On 1/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:28:41PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: > > Actually, you should hold off until after June before buying any AMD64 > > CPU. AMD will be releasing a new socket style and the current Socket > > 939 and 754 chips should drop in prices, not sure about the Opterons > > (Socket 940). > > Actually, you should probably hold off buying *any* piece of computing > equipment until you can't do without it, as prices keep going down. > Rare is the day I pay the price they quoted me at my local computer > store, because the price goes down too fast.
Funny enough, the Athlon64 prices do not seem to drop very quickly. I bought my 3000+ 939p for 109 Euro a year ago. Now it has been discontinued, but the 3200+ is still quite a bit more expensive. Funny that, because everything else in the PC has dropped in value significantly. I think it took a while for the word to travel that the Athlon64 are indeed a revolution in performance. And AMD certainly made the most out of it, in terms of money :-). I guess future prices will depend a lot on whether the new Intel chips deliver or not. Thomas