AMD price cuts announced.

[Jammrock]

And they are HUGE!!

http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3361

According to this, as of 24 July AMD will only sell two processor more than $300 in bulk: the FX-62 ($799) and the 65 W X2 5000+ ($324). The X2 3800+ and 4200+ will slide in under $200 as well (for non-low power versions).

Wow.

[Elie]

Too bad the Opterons are not effected

[Paddy]

So what CPU offers the best 'bang for buck'. I'd like to get rid of my XP3200....

[Jammrock]

So what CPU offers the best 'bang for buck'. I'd like to get rid of my XP3200....

X2 4600+ or X2 5000+. They are within $60 USD of each other, and both under $300 USD. Don't know what they will sell for in the UK, but that's a good price for a dual core CPU. The X2 4200+ @ $175 is a fantastic price for a budget CPU.

[Nowhere]

Ahhh, crap, now for the 80 or 90€ (minimum) needed for my upgrade to P4 3GHz I will be able, possibly, to buy mobo with cheapest Sempron (hoping its higher performance and better memory acces will resolve my one big problem) and wait for the price of cheapest Athlon X2 to fall further...luckily still 1,5 months to make that decision.

[ND66]

Say, this would happen because of this news here:

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?t=57674

[Mehen]

best bang for the buck will still be the low/mid core 2 duos

[Taz]

Too bad the Opterons are not effected

Damn

[Fluff]

This 4x4 idea Amd is pushing around.

Is it just a consumer version of 2 x dual core opteron with dedicated memory controller per socket with DDR2 and NUMA?

Kinda a cut down Tyan Thunder K8WE.