Price Drop...Athlon X2 3800 939 now $89.99 Free Shipping

[ArchAngel777]

Ordered one for myself and one for my dad... Thanks OP!

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Originally posted by: skljohnson
I tried to resist...but my 3500+ was telling me to replace it.

I wonder how much these prices will drop? Maybe I should wait but I don't think these are going to go much lower. I remember when these were $220.00 when they first came out.

I know AMD stopped taking orders on 939 chips a few months ago, so this is likely to clear out excess stock. I can't imagine it'll get much cheaper than $93 for a dual core A64 in the 939 variety.

 

[skljohnson]

Originally posted by: Krakn3Dfx

Originally posted by: skljohnson
I tried to resist...but my 3500+ was telling me to replace it.

I wonder how much these prices will drop? Maybe I should wait but I don't think these are going to go much lower. I remember when these were $220.00 when they first came out.

I know AMD stopped taking orders on 939 chips a few months ago, so this is likely to clear out excess stock. I can't imagine it'll get much cheaper than $93 for a dual core A64 in the 939 variety.

Your right, they probably won't go much cheaper. I don't want to spend the extra required to go Core Duo with all the memory upgrades and a new MOBO. This will have to do for now.

I'm in for one, Thanks OP. Edited cause I hit reply too fast...Opps

 

[aporetic]

I'm currently using a Venice core 3000+ in an Asus A8NE overclocked to 2.57GHz. Would I see a significant performance increase with the X2 3800? Will it work in the A8NE (which is a socket 939 board)? I use the rig mostly for games. I'm trying to decide if it will be worth the $93 to delay upgrading, or if I should wait and apply the $93 towards my next "major" upgrade. TIA for your thoughts.

 

[timxpx]

is this worth canning my 148 opteron?

edit- it's a 2.2ghz single core... most demanding game i play is cs:source. only other thing that would push the machine is 3d modeling (blender). i might play the new command and conquer, but i'm not sure how demanding it is.

i don't wanna go out and buy all new stuff for c2d because everything i do right now runs fine.

 

[GeezerMan]

Dual cores are great for video encoding, and multi tasking. Few current games take advantage of dual core, but they should in the near future. Yes, the 3800+ X2 works fine in the A8N-E. My sister has been using that combo for over a year now in her business machine.

 

[polypterus]

AMD really screwed up phasing out 939 so soon. There's a huge demand for these things.

 

[aporetic]

Thanks for your input GeezerMan; I think I'll jump.

 

[hoss]

I'm currently running a 3200+ Venice and use it mostly for photoshop and imaging programs and some gaming. I've been reading that most software doesn't take advantage of the dual core. My question is, would the 4000+ San Diego going for $69.99 be a better upgrade for me. At some point I will upgrage to some multi core platform when it becomes compelling. For now I just want something to get me through a couple more years.

Link to San Diego
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103037

 

[Somniferum]

I'm in. Thanks Kobb for the PM.

 

[LilGator]

Anyone who has one, know how well this handles VC-1/H.264 1080p ?

If not at stock, then overclocked?

 

[Somniferum]

Originally posted by: LilGator
Anyone who has one, know how well this handles VC-1/H.264 1080p ?

If not at stock, then overclocked?

Sorry, I'm dumb -- WTF is a VC-1/H.264 1080p?

 

[cubeless]

high def vid...

 

[beastyben1]

The X2 3800 I ordered yesterday is shipping out of TN. Hopefully that is close to everyone who ordered. UPS is iffy sometimes on their "Guaranteed 3 day." The other parts of my order are coming from CA. Doesn't really matter b/c I'm in CO so yeah. And for those who said "Thank you" you are welcome. I'm off to class, enjoy your day.

 

[jdoggg12]

sweet, i ordered mine last night, but the warehouse is only 150 miles away... i should get it by thur. sweet!

