AMD issues dramatic price cuts for triple-core CPUs

[pc0day]

Just read about this news, A quick look at Intel’s price sheet reveals that AMD decided to price its X3 processors at the very low-end of Intel’s Core 2 Duo range. ( AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 2.3Ghz Dual Core for $25 ):
AMD issues dramatic price cuts for triple-core CPUs (http://www.topnewsblog.info/tblog_10938.htm)

[Davros]

that sort of makes sense to me
most programs only take advantage of 2 cores, or as many cores as are available

[ShaidarHaran]

1) who the **** is "topnewsblog"?
2) they're talking about falling reseller prices as though it's an official price cut. no...

[Moloch]

that sort of makes sense to me
most programs only take advantage of 2 cores, or as many cores as are available
Well that and the C2D has a massive per-clock performance advantage over it so assuming most apps get "fixed" where they will use all the cores available(for apps that can use 4 or more threads, yet only put out 2 for the x3) they will need that extra core to match/beat the performance of them.

[Acert93]

1) who the **** is "topnewsblog"?

Dunno, but the "link" to NewEgg goes through an affiliate link (dealstudio) of some sort...

[ShaidarHaran]

Dunno, but the "link" to NewEgg goes through an affiliate link (dealstudio) of some sort...

Which is a referral, meaning that page is nothing but an attempt to garner ad revenue.

:thumbs down: