AM2 Thread

[tarrcm]

Sure hope that mobo arrives soon! I'm anxious to see some results.

[fvbounty]

Keep us informed and I have posted to keep up to date....Thnaks Eldonko for your info....

[Eldonko]

No mb yet, prob be early this week tho, tracking says its in Canada for 4 days now.

Check these bad boys out, stock DDR1000

[Blue078]

Whats the stock volts on that pair? Sorry your haveing to waite so long for a board, that has got to suck

[Eldonko]

Hey Blue, nice to see you around Stock is 2.2v and the mem should scale up to ~2.5v.

[tarrcm]

Nice Eldonko! What's the latency on those sticks?
EDIT: never mind...I saw it in the pics!!!

[Blue078]

Might be some nice sticks. Will she how they do for you.

[Eldonko]

Spreaders are supposed to be red too lol, Brian put the black ones on em by accident. Kunaak @ xs has a set too, his got to 570Mhz but that is also on Intel, no idea what to expect w/ AM2. Pretty dam good for a 2 gig set nonetheless!



I'm a little worried about the IHS of the 5000+. AMD did a crap job of making it flat so a HSF may not make good contact. All I have for cooling is a cheap heatsinc I have lying around, none of my waterblocks will fit. =/ Oh well, I'll lap it if I gotta.

[Blue078]

Originally Posted by Eldonko

I'm a little worried about the IHS of the 5000+. AMD did a crap job of making it flat so a HSF may not make good contact. All I have for cooling is a cheap heatsinc I have lying around, none of my waterblocks will fit. =/ Oh well, I'll lap it if I gotta.

Intel ant doing any better, my 920 had a crown so bad that the heat sink would rock when pushed on any side Had to take a file to it first then lapp.

How much are those sticks going to reatail for ?

[Eldonko]

They are for sale now, you dont want to know how much.. Link

I think I may pick one of the AM2 waterblocks from DD, cheaper than most decent air HSFs.

[Blue078]

Nice block

I'm kinda short on $$ right now so I cant afford AM2 and conroe. So I'll just have to keep up with AM2 through you guys I know you'll make a good showing with AM2

[tarrcm]

Originally Posted by Eldonko

They are for sale now, you dont want to know how much..

YIKES!!! You weren't kiddin!

[Eldonko]

From Inquirer:

CHIP FIRM AMD has kicked into price cuts today by slashing prices on 939 and AM2 sockets.

Distributor prices seen by the INQ show that the Athlon 64 3000 will cost $89, the 3200 $99, the 3500 $109, and the 3800 $139. In the last case, that's a 50 per cent drop.

All socket and AM2 sockets are rebated, we understand from sources close to AMD Asia.

[Protoplasm72]

[Eldonko]

AMD to launch pricing campaign to counter Intel

Monica Chen, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DigiTimes.com [Monday 12 June 2006]

AMD will launch a pricing campaign later this month, covering the full range of its product line, in head-to-head rivalry with Intel, which is expected to lower the prices for its processors in July, according to sources with motherboard makers.

After actively talking to motherboard makers in search of ways to counter Intel's price cuts, AMD has come up with a new pricing solution, despite tight production capacity and possible erosion of its profits, the sources said.

The sources indicated that AMD will cut the prices for four models in its Athlon 64 single-core CPU series by 20-30% in mid June. On July 24, AMD will reduce the prices for its Athlon 64x2 dual-core CPUs by 25-50%, and its low-end single-core Sempron series will see a 10-15% cut in prices, according to the sources.

Intel is expected to offer significant price reductions for its Celeron, Pentium 4 and Pentium D series when it launches its desktop Core2 Duo (Conroe) processors next month. DigiTimes reported these price cuts on May 26.

The sources pointed out that as AMD's K8L series, a quad-core upgrade of its K8 architecture, will not be available until 2007, its AM2 series would be caught between the higher-performance Conroe and the lower-priced Pentium D if AMD did not adopt a new pricing strategy. AMD's Sempron would also have problems competing with Intel's Celeron.

AMD will almost halve the prices for its Athlon 64x32 3800+ to US$152-161, compared to the US$163 that Intel plans for its Pentium D 945, the sources said, citing one example in AMD's pricing plan.

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