Price Guides, May 2005: Processors
by Kristopher Kubicki on May 22, 2005 10:00 PM EST- Posted in
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As always, we like to start off our price guides with a little plug for our Real Time Price Engine, quite possibly the fastest growing price engine on the internet. We thought we would mention that we just added our 5,000 th product a few days ago, and we are happy to boast that site traffic for the RTPE had quadrupled since December. Thanks for choosing the RTPE and the QuickSearch RSS!
Merchant news this week has been relatively bland since last week. Newegg’s spinoff, ChiefValue, continues to dominate the price landscape. Last week, CV held the lowest prices on 20% of our listed products, but Monarch and ZipZoomFly aren’t just sitting around. Pricing across the board are much lower than usual.
There have been several new products since our last CPU guide. AMD unleashed its dual core madness several weeks ago, and we brought coverage on the Opterons and Athlon 64 X2s, and merchants are just starting to ship some of those processors now (which we, of course, have added to our price engine). Intel has quietly released some new low end SKUs, and of course, their dual core solution is also geared up for sometime before June (check out Part I and Part II of our Intel dual core analysis here). With all these new SKUs from AMD and Intel, it can get fairly difficult to pick out a processor. Last week, we wrote a small little update on some of the core names and details to help combat that!
In other price engine related news, we started listing DDR memory kits instead of single stick products. The new kits are denoted as “2x512MB”, “2x256”, etc. Of course, if you see a product that we don’t have yet, feel free to email us and let us know!
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semo - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
i don't know... after seeing the next gen consoles i care a lot less about new x86 procs. even in their early days the next gen consoles should cost less than the x2.AnnihilatorX - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
AMD Athlon 64 (939) 3700+ 1MB San Diego is $329 not $299that suprised me...
MAME - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
where are the X2's?Rand - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
Any reason why you don't list any of the 533MHz FSB Pentium M's?bearxor - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
Can't wait to see if AMD includes 64-bit on Sempron processors now.cnq - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
Kristopher,May be a slight error or 2 in the AMD SKU overview.
"Hammer" is not the name of *any* AMD stepping. It's the very general code name for the K8 architecture, encompassing, well, everything.
You meant "ClawHammer". And it's not true that all ClawHammers are C0; there are some CG's. Consider the socket 754 3700+, and some of the mobile chips. Unless the ones that I think are CG are actually the SledgeHammers.
Speaking of SledgeHammers: it's the FX-53/4000+ 130nm and FX-55/130nm, which are said to have ripping memory controllers compared to like-week'd NewCastles but are otherwise similar to CG ClawHammers.
cmyk - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
And were are the opterons?cmyk - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link
dgarz01 - Sunday, May 22, 2005 - link
I see no mention of the Pentium M Sonoma Plaform why is that? It woudl be nice to include this is your review for next time.Tarumam - Sunday, May 22, 2005 - link
The best buy is socket 939 3700+. Its a San Diego core, it has 1MB cache, new SSE3 instructions, its memory controller is revised and its under US$ 300,00. Not quite a bargain, but still an incredible price/performance ratio.That would be my pick, if a powerful system was needed today.