1die]

Fry's had the 8450 tri core for only $110 with ecs board last week; that's a deal.

 

[error8]

If only these would have hit 3.5 ghz constantly, then yes, this could have been a great deal.

 

[Idontcare]

Pretty amazing to think you can get top-of-the-line K10 processor for <$200. That's a mere $45 per core! I remember paying $450 per core for 800MHz K7.

So that's 1/10 the price for a processing core that is probably running 4-5x faster in my apps of interest when I bought those K7's.

Makes you wonder what they will be selling in 2017...$5 per core computers where any given core itself will be 5x faster than today's best cores? Amazing.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Pretty amazing to think you can get top-of-the-line K10 processor for <$200. That's a mere $45 per core! I remember paying $450 per core for 800MHz K7.

So that's 1/10 the price for a processing core that is probably running 4-5x faster in my apps of interest when I bought those K7's.

Makes you wonder what they will be selling in 2017...$5 per core computers where any given core itself will be 5x faster than today's best cores? Amazing.

In 2017 we'll probably be having discussions along the lines of chemistry - which food gives the best performance for our bacterium seeded processor! :laugh:

 

[v8envy]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Pretty amazing to think you can get top-of-the-line K10 processor for <$200. That's a mere $45 per core! I remember paying $450 per core for 800MHz K7.

So that's 1/10 the price for a processing core that is probably running 4-5x faster in my apps of interest when I bought those K7's.

Makes you wonder what they will be selling in 2017...$5 per core computers where any given core itself will be 5x faster than today's best cores? Amazing.

I'm positive my 850 mhz slot-A athlon was nowhere near $450 in 2000 (or was that 1999?). But with Larabee on the way that's not a bad prediction -- I wouldn't be shocked to see GPU cores running x86, running it very quickly, and selling at the $5/core in the next 9 years or so.

Anyhoo, not a hot deals thread. Just an observation that there's been a silent $60 haircut to AMD's flagship dekstop product and a request for prognosticating re: what that means to the rest of the quad core lineup. I'm almost warming up to the idea of using a 9850 BE (125w, comes with a heatsink) for something. Might jump on it if it hits $150 or so any time soon.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I paid $235 for my 9850 back around April. The 9950 for $180 is a very good price for a plenty capable processor. Also, some of the 780G boards are starting to come with the new SB700 southbridge and support 125+ watt CPU's for ~$100. Not much money for a lot of horsepower.

 

[Finalnight]

I thought they did the price cut to clear out the old 140 watt inventory because the updated 125 watt part is coming out.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: v8envy
I'm positive my 850 mhz slot-A athlon was nowhere near $450 in 2000 (or was that 1999?). But with Larabee on the way that's not a bad prediction -- I wouldn't be shocked to see GPU cores running x86, running it very quickly, and selling at the $5/core in the next 9 years or so.

How quickly we forget the AMD that wasn't the pariah underdog:

August 9, 1999: The 650MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $849

October 4, 1999: The 700MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $849 each in 1,000 unit quantities.

November 29, 1999: The 750MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $799 in 1,000 unit quantities.

Jan. 6, 2000: The 800MHz AMD Athlon processor is immediately available and priced at $849 in 1,000 unit quantities.

February 11, 2000: The 850MHz AMD Athlon? processor is priced at $849 in 1,000 unit quantities.

March 6, 2000: 1GHz AMD Athlon processors priced at $1,299, 950MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $999, and 900MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $899 in 1,000 unit quantities

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
How quickly we forget the AMD that wasn't the pariah underdog:

August 9, 1999: The 650MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $849

October 4, 1999: The 700MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $849 each in 1,000 unit quantities.

November 29, 1999: The 750MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $799 in 1,000 unit quantities.

Jan. 6, 2000: The 800MHz AMD Athlon processor is immediately available and priced at $849 in 1,000 unit quantities.

February 11, 2000: The 850MHz AMD Athlon? processor is priced at $849 in 1,000 unit quantities.

March 6, 2000: 1GHz AMD Athlon processors priced at $1,299, 950MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $999, and 900MHz AMD Athlon processor is priced at $899 in 1,000 unit quantities

Yeah, they were all fairly expensive back then. The 250nm process wasn't all that efficient.:laugh: Of course, the x2 4800 was a $900 part when it debuted, and that was on a 90nm process.:shocked: