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AMD Kills Off Several Athlon CPUs

by Maarten Goldstein, Jun 14, 2006 1:53pm PDT

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Tech Report has a story about AMD's plans for some of its older Athlon CPUs. Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 4400+, and 4000+ for Socket AM2 and model 4400+ for Socket 939 chips will be retired soon, as will 4000+, 3700+, 3200+, and 3000+ single core chips. Several Sempron CPUs will be discontinued as well.

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Wait...didn't they JUST release the AM2 and X2 stuff?

Jun 14, 2006 2:37pm PDT

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Wait...didn't they JUST release the AM2 and X2 stuff? : Madwacker
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  Well they aren't discontinuing AM2 (that will take a year or 2 at least i'm guessing). But yeah, I'm sur... : wykd
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    i believe they are just cutting the ones with speciific cache sizes. It looks merely to be a cost cutting... : italiano3d
    - thats partly what it is, they remove the 1mb cache models from the consumer line so they can sell more op... : mrjackson2000

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This makes my Athlon XP 2500+ whimper with shame.

Jun 14, 2006 3:03pm PDT

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This makes my Athlon XP 2500+ whimper with shame. : Delusional
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  yeah, um, my 1700+ based desktop, which i use for internet and older games, (the best it can play ok is p... : The Jesus Prime
  - yeah, kickass for a LAPTOP that is, er was :( : The Jesus Prime
- I hear that. :( Been with a 2500 for years now. Waiting for Conroe til I upgrade at long, long last. : Zips

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Im starting too feel that my once high end machine is nothing more than an adverage computer now... with a fast video card.

Jun 14, 2006 1:55pm PDT

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Im starting too feel that my once high end machine is nothing more than an adverage computer now... with ... : godm0de
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- Is a 4800 X2 old? Man, I'm going to hop on that when they cut the price to retire it. My machine is shi... : wykd
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  hah me too, my 1 year old 3800+ single core is already beyond obsolete, but with a x1900 my computer stil... : tunis5000
  - oh that's AM2, nm : tunis5000
  - A 3800+ is hardly obsolete. It may not be the shiniest new thing anymore, but that's not the same thing. : Conan

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damn this sucks.
I really want to get a X2 4800+ but was waiting til the prices came down a little. I hope I can still get one if/when the price falls.

Jun 14, 2006 5:51pm PDT

damn this sucks. I really want to get a X2 4800+ but was waiting til the prices came down a little. I h... : Modulus

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"Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 4400+, and 4000+ for Socket AM2 and model 4400+ for Socket 939 chips will be retired soon"

Isn't that like... almost all of the dual core AM2 CPUs? On second glance I guess that leaves us with the X2 5000+, 4600+, 4200+ and 3800+. Maybe to give more incentive to make the jump up to the 5000+?

Jun 14, 2006 5:05pm PDT

"Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 4400+, and 4000+ for Socket AM2 and model 4400+ for Socket 939 chips will be retired : Sapiens

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Shit....this is a nice time to start upgrading. I'm not a big AMD fan, but retailer's will be dumping this stuff to the market to get rid of it. Chaching.

Jun 14, 2006 2:21pm PDT

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Shit....this is a nice time to start upgrading. I'm not a big AMD fan, but retailer's will be dumping thi... : Morphius
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- Have been an intel fanboy since my 386SX (Yes, I'm cheap)... just ordered a X2 3800 =x : rosone

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This isn't good news at all. AMD is shifting the good 1 MB L2 cores to the high end while giving the average buyer that looked for value 512 KB cores. Glad I got my X2 4400+ already. I don't like this move at all though especially in the face of Intel's Conroe and Merom having 4 MB L2.

Jun 14, 2006 1:58pm PDT

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This isn't good news at all. AMD is shifting the good 1 MB L2 cores to the high end while giving the aver... : 5150Joker
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- I think it makes sense. They are probably cutting prices on all the X2s, so once they do that having so m... : tigeN

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quad damage?

Jun 14, 2006 3:28pm PDT

quad damage? : deviantpaul

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What about the X2 4200?

Jun 14, 2006 3:10pm PDT

What about the X2 4200? : cornholio

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Somewhere a little Toraz is crying because AMD neutered their cowbell.

Jun 14, 2006 2:44pm PDT

Somewhere a little Toraz is crying because AMD neutered their cowbell. : nomaad