Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
What CPU (at MSRP price point) was the E8400 intended to replace? Has the one that it intended to replace drop like a rock due to everyone clamoring to get an E8400? (Or has it actually maintained its street price due to E8400 shortages?)
It was intended to replace the E6850 3ghz chip. Which sells for $270 at newegg anyway. I'd say any place you can get a E8400/E3110 under $240 is still a good deal. The E6850 is a prime example of why they are holding the other two back. IF you were newegg and had 500-1000 of the 6850 in stock you'd be calling Intel every hour to make sure they didn't release these new ones at anywhere below $270. I mean it's a die shrink WITH an extra 2meg cache AND SSE 4.1 instead of SSE3. Only the mentally handicapped would buy the old version at even pricing, let alone $209 I got mine for yesterday! No pressure from AMD helps also. If AMD would have had a good chip out Intel would be in a bit of a quandry, likely leading to a price cut of $50 across the entire old line to get rid of them. Cmon AMD pull your heads out of your butts. Put out a 3.2ghz Phenom and I mean YESTERDAY!
Our only hope for future deals even as good as they are now is that AMD wins it's case against Intel (a forgone conclusion to me, they're being convicted of being a monopoly in every country but USA so far) and Intel has to pay them 10Bil or something. The problem is if AMD is dead before that victory comes it's pointless which is what Intel is hoping for probably. MS taught them it's ok to be a monopoly. Just pay a few people off when convicted and they'll all shut up and go away. It cost MS what like 300Mil paying an avg of about 20-25mil to the states that convicted them - That case started in like 1999, they made 60Bil since so they just laugh at those fines. This year they made 16.7B and had to pay fines around 2.5B on a case that started since 2004. LOL. Lets see, since 2004 I've made roughly 50B, but paid 2.5B in fines. It's a good deal, lets break some more laws...ROFL. Same story with DR Dos. BillG made like his first $20-30B off of it, then claimed it wasn't in his OS's for about 10 years. By the time the case was over, DR. Dos was out of business, bought by Caldera and they got a check for $20,000...Good grief. That will stop MS from breaking the law again...and again... Here's the real kicker, he's now giving us BACK DOS interface in server 2008...LOL. You can run it from command prompt that installs 1/2 size, and even has...Wait for it...Here it comes.......The SAME commands DOS did to operate it...ROFLMAO... BillG should be in jail. I really hope google breaks every law to kill MS. Serve him right. Don't get me wrong I love XP (64bit...Yeah unlike anand/dailytech wants you to think it's still fully supported - Asus Xonar/Xfi sound drivers updated, all chipsets support it, both Nvidia/ATI cards have updates same day as 32bit versions, networking cards, even wireless...but anand refuses to compare to Vista64! How much is MS paying them for that?)...You can shove the Vista turd right back where it came from. But this is getting way off track...
Sorry, I just blew a gasket. hehe
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p.s. Can't resist weird thought. You paid $390/$165oem for Ultimate Vista? It's support will expire in 2012. The kicker? XP PRO 64bit/32bit (279/130 oem) will be supported to 2014! 5 years after the next new OS comes out (expected 2009). BECAUSE, it's a business OS. Vista Ultimate is NOT. It's a HOME OS. That's right, your unsupported future OS. The last patch for that turd is 2012. ONLY Vista BUSINESS versions users will have longer. All others will be orphaned (as Anandtech called my favorite 64bit XP when I questioned them on why they don't benchmark it...BS!). Lies...Lies and xxxx lies. These years are from microsoft's own documents regarding expired OS dates. Look it up.