AMD Price Cut Overview

I have a Shuttle XPC SB61G2-V4 ( http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SB61G2%20V4.asp ), which says it takes a Pentium 4 Socket 478 CPU. If the Shuttle SFF only takes dual-channel DDR up to 400MHz, does that mean I can/should only buy a CPU that goes up to 400MHz?

TLDR: What is the maximum speed / model my SFF can take?

So basically, anyone that just bought an AMD CPU should feel really really really sad right now.

Using these new prices and some benchmarks from the Anadtech conroe review, I made a little chart of your main >200 dollar CPU choices (lumped together with performance tiers).

Tier 1
Core Duo 2 X6800 - $999 (Quake 4: 160, BF 2: 130, HL2: 192, FEAR: 118)
AMD - N/A

Tier 2
Core Duo 2 E6700 - $530 (Quake 4: 154, BF 2: 126, HL2: 189, FEAR: 111)
AMD - N/A

Tier 3
Core Duo 2 E6600 - $316 (Quake 4: 150, BF2: 121, HL2: 184, FEAR: 108)
Athlon 64 FX-62 - $799 (Quake 4: 144, BF2: 109, HL2: 170, FEAR: 101)

Tier 4 (Had to estimate the 6400 benches based on the 6300 and 6600 numbers)
Core Duo 2 E6400 - $224 (Estimates - Quake 4: 130-145, BF2: 100-110, HL2: 160-170, FEAR: 95-100)
Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - $282 (Quake 4: 139, BF2: 95, HL2: 158, FEAR 96)

Tier 5
Core Duo 2 E6300 - $183 (Quake 4: 124, BF2: 97, HL2: 154, FEAR: 92)
Athlon 64 X2 4600+ - $224 (Quake 4: 129, BF2: 92, HL2: 151, FEAR 92)

Intel is pretty much the price/performance winner in every tier. Its probably a different story for the cheaper (sub $180) chips.

Great!!!! Long live pricewar!!!! I just hope this prices hold until december...Im broke right now :(

The FX-62 is still $799 though, and looking at a lot of the benchmarks the 6600 was at least equal, mostly better and that costs around $300...

Holy crap, I think it's almost time to upgrade from my 3200+ A64...

I would assume that the "Socket AM2" chips are for new motherboards, and are not compatible with my Socket 939 mobo (MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI)?

Should I assume that the ones that don't specify a socket in the chart would work are socket 939?

More price wars, more competition!! Good stuff...

So when would we actually see these price cuts on "the intarweb" (i.e. via PriceWatch) or retail, i.e. Fry's? On 7/24, or at some point after, when they sell out of the units they bought from AMD at a more expensive wholesale price and have to re-order?

I can imagine what the answer might be, but I'm wondering if anyone remembers how this has historically gone down.

So the 4800x2 isn't gonna drop in price?

This is good news. Looks like the time to upgrade my 3500+ is around the corner. Granted, Conroe chips will be faster, but in bang for buck upgrade cost this will be the more economical path for me to take. Woohoo.

Now if only that AGP version of the Geforce 7600 would come out. Damn older mobo.

I wonder how long AMD can keep this up before losing MASSIVE revenue. I know it is necessary in in order to stay competitive, but I worry this might put AMD into hard times. Just a thought.

Yumm, X2 5000 EE at $324.

lol I just upgraded

Wonder if it's worth upgrading from a 4400+ to 4600+. Cache doesn't weigh as heavy as I thought in the chip design.

is this a north america only thing or do these price cuts apply to europe too?

Looks like I'll have to pop for a X2-5000+ :-D

actually unless im reading the article wrong it says there will be no price cuts and it was just an article to say previous thought oct 23rd price cuts won't be happening?

holy shit .......yah very very tempting right now