AMD's X85 CPUs; ATI X1900 Price cuts

[Waphlez]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30066

There are going to be three new dual core proccessors, all running at 2.6GHz, the 185, 285, and the 885. The 885 is at the ridiculous price of $2,145 USD. The 285 however is priced about the same as the FX-60 and the 185 isn't priced yet (and should cost less then the FX-60. The good thing about this is current CPUs price will drop.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30078

This is some great news, especially since I'm buying an X1900XT soon. Newegg is going to be selling X1900XTX in OEM versions for $499. Hopfully this will drop the X1900XT down to somewhere down to somewhere around 400 bucks or less since Newgg is selling OEMs at 450 bucks. Nvidia's going to have to do something otherwise ATI is going to pull ahead.

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

good finds beefcake!

Ryan

 

[Lord AnthraX]

The 885 is at the ridiculous price of $2,145 USD

thats more then my whole PC........wait whats the diffrence between the 3 if they are all running at 2.6?....

 

[aliasaid]

my guess is one would have 512kb l2 cache*2, the other 1mb*2, and the most expensive, 2mb*2!! KABOOM!

 

[Waphlez]

I will have to say that an extra 2mb l2 cache is not worth an extra $1,100 dollars. And dual core opterons never went under 1mb cache per core but there could be chance that is what they are doing.

 

[SHAWN]

I hope the prices drop alot cause I am waiting to purchase a CPU, Motherboard, and RAM. Everything else I bought already.

Nice find BTW

 

[Vybuni]

Re: Re: AMD's X85 CPUs; ATI X1900 Price cuts

thats more then my whole PC........wait whats the diffrence between the 3 if they are all running at 2.6?....

The difference between the 185, 285 and 885 (and all 1xx, 2xx, and 8xx) opterons is scalability. With the 185 or other 1xx opteron, you can have only one CPU. With the 285 (and 2xx), you can use two together and with the 885 (and 8xx), you can use 4. The 2xx and 8xx are only used in servers.

 

[Green Radience]

Haha, that was amusing, you guys not knowing what the Opteron 2xx and 8xx were, heh. Yea, 4 x Opteron 885 in one system... Thats 8 cores right there. 8 cores fugging at 2.6GHz each.

 

[cobalt817]

yeah, supermultitasking, great for servers. waste of time for a standard PC.