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Raven · Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 6378 Location: Sriniskal

AMD's new pricing:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html

Newegg and Tigerdirect have yet to reflect this new pricing. It seems they are going to liquidate old stock first (Newegg) or milk an insanely huge markup (Tigerdirect) for a few days. To heck with it, I'm getting a Core Duo.
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Zelig · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 4178

ncix lowered their prices a couple days ago. Smile

You mean Core 2 Duo? I'm wondering when Core 2 Duo will actually be available for the masses, Intel only expects Core 2 Duo to comprise ~20% of their total cpus being shipped by the end of 2006. Considering Dell and other OEM manufacturers get first stab at all the new processors, that might not leave a whole lot of boxed cpus for us to order.

Discomb · Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 4262 Location: Beijing, China

According to the last time I recall checking its release date, it should be out before the end of the month, and it's called Core 2 Duo, not Core Duo 2. :p
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killer_roach · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: Re: AMD cuts prices

Core 2 Duo is actually out now... whether we'll see many by the end of the year is another story, though.
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Grom_hellscream · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: AMD cuts prices

maby time soon too buy the new rig...
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Raven · Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 6378 Location: Sriniskal

Well, according to the Inquirer, Intel will release the Core 2 Duo to the public on the 27th.

I've been waiting since May for the new hardware to come out. It's almost a losing battle. As soon as something new comes out that was totally necessary, something else totally necessary is coming out 2 weeks later. I've decided that as soon as video cards support DX 10, I'm putting $1100 USD into a new machine.
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Discomb · Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 4262 Location: Beijing, China

Problem is, ATI and Nvidia set their roadmaps to create the DX10 cards by this month, but Vista was pushed back to (March 2007 was it?), so we don't know if they'll be announcing their newest hardware now or wait till later to improve and increase the model availability. From the leaked information, it seems (to me at least) that ATI will have the upper hand.
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killer_roach · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:14 am Post subject: Re: AMD cuts prices

Vista is supposed to launch in January, and the DX10 cards are supposed to first hit the market sometime in September. Even for those who aren't upgrading to Vista, the DX10 cards have a massive number of pipelines, and should be absolute beasts in DX9 gaming.
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Discomb · Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 4262 Location: Beijing, China

Well of course. I'm waiting a few weeks to hear customer reviews and general opinion on their stuff, and then buying one myself without a doubt.
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killer_roach · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: Re: AMD cuts prices

I'll wait to see some DX10 benchmarks, as I don't want to pick up this next generation's equivalent of a GeForceFX... but that shouldn't take long into 2007.
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Discomb · Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 4262 Location: Beijing, China

Well, speak of the devil.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3446
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killer_roach · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: Re: AMD cuts prices

Although that's just a slightly pumped-up X1900XT, a DX9 part...

From reading another article, both G80 and R600 have slipped off the 2006 roadmaps entirely.
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Discomb · Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 4262 Location: Beijing, China

That's what I was afraid of...
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Raven · Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 6378 Location: Sriniskal

**** it. **** Microsoft. The moment a < $300 Conroe is out, I'm buying my whole system and putting Fedora Core in.
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