 

[Showtime]

Unless you really need it now, the Intels price cuts are hitting in the next 3 weeks. Apparently, AMD's cuts are supposed to hit next week. 20% or better from what I remember. That should translate into some really nice deals.

 

[Kobb]

Sounds just like my story, new 3700 3 months ago too!. JUST DO IT. Stalker is supposed to utilize dual core.

OR

Wait as Showtime suggests for a ??20%?? price drop.... Hmmm maybe this is the 20% price drop. This was $109 last week.

Originally posted by: GuildBoss
Shoot. I just built my new rig with a single core 64-bit Athlon 3700+ (939). The thing isn't even 3 months old!

Will the X2 really be *that* much faster? I mostly play games on this rig....STALKER being one of them.

 

[beastyben1]

I think all the official AMD price cuts exclude socket 939. This processor for $77.50? I don't believe it which is why I bought it for $92.99.

 

[Paolo]

Originally posted by: hoss
I'm currently running a 3200+ Venice and use it mostly for photoshop and imaging programs and some gaming. I've been reading that most software doesn't take advantage of the dual core. My question is, would the 4000+ San Diego going for $69.99 be a better upgrade for me. At some point I will upgrage to some multi core platform when it becomes compelling. For now I just want something to get me through a couple more years.

Photoshop does use dual cores. That is a major reason I chose to jump on this deal.

 

[johnnycasaba]

I jumped today too, just wish that paypal 15 off was still active. Mine is shipping from the NJ warehouse, should be here tomorrow.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Originally posted by: Paolo

Originally posted by: hoss
I'm currently running a 3200+ Venice and use it mostly for photoshop and imaging programs and some gaming. I've been reading that most software doesn't take advantage of the dual core. My question is, would the 4000+ San Diego going for $69.99 be a better upgrade for me. At some point I will upgrage to some multi core platform when it becomes compelling. For now I just want something to get me through a couple more years.

Photoshop does use dual cores. That is a major reason I chose to jump on this deal.

The multi-tasking benefits are immense. I went from a 3200 to this, and I can never go back to single core. Alt tabbing out of games like butter is worth every penny.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Originally posted by: FrizQuadrata
AMD really screwed up phasing out 939 so soon. There's a huge demand for these things.

Agreed, I don't understand it completely, since AMD really doesn't benefit from the motherboard chipset market at all I think it would be easy enough for them to support a line of quad core processors on the 939 pin-out later this year if they had chosen to do so. I'm pretty hesitant about moving to AM2 right now based solely on the fact that they do seem to be moving through socket types faster than even Intel, who I thought was moving through them too fast as it was.

Add to that the fact that other than to upgrade to a new CPU, there's really no reason to move to DDR2 at this point. If Intel comes out with a cheaper version of their quad core C2Ds in the next few months and I can slap one of a board that will take DDR1, which you can do with current C2D CPUs, I might do that.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I popped mine in last night, hit 2.5GHz at 1.4v without a problem on my ASrock 939Dual-SATA2. Ran Prime on both cores overnight, no issues. I'm gonna play around with it some more this weekend, see what I can get it up to. Awesome chip, especially given the price.

If you're asking whether or not this CPU is worthy upgrade for your current socket 939 single core processor, the answer is YES, buy now before the remaining stock is depleted, you will see the benefits when you put it in and boot into Windows, you will see the benefit in application load times, some newer games like Oblivion, STALKER, SupCom (you'll REALLY see a difference in SupCom, it's VERY CPU intensive, and completely utilizes a multi-core setup), and just in general everyday tasks with multiple browsers, image editing, etc., you will see a substantial difference in performance, and more so as time goes on.

 

[GuildBoss]

Finally jumped on it. Picked up an Arctic Freezer pro 64 to go with it. Anybody need a slightly used single core 64-bit 3700+?!?

Thanks op!

 

[Somniferum]

The price just jumped slightly to $95.99 ... interesting. I got in before the jump. Shipped from TN warehouse this morning (I'm in ATL) so hopefully it will be here by the weekend.