AMD Slashing X2 Prices Again

[WC Annihilus]

"AMD is planning on slashing the prices on their Athlon X2 prices yet again"

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[Ham]

Again!?!

Good god, get the new chips out AMD. I hope this is a pre-phenom (or w/e its called) move opposed too a 'we're in serious trouble and need to sell anything' move...

 

[Rastalovich]

The AMD 6400 x2 is roughly the equiv. pp to what C2D ?

Going by the marketing label they used to adopt, but poo-poo`d some time ago, can u say E6300 ? meh, trying to be a E6300 ?

I think they didn`t internally drop that marketing, but were forced to say they had when performances turned out to be so different.

AMD 3800 x2 roughly equiv. pp to a theoretical Intel E3800 ? When the E6300 was out ?

 

[FarFarAway]

It's a price slash before their quads come to the market. Then they sell the quads at a nice price too

 

[JN]

Bloody hell, soon they'll be selling X2's in a big jar behind the counter of your local corner shop. "I'll have a quarter of X2 please shopkeeper".. "that'll be 50 pence son".

 

[koganinja]

rofl :rollingla

desprate times desprate messures

 

[Allsorts]

Wow that's good news for people on AM2.

 

[Bungral]

The AMD 6400 x2 is roughly the equiv. pp to what C2D ?

Going by the marketing label they used to adopt, but poo-poo`d some time ago, can u say E6300 ? meh, trying to be a E6300 ?

I think they didn`t internally drop that marketing, but were forced to say they had when performances turned out to be so different.

AMD 3800 x2 roughly equiv. pp to a theoretical Intel E3800 ? When the E6300 was out ?

The 6400 x2 is something comparable to a E6700 both at stock... Around there anyway.

 

[Rastalovich]

The 6400 x2 is something comparable to a E6700 both at stock... Around there anyway.

Well that`s fair enough imo.

I know there`s cache differentials, but to the layman u can atleast very roughly look at the numbers as a comparison.

Outside of critical benching and oc`ing of course.

Does also show their poo`ing of the numbers no longer meaning anything was a lie to keep u buying 3800+ x2s in the shadow of E6300s.

 

[Hyper]

Bloody hell, soon they'll be selling X2's in a big jar behind the counter of your local corner shop. "I'll have a quarter of X2 please shopkeeper".. "that'll be 50 pence son".

Lmao that saved the thread for sure :worship:

 

[Mr. Smith]

The 6400 x2 is something comparable to a E6700 both at stock... Around there anyway.

NO WAY! Do you have any benchies or anything? I thought they were well behind...

 

[nrage]

NO WAY! Do you have any benchies or anything? I thought they were well behind...

It depends on the task:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/cpu-charts/clone-dvd-2-8,296.html?p=616%2C615%2C613%2C612

They don't have the AMD X2 6400 in there but they do have the 6000 and you can compare that to the E6600 and E6700, different tasks give different results, mostly due to the memory architecture I suspect.

 

[Bungral]

It depends on the task:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/cpu-charts/clone-dvd-2-8,296.html?p=616%2C615%2C613%2C612

They don't have the AMD X2 6400 in there but they do have the 6000 and you can compare that to the E6600 and E6700, different tasks give different results, mostly due to the memory architecture I suspect.

Yeah i did that exact comparison before i bought my E6600... The X2 6000 beat the E6600 in quite a few things.. especially the memory benchmarks but the E6600 beat it in some important things as well as the massive overclocking potential on up to date architecture.

Also in reply to you Mr. Smith, na i don't have benchies but i read it somewhere. Plus it seemed to make sense to me so didn't really question it at time of reading. But if it is true then it could only be at stock as i'm sure a 6400 isn't gonna have much headroom at all for clocking whereas the E6700 will get past 4ghz (depending on chip obviously).