What happened to all the Tahoma 4800+ CPUs?

[Skinjob]

I've been thinking about upgrading my 3500+ to a Tahoma 4800+ to try and squeeze another year or two out my socket 939 board.

So I started checking out prices a couple weeks ago and Newegg had them from around $260-270, which seemed pretty good. But they quickly went up about $10 a week until they hit $300 and now they seem to be gone. Newegg and ZZF are now both out of stock.

I knew AMD wouldn't be making anymore 939s after the end of the year, but I figured that meant Q1 2007 before they became scarce.

Anyone know what's up with the supply? Is that it for the Tahoma 4800+ or will there be more in the pipe before the end of the year?

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

excuse my ignorance, but what is a Tahoma? is it any special? Never heard of them.

 

[Aluvus]

Do you mean Toledo? Toledo has twice as much cache, and is therefore markedly more expensive to produce than Manchester. AMD is in a belt-tightening mood, and has cut Toledos out of its production.

 

[HopJokey]

Originally posted by: BlingBlingArsch
excuse my ignorance, but what is a Tahoma? is it any special? Never heard of them.

Maybe he means the Toledo core based 4800+ chips (4800+ X2 2x1MB L2 skt939)?

 

[myocardia]

AMD hasn't been making any 1MB cache chips, except Opterons, for some time now. Their supply has started to dry up, especially on the 4800, which they produced the least amount of, except for the FX-60.

 

[Skinjob]

Sorry, I meant Toledo of course. Don't know where the hell I got Tahoma from.

So basically I'm screwed as far as a 939 4800+ goes? Is it actually confirmed that there will be no more production at all?

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: Skinjob
Sorry, I meant Toledo of course. Don't know where the hell I got Tahoma from.

So basically I'm screwed as far as a 939 4800+ goes? Is it actually confirmed that there will be no more production at all?

Essentially, they stopped makign the 1MB cache chips for both AM2 and S939, since the profit is higher on the 512MB chips. You could opt for a S939 Opteron 180, as its identical to a 4800+, or just get a 4600+ and get slight performance drops due to lower cache (affects a few things, but no more than 8-10% in the worst cases)

FYI Denmark = Toledo, there is no difference whatsoever between the chips. Heck my opteron 170 claimed to be a denmark, and CPU-Z calls it a toledo.

 

[yuchai]

I'm in the same boat. I was going to pull the trigger on the 4800+ OEM when it was $250 but while checking out they went OOS! I ended up picking up a 4600+

 

[Skinjob]

Hold on a sec - I just checked Newegg and they have added "ETA: 2006-11-06 11:18:00" to the Toledo 4800+ product description. Not sure how they know it's going to show up at 11:18, but it's good news anyway. So I guess there was at least one more production run. Probably the last?

 

[Skinjob]

Good to know about the Denmark. I hadn't really considered an Opteron because of the price. Newegg has em for $300, which is $40-50 more than I really want to spend, but at least it's an option.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: Skinjob
Sorry, I meant Toledo of course. Don't know where the hell I got Tahoma from.

So basically I'm screwed as far as a 939 4800+ goes? Is it actually confirmed that there will be no more production at all?

I seem to remember Tahoma being tossed around as the codename for an AMD mobile part, but I can't find anything to back that up. It just rings a bell.

Originally posted by: Skinjob
Hold on a sec - I just checked Newegg and they have added "ETA: 2006-11-06 11:18:00" to the Toledo 4800+ product description. Not sure how they know it's going to show up at 11:18, but it's good news anyway. So I guess there was at least one more production run. Probably the last?

More likely they found a warehouse that had new old stock still on hand.