Whats going to happen to s939 X2 pricing and availability when AM2 parts come out?

[PingSpike]

Dual core processors are pretty pricey and their performance benefits so far seemed to have been mostly bark and not a lot of bite from what I've seen. Still, it seems we may just start to see them being better utilized soon.

I've been torn on whether to jump to AM2, and I'm leaning against it. The ram tech is still pretty new, I'm afraid I'll buy 2gb of what amounts to pc2700 and have to buy new faster ram later on. DDR is pretty much as mature as its going to get, works just as well for AMD it appears and is cheap...for now. The motherboards won't be mature for awhile, there will probably be some minor bugs at first...and considering the small boost in performance it doesn't seem worth jumping through those potential hoops. Plus there's some talk AM2 is going to be a socket 754 situation again.

Conroe is coming out eventually and its pricing sounds almost to good to be true...but I'll still be in the same ram situation and I'm not even sure if I need that much performance anyway.

Whats going to happen to s939 dual cores though? Are their prices going to go down as the market moves to AM2 and conroe? Or are they cutting production, driving the price up? Whats going to happen with those 6 months to 1 year from now?

I'm thinking of grabbing 2x1gb of DDR, and then 6 months to a year from now grabbing the uli epox board thats coming out and a X2 for socket 939 and just sitting on that for awhile.

 

[PingSpike]

No one has any opinions, comments on this?

 

[nJett]

this is a damn good question I've been wondering about. I'm really hoping I can upgrade to a dual-core 939 a year or so from now and don't want to pay inflated prices (like AthlonXPs!)

 

[SynthDude2001]

I have no clue what will happen with the retail market, but if nothing else you should be able to find pretty decent deals on used X2's from people who are upgrading to the latest and greatest...

 

[PingSpike]

I generally don't like to purchase used parts though, plus the used market is usually a function of the new market. (i.e. if prices go up on new s939 X2s then used ones will go up as well)

Is there some sort of AMD roadmap that gives any indicators on what they plan to do with production?

 

[Snerp]

I'm guessing that the X2's will be worth the money you spend on them now. I just bought a 4400+ and I've got it on water running at 2.64 GHz. I have had no problems with it and everything is rock solid. I also just bought a BIX III which will bring my temps down and give me faster speeds. At $400 (prob cheaper now) that kind of performance is great. A FX-60 runs $1000 and I'm past those stock speeds.

Anyways my whole point is that the X2 is a solid buy for the time and you for sure know that now. All you can do is make a decision on the current information. There will always be something bigger and better out there 2 weeks after you dropped a ton of cash on something

 

[TrevorRC]

They'll probably be more expensive. My money is on AMD raising the prices on X2s/Opty's (939) to edge people into buying AM2.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Snerp
I'm guessing that the X2's will be worth the money you spend on them now. I just bought a 4400+ and I've got it on water running at 2.64 GHz. I have had no problems with it and everything is rock solid. I also just bought a BIX III which will bring my temps down and give me faster speeds. At $400 (prob cheaper now) that kind of performance is great. A FX-60 runs $1000 and I'm past those stock speeds.

Anyways my whole point is that the X2 is a solid buy for the time and you for sure know that now. All you can do is make a decision on the current information. There will always be something bigger and better out there 2 weeks after you dropped a ton of cash on something

Ain't that the truth?

Yeah, there's a good chance AMD will raise the prices on X2s to push towards AM2...but won't conroe be putting some pressure there as well?

What are people's opinions regarding buying DDR2 now? Is its speed going to shoot up to DDR2-1200 or something making DDR2-800 a bad purchase?

 

[Alaa]

they will probably raise prices or keep them constant..like the GPU industry..i just hope they just release the current 939 cpus with a lower cost on AM2