No More Duron

Fuck AMD they LIE.


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This is gonna be a long post,.. but.

Back about 12->18 months ago, the top of the line CPU for around 450$ -> 500$ .AU was the 1.4 T-Bird.
The 1.0ghz Athlon (or 900mhz?) was the lowest of the ATHLON range of CPU's.

Now,... this low range 1.0 ghz Athlon which overclocked to the top speeds when unlocked cost 170$ .AU or 85$ US.

Now, the costs are "fastest avail" around at this present time is about the same 450$ and higher, but their "low range" prices they have kept high - by phasing out CPU's too early, clever "price reductions" etc they have caused the MINIMUM cost of an AMD Athlon to be around 250$ Australian.

This means for a machine builder like me, I simply CAN NOT ]b build an AMD Athlon based machine without a minimum cost of 250 (maybe 230$ if I really bargain my way around) for the CPU.

That sucks.

I'd be more than happy for them to keep a couple more of their chips out (example when they release the 2.2 DON'T fucking phase out the 1600, 1700 and 1800 so quickly assholes and just drop the fucking price :(

Hmm, I'm thinking that they are gearing up to release their hammer shit, and so will be using the old athlon xp as their "cheap" chip.

Just a thought.

Good move for AMD. Hopefully they can keep kicking ass as always. Hopefully it's also not a bad sign for the company! Ack!

Love AMD though, great prices. In my local store, up here in Canada, the 2100+ xp ($444) is about half the price of a 2.2ghz intel ($840).

Chip was useless anyway, better to get a lower clock rate athlon for the same price.

move the wimpy shit out, here comes the throughobreds and the HAMMERS.

No surprise seeing how a 1600xp has gone down $50 since November down to $80

hmm, .09 micron hammer chips. I can hardly wait.

I thought ALL the AMD chips were "budget CPU's". ;-)

I love AMD CPU's, they make the Intel CPU's I buy cheaper

aww, that sucks how else do you expect people to get 1.3Ghz MP compatable cpus

thats a bad move, cuz in the minds of consumers have a category "low end" " high end" are needed to make decisions easily

Awwwww, am i dissapointed?