AMD needs to make with the chips...

[slash196]

Yesterday, Newegg had a 3500+ winchester OEM priced at 299. Today? 335. In my book, a 36 dollar price spike in 24 hours is unacceptable. If AMD doesn't crank out some more chips soon, they're gonna start charging 300 bucks for a 3200. Is it possible that they had a limited run on the Winchesters because it's just a stopgap core, holding down the proverbial 90nm fort until the new San Diego and Venice cores next year?

 

[PVD]

well my 3500+ I bought at monarch 3 weeks ago was $262 OEM. Still, even at 300-330 this is a good price b/c mine is running as fast as an FX-55 Overclocked. Do the math- 300 vs 850

 

[acivick]

I don't think they fully anticipated the interest in those procs. With everyone and their brother upgrading their rigs recently due to games like Doom3 and HL2, the supply just can't keep up with the demand. Add to that the Christmas rush and you have a very healthy (for the venders) buying season, with prices steadily climbing as the supply dwindles. But I do think that AMD will (if it hasn't already) be ramping up production, though you probably won't see that until after the holidays.

I've always recommended NOT buying computer parts around this time, and this is especially true this year.

 

[imported_MetalMarine]

i ordered my 3500+ 90nm from newegg on monday the 13th and it was 280.

 

[CheesePoofs]

That price jump will probably go away in a few days.
And besides, AMD is opening up a few new fabs soon, so production of their chips will get a lot faster within the year, hopefully sooner.

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: slash196
Yesterday, Newegg had a 3500+ winchester OEM priced at 299. Today? 335.

It's $345 now :shocked:

 

[Arclite]

I had a chance to get a refurb 3500 off egg for $250. I would have gotten it but all it had was a 7 day warrenty. Who knows what the guy that had it before did to it.

 

[Zebo]

PSA STOP complaing about prices.

153 for retail boxed 3000

198 for retail boxed 3200

264 for retail boxed 3500

here http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Pro...ard+Bundles+By+AMD+CPU

 

[Mik3y]

it's not amd that's raising the price. its the vendors that control the price. amd has a pretty consistent price on cpu's in bulk.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
That price jump will probably go away in a few days.
And besides, AMD is opening up a few new fabs soon, so production of their chips will get a lot faster within the year, hopefully sooner.

Actually, they have one fab (Fab36 in Dresden, Germany) that will be ready to ramp up 65nm production in 2006.

Other than that, they've recently struck an agreement with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing for them to become a foundry for AMD's 64-bit cpu's. It sounds fairly promising... But then again so did their agreements with TSMC, UMC, and IBM that never came to fruition.