Price Guides May 2004: CPU and Video
by Kristopher Kubicki on May 11, 2004 6:02 PM EST- Posted in
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AMD Processors
AMD continues to cater to the overclocking crowd this week as their Athlon XP Mobile 2400+ (well as pretty much all of the Athlon XP-M line) shows what it can do. Overclockers report getting speeds in excess of 2.5GHz on air cooled setups. Remember, the XP-M are essentially handpicked low voltage Athlon XP chips (with unlocked multipliers). For those on the edge, there was a neat article a few days about about certain Athlon XP 2500+ chips with XP-M capabilities (that could be relatively easily unlocked). Even though Banias (and soon Dothan) dominate the mobile market, it looks like the recent XP-M and Athlon 64-M processors are regaining some lost ground.
As always, not everyone wishes to undertake overclocking or posses a motherboard and RAM capable of pushing the limits. For this reason, the Athlon XP 2800+ takes the cake for the sub-$100 buyer. Matching wits with our recommendation for the Intel side, the price is right and the performance is most definitely there.
AMD has also announced price cuts to their entire line of chips, most notably the Athlon XP and Mobile variations. The largest drops have been in the Opteron line thus far, but you can be assured to see some great price points before the introduction of Socket 939 in a month or so.
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KristopherKubicki - Saturday, May 15, 2004 - link
Price engine is doing better now.9600XT's wont drop that much until we see RV380 - at least a month or two. They are good cards, if you do not want to spend a lot of money buying one now is not a bad option.
Kristopher
vlsi54199 - Friday, May 14, 2004 - link
Shall I hold on buying a 9600XT card? how much do you think the price will drop? and how soon?SHO235V8 - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
There must be BIG price cuts coming (or rebates, argh). I don't know many of us who would pay essentially the same $400 for last year's technology, good cards or not! :)KillaKilla - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
Well that's no good... The X800, as of late, costs as much as a 9800XT does!Alright! Wait... no... no! It's not all right! oh! -Ira-,e r, Quagmire
Chaotic42 - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
D'oh!I just paid $177 each for two MP 2800s.
Oh, well.
l3ored - Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - link
from what i read, a64 mobiles are just regular ones without the heatinkJGF - Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - link
oh well THATS encouraging....Actually I wasnt expecting PCI-E to be available for 939 until late summer and had pretty well convinced myself I didnt need it. Hopefully the PCI-E is being bumped up to rollout closer to 939 and 939 isnt being bumped back to accomodate PCI-E. >:(
TrogdorJW - Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - link
So I have a question: the Athlon XP Mobile chips are not multiplier locked. What about the Mobile (DTR) Athlon 64 chips? (Hey, I can dream, can't I?)KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - link
Hehe, to be honest, i think everyone is having problems getting PCI-Express to work. Thats what Intel has been delayed too.Kristopher
JGF - Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - link
Lord almight every month its 'in a month or so' wrt the 939 launch. Has it been pushed back from the June 1 Computex date now?????? I have half a mind to flip amd the bird and get a 3.4 ghz P4. >:(