Up to 50% Price Cuts by AMD

[Blackima]

The day after Conroe ships (ie 24th july) AMD are planning to slash their prices considerably:

According to memos recently obtained by DailyTech, AMD will drastically cut prices on its desktop processors after the July 23rd release of Intel’s Core 2 Duo Conroe processors. The memos that DailyTech has secured are between AMD and Japanese system manufacturers and indicate the following price cuts will become effective July 24th, 2006:

* AMD Athlon 64 price cuts will receive price cut up to 30%

* AMD Athlon 64 X2 will receive price cuts up to 50%

* AMD Sempron processors will receive price cuts up to 15%

Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2800

Full pricing info: http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/1779_la...ull_pricing.png

Until news of conroe I was convinced I was going to buy an x2 4200+. Then I heard conroe was releasing their E6600 (which beats an fx-62 in some tests) for less than the price of a x2 4200+. Now it seems AMD's x2 4600+ will be cheaper than the E6600

Haha, being a consumer in the middle of a price war is fantastic!

[Dark Reaper]

:(

I bought an AMD Athlon X2 4400+ a few months ago for about $300. If I waited, I could've saved another $100.

[TokyoKiller]

Wow...Thats a big price cut...

[L3thal Veteran]

Holy <insert foul word here> :o

[kaffra]

This is very good news indeed for consumers and AMD. core2duo is expected to amount to only 25% of intels cpu shipment this year. some say apart from the big oems, we might have to wait for september to buy it, a void AMD would love to fill.

[gfsdgfsdgfshgdgd]

ooh, shiny :D

If i earn enough next year I'll definitely be considering a major upgrade/new pc for the early/mid 2007 games, this is all good news for me ^_^

(unless i just end up getting a 360 or a wheeeeeeeeeeeee)

[Slimy]

Somehow I don't believe any of these price cuts until I actually see them.

[dragon2611]

:D that will be an althon 64 x2 for me then.

Ive been thinking about swapping my 3500+ for a x2 at somepoint, glad i waited now....

[Chosen One]

YAY this will be awesome for when i build a new system in fall :D

[trek]

sweet. x2 come xmas time for me.

[starmatrix]

YYAAAAAYYY what a waste of my money buying an amd athlon when the prices are about to go down. that makes me very happy indeed :)

[Monkeh]

Excellent! Which one is the best overclocker out of the discounted CPUs?

[Buttus]

wow, this is great, was just getting ready to help a friend build a new computer... will have to talk him into waiting a month or so....

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

very nice price cuts.. but i just upgraded :(

[BillyJack]

Too bad other hardware manufacturers dont follow along. It would be nice for a cheaper mother board and graphics card too.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Go AMD :)

[StartMeUp]

Just got my X2 4200+ a month ago. But I plan to buy the X2 5000+, its going to actually be affordable after these price cuts. :cool:

[Soham]

well, I hope that prices are true

[Prosidius]

If thats true, praise the lord. That means whenever I get enough $$, I can get the 4600 X2.

[oddcrap]

Nice!!!

[dL]

How come all the 512kb cache ones gets price cut but not the 1mb cache ones?

dL

[Kreuger]

That's good because I've been wanting to get a dual core system.

[shihchiun]

Hope this actually happens. I was thinking about building a Conroe system, but if I can get an x2 3800+ for $170...

[Meshuggah]

yay....X2 soon

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

hmmmm time to upgrade I guess :p~