Strange AMD prices at windrivers.

[broadwayblue]

Anyone know why the 1ghz athlon jumped like $60 in price a few days ago? It's still listed as more expensive than the 1.2 and 1.1 chips...what's up with that?

 

[teckmaster]

The original athlon has been rising in price since they went to the thunderbird. The slot chip didn't last long so they are selling whats left of their stock, but if you have an Athlon and you burn it up and need a new one, you really pay for it. The thunderbird is back to the socket chip which seems to work better.

 

[broadwayblue]

i agree with you, but it's the Thunderbird 1ghz that's more expensive than the Thunderbird 1.2 and 1.2. That doesn't make sense to me.

 

[urameatball]

it's because people like having more 0's with their CPUs.
1000 has one more zero than 1200

DUH...

okay, I dunno what I'm talking aboOt

 

[stonerdave]

sorry, i don't follow cpu's much anymore, are you referring to the slot A Athlon that went up in price? this could be due to the rarity of these pieces as amd moved shifted production to the flipchip design to decrease costs ($$$ fabs).

when people with older slot a boards realized this, they picked them up. same thing happened with the 900/100 P3 flipchip. i'm assuming you can't run a new flipchip athlon on an older slot a board with a slocket. but i could be wrong, like i said i've kinda lost interest with intel and amd.

anyone know?