Retail AMD Athlon 64 3200+ $299 at Newegg

[govtcheez75]

Is this a price drop? I was looking at them last night, and it was still $440 or so. Did the price drop $140 overnight? The Retail one is less than the OEM model which is still $404. No other place has them for under $400, so this is a HOT deal if it's not a price mistake. What you you think?
Athon 64 at Newegg

 

[NightCrawler]

Damn...nice price reduction !

 

[pelikan]

Hot deal. Must be because of the 3400+ coming out.

 

[decode]

AMD reduced the price for 1000-unit trays of Athlon 64 3200+'s from $417 to $278, effective today.

AMD Processor Pricing

 

[ballyn]

Best price I can find for the retail box is $415... Question is will this be a hot price after the new chips/prices are announced. Makes me glad I didn't jump on that 3000+ for $220, tho.

 

[govtcheez75]

Originally posted by: ballyn
Best price I can find for the retail box is $415... Question is will this be a hot price after the new chips/prices are announced. Makes me glad I didn't jump on that 3000+ for $220, tho.

I'm thinking about getting the 3200+ OEM for $275. I think this might be a better value than the 3000+ for $215, but I don't know. The only difference between the two is that the 3000+ has 512mb cache and 3200+ has 1mb. Decisions decisions!

 

[Madcat207]

Why Ballyn? The 3000+ is still an an excellent chip, and is STILL a great value.

Now, this price drop though, sure is nice... say hot deal for sure..

 

[ballyn]

Agreed, both are good prices. I would expect the 3000+ to come down as well, though, now that the 3200+ has been reduced. $85 for an extra 512MB of L2 cache plus a HSF and warranty is definitely a good deal.

 

[couzy]

For those of you near a Microcenter, they have the retail 64 3200+ for $271.99
Microcenter 3200+

And here's a review of Athlon 64 3000+ with comparisons to XP 3200+, 64 3200+, P4 3.0 & others. Overall, there seems to be very little difference between 64 3000+ and 64 3200+. 3000+ may be a better value for some of you (myself included)
Athlon 64 3000+ review

 

[Kung Lau]

I was thinking of upgrading my existing XP2500+ to this and new socket 754 mb, but am weighing the feasibility of this.

I know intel has a scale to depict processors in side by side comparision, but did not see anything like that for the AMD chips.

Anyone have a reference how much % or comparitively an Athlon 64 3200+ would be over a XP2500+?

 

[imaklone]

Originally posted by: govtcheez75

Originally posted by: ballyn
Best price I can find for the retail box is $415... Question is will this be a hot price after the new chips/prices are announced. Makes me glad I didn't jump on that 3000+ for $220, tho.

I'm thinking about getting the 3200+ OEM for $275. I think this might be a better value than the 3000+ for $215, but I don't know. The only difference between the two is that the 3000+ has 512mb cache and 3200+ has 1mb. Decisions decisions!

In amdmb.com's review of the 3400+, they show benches where the extra L2 cache on the 3200+ doesn't provide that great of an improvement over the 3000+. Link

 

[aldamon]

Originally posted by: Kung Lau
I was thinking of upgrading my existing XP2500+ to this and new socket 754 mb, but am weighing the feasibility of this.

I know intel has a scale to depict processors in side by side comparision, but did not see anything like that for the AMD chips.

Anyone have a reference how much % or comparitively an Athlon 64 3200+ would be over a XP2500+?

HardOCP included the Athlon XP 3200+ in its review of the Athlon 64 3400+. Of course, the Athlon XP gets "whooped", but when all of the CPUS are damn fast, does it matter? The 1700+ I'm running overclocks by around ~900 Mhz, so I'm holding out for a killer overclocking stepping of the Athlon 64.

 

[cix22]

Originally posted by: couzy
And here's a review of Athlon 64 3000+ with comparisons to XP 3200+, 64 3200+, P4 3.0 & others. Overall, there seems to be very little difference between 64 3000+ and 64 3200+. 3000+ may be a better value for some of you (myself included)
Athlon 64 3000+ review

I was going to say something similar. In all the tests that I'd seen there weren't really any applications that took advantage of the 3200+ extra 512kb of onboard cache. Hopefully with the 3200+ dropping, the 3000+ will drop down to $175 or so, that'd be sweet.

 

[decode]

Originally posted by: ballyn
I would expect the 3000+ to come down as well, though, now that the 3200+ has been reduced.

I would hope so too, but I'm not holding my breath, since AMD only lowered the price on the 3200+, and not the 3000+.

 

[NuNuNYC]

I noticed how Xbit Labs, TomsHardware and several other hardware reviewing sites gave the AMD64 3000+ different benchmarks results as compared to the other AMD64's, XP's, and P4's. TomsHardware shows that the P4 dominates in almost every aspect, while Xbit (and other sites) show the AMD64 3000+ even the P4 3.0 Ghz 800 FSB processor. Does anyone know why there is such a disparity in each reviewer's results? I'm actually trying to decide which CPU to get, AMD64 3000+ (with low probability of future upgrade because of socket change) or Intel P4 3.0 Ghz 800 FSB (which current mobo's will support the Prescott cpu's).

 

[phenderson]

I just received my Athlon 64 3200 from Newegg maybe 7 days ago. Do you think they do price matching?

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: phenderson
I just received my Athlon 64 3200 from Newegg maybe 7 days ago. Do you think they do price matching?

Nope

 

[MikeA]

You can return it to newegg for a refund - restocking fee.

 

[spwango]

Originally posted by: NuNuNYC
I noticed how Xbit Labs, TomsHardware and several other hardware reviewing sites gave the AMD64 3000+ different benchmarks results as compared to the other AMD64's, XP's, and P4's. TomsHardware shows that the P4 dominates in almost every aspect, while Xbit (and other sites) show the AMD64 3000+ even the P4 3.0 Ghz 800 FSB processor. Does anyone know why there is such a disparity in each reviewer's results? I'm actually trying to decide which CPU to get, AMD64 3000+ (with low probability of future upgrade because of socket change) or Intel P4 3.0 Ghz 800 FSB (which current mobo's will support the Prescott cpu's).

I'm in the same boat upgrade wise. I'm going to get the 3000+. As I understand it, the support for the current intel chipset in terms of prescott is a stop gap until they can go to the next socket type--there is quite a bit of quesiton to whether these mobos really will support prescott. From everything I've read, I don't think the current intel socket is anymore of a deadend than the 754 for AMD. Besides, if you believe all the stuff about the new changes that are coming, you are going to want to re-upgrade after this iteration anyway. The 3000+ and a mobo costs less than the 3.0 itself.

 

[Crucial]

The 3000+ and a mobo costs less than the 3.0 itself.

Thank god for AMD.

 

[Jaxidian]

That's a pretty good deal but I still think the A643000+ is a better deal. Either way, I think I'm going to stick with my 1600+ OC'd to 2600+ until MS gets its act together with a 64-bit Extended XP or 2k3 and also for some good boards (none of the current ones are really that impressive). Hell, I may sit on my AXP long enough until A64's are more-easily OCable and come standard with dual-channel. The dual-channel is supposed to be common for all of them sometime this year isn't it?

 

[maxcom]

NuNuNYC Prescott upgrade ?

 

[sheltem]

damn, thats quite a price drop. I just built my friend an Athlon 64 3000+ rig.

 

[phenderson]

Man... I just built my "super system" with Athlon 64 3200.... and I know I paid $414.00 from new egg for it. Would it be right to return the process (granted I woudl have some downtime) and get a refund, then re-order? I would get at least $75.00 back, right?

 

[Chris S]

I picked up the A64 3200+ from Microcenter at lunch. The guy couldn't figure how it could go from 479.99 to 271.99 . Decent prices on boards too, I picked up a Gigabyte K8VNXP for 175, about average on Pricewatch.