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AMD cuts prices again
Author: Brett ThomasPublished: 9th July 2007
"Tiiiimmmmbbbeeerrr!" - Beware of falling prices, because AMD chips are down to ridiculous levels.
News started coming from the green camp on Friday to signal the impending cuts, but not many people really believed they would be quite this drastic. The entire processor line from top to bottom has seen cuts of between 25 and 30 percent. One can now acquire a 4000+ (by no means a slow processor) for a mere $69 USD!
This huge price drop is liable to ruffle a few feathers in the Intel camp, as it makes the concept of splurging on that new Core 2 pretty hard to do unless you are truly looking for absolute performance right now. With AMD's Barcelona performance still effectively under wraps after last week's benchmarking incident, the incredibly low price could be a great reason to switch to the AM2 platform while preserving a great upgrade path.
The final tally of prices for the X2 line is below:
| Model | Former Pricing | July 9 Pricing |
| 6000+ | $229 | $169 |
| 5600+ | $179 | $149 |
| 5200+ | $169 | $129 |
| 4800+ | $129 | $109 |
| 4400+ | $115 | $89 |
| 4200+ | $102 | $79 |
| 4000+ | $99 | $69 |
This brings a whole new meaning to the term "Cheap as chips." But is it enough to keep you going green until Barcelona? Drop your thoughts in our community discussion.
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Shopping time for me.
**edit: no mention of the FX family?
Its funny though, how we do not seem to get similar price competition with graphics products
I need an upgrade for Crisis :(
The Bad news: If the companies competing in a price war aren't evenly matched, then it'll hurt one company more than the other, possibly driving them out of the market. Hopefully this doesn't hurt AMD financially too much. Because if it does, this short term gain would result in a long term loss (AMD leaving the market, Intel left with no competition, to stagnate).
Aggies
I just now went dual core.
but i thought AMD's bottom line was already suffering :o
Intell will cut prices 22.7. Im curious hou this "proce war" will continue.
(Sorry my bad english.)
for the 6000+ chip not worth it (both OC to the same level)
quad core should work on my motherboard as well
AMD when they borrowed the funds to build and tool the German 65 NM plant had retail prices of $1000 on their high end CPUs. This was also true when they purchased ATI for $5.4 billion US dollars. The prices now are not even one fifth of what they where and I would say the money lenders must be very near panic with these new announced prices. The very sad part of this is, it was just early April that AMD lowered prices by 50 % now we see an additional 40% looped of the top. What this indicates is no one wanted their CPU even though the highest priced Desktop was only $248. Although the tone of this article made it seem, this was a good price to purchase an AMD CPU or system but I need to ask why is this a better time what was wrong with the April almost give away? it is perfectly clear those prices must not have worked out, so again AMD is trying to find a price that they can move merchandise. Could turn out to be a very sad story for AMD CPU users and supporters due to the fact that these prices may be enough to keep the lights on at AMD but they are certainly are not nearly enough to pay for the R&D that brings invitation to the CPU world.
Their current problems are all down to a good marketing job by Intel for their C2D line.
$170 for a 3GHz AMD chip is obscenely cheap, and given their speed you'd be mad not to pick one up for a system intended for someone other than a mad OC'er or upgrader. This is the end AMD want - they want to have computers built on the cheap with AMD CPU's because Intel ones are too expensive.
When it comes to moving to a new socket though I guess it'll be S775 and a nice relatively cheap Q6600 after the price-cut :)
But if Barcelona turns out to be something good after all, one never knows ;)