AMD Cuts Desktop CPU Prices

[HardOCP News]

DigiTimes has posted the complete list of new desktop CPU prices following the recent price cut from AMD. Some prices have been slashed by as much as two hundred dollars.

AMD has published price cuts for its desktop processor range with prices falling up to US$200 for high-end Athlon 64 FX-70 series processors. Several products have also been discontinued including the socket AM2-based Athlon 64 FX-64, and the socket 745-based Sempron 3400+ and 3000+. Under the newly published list, socket 745 has been phased-out, while only three socket 939 units remain suggesting that this architecture will also be discontinued soon.

 

[Hotdog453]

Just out of mild curiosity, I looked up prices just now on Newegg:

6000+=239$ (Backordered)

5600+=199$ (Backordered)

and finally

3600+ (65nm, not 90nm)=$89 (Backordered)

The only price I had followed recently was the 3600+... and those prices have yet to change. The 6000+ and 5600+ look to be in line with the new scheme, but Newegg is "generally" a bit under the price lists.

 

[OkToBeR[hocp]]

This is great news any way you look at it. I was skeptical when I first bought my socket AM2 and have been happy with the choice ever since. The phasing out was bound to happen eventually, seeing that the 939 and 745 platforms have been around for years.

I'll be keeping an eye out at the online retails and deal sites for a bargain upgrade from my 3800+ AM2.

 

[valve1138]

It's socket 754 not 745.

 

[ir0nw0lf]

Just out of mild curiosity, I looked up prices just now on Newegg:

and finally

3600+ (65nm, not 90nm)=$89 (Backordered)

The only price I had followed recently was the 3600+... and those prices have yet to change. The 6000+ and 5600+ look to be in line with the new scheme, but Newegg is "generally" a bit under the price lists.

Reading the fine print FTW! The fine print over at the link:

*Pricing for 1000-unit tray quantities

Tray = OEM
OEM != retail box

Tray pricing for the X2 3600+ on that list is $73, Newegg shows $65...

 

[malingjc]

It's socket 754 not 745.

“Several products have also been discontinued including the socket AM2-based Athlon 64 FX-64, and the socket 745-based Sempron 3400+ and 3000+. Under the newly published list, socket 745 has been phased-out, while only three socket 939 units remain suggesting that this architecture will also be discontinued soon.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m a little scared that a company called “DigiTimes” doesn’t know how many pins are on an Athlon64/Sempron.

 

[srangara]

Transposing a 4 and a 5 is hardly worthy of fear. It's not like DigiTimes is building motherboards.

 

[Hotdog453]

Tray = OEM
OEM != retail box

Tray pricing for the X2 3600+ on that list is $73, Newegg shows $65...
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Yes, you're 100% right. However, Newegg hasn't changed their prices in this case. So, looking back, the 3600+ was SUPPOSED to be 102$ before this change, from AMD's tray prices, right? Well, they haven't been 102$, OEM or retail in a long time. Probably at least 2-3 weeks now.

So if they were selling for $89, retail, when the tray price was 102, they should be falling even more; if the tray price is now 73$, following what Newegg's pricing has been like in the past, I was expecting ~60ish, retail.

For example, Mwave has the 3600+, retail (heatsink) down to 69$ already: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA23661&RSKU=BA23661

So yes, Newegg's price is still good, I was mostly commenting on the fact that they haven't changed their prices yet, in accordance with the new tray prices.

 

[Nemesis999]

“Several products have also been discontinued including the socket AM2-based Athlon 64 FX-64, and the socket 745-based Sempron 3400+ and 3000+. Under the newly published list, socket 745 has been phased-out, while only three socket 939 units remain suggesting that this architecture will also be discontinued soon.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m a little scared that a company called “DigiTimes” doesn’t know how many pins are on an Athlon64/Sempron.

I hardly think a typo constitutes a lack of knowledge.

 

[Hotdog453]

And since I can't edit front page posts, another comment to my above post: The Mwave I linked to, sadly, is 90nm, but still a deal @ 69.00$. Mwave apparently doesn't carry the 65nm model, at least I'm too lazy to find it.

 

[Nemesis999]

This is great news any way you look at it.

It is and it isn't.

On one hand... Low prices! WOOT!

On the other, we want AMD to continue to provide serious competition to Intel, otherwise we end up with Intel abusing their monopoly again. AMD losing money isn't a good thing!

 

[malingjc]

I hardly think a typo constitutes a lack of knowledge.

A typo would be screwing it up once. Twice in one paragraph just crosses into "who are these people?"

Regardless good news for new socket owners, but I'm not one of them, I have both 754 and 939, but not AM2.

 

[Jeff Foley]

Regardless good news for new socket owners, but I'm not one of them, I have both 754 and 939, but not AM2.

Agreed. And I'm also in the 754 and 939 boat though so whoopie for me.

 

[Rax]

Quick compare of A64 X2 6000 with C2D still shows a better bang for the buck with the Intel chip. AMD needs to get their pricing in-line with the chips' performance relative to Intels to be competitive.

 

[Manny Calavera]

Quick compare of A64 X2 6000 with C2D still shows a better bang for the buck with the Intel chip. AMD needs to get their pricing in-line with the chips' performance relative to Intels to be competitive.

Too true,as low as these 'new' prices are,they are still not low enough,as they are not inline with true performance.Hector needs to get out the knife again,and carve into
that cow deeper,and more agressively.

I wonder who will lend them that 1 billion,so they can continue to have daily operating cash between now and the end of the year ? Given that they have drawn as much as they can from that Euro loan group that they hit up a few years.

 

[Mohonri]

Too true,as low as these 'new' prices are,they are still not low enough,as they are not inline with true performance.Hector needs to get out the knife again,and carve into that cow deeper,and more agressively.

Intel still owns the CPU crown, but it seems to me that AMD rules the low end. The cheapest C2D (E4300) runs about $165, which (with the new pricing) now equates to an X2 5000 or so. And since the X2 5000 appears to consistently outperform the E4300, it would be the better buy.

In other words, with these price cuts, AMD have taken back the price/performance crown. Of course, that does not take into account overclocking, but it also does not take into account that AMD have a whole range of great dual-core CPUs where Intel doesn't.