[Zephon]

Intel is planning to cut down their Desktop cpus in the begging of next year, together with the release of the P4 Northwood.

CPU NewPrice Old Price Cut

Pentium 4 (0.13 micron Northwood)
2.2GHz $560 $610 8%
2.0GHz $364 $420 13%

Pentium 4 (0.18 micron Willamette)
2.0GHz $340 $401 15%
1.9GHz $240 $273 12%
1.8GHz $193 $225 14%
1.7GHz $163 $193 15.5%
1.6GHz $133 $163 18%

Link for the complete article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/22922.html

 

[Prafull]

It looks like whenever it happens would be the right time for me to upgrade.

 

[FireGL]

It looks like whenever it happens would be the right time for me to upgrade.

you dont like amd??

 

[Sylvan Sorrow]

I like AMD, much better, gunna upgrade someday, I only have a athlon 800 with my 640 megs of RAM< and almost all 6 of my PCI slots on my motherboard are filled, I need more slots

 

[Zephon]

Originally posted by Ryoga
I like AMD, much better, gunna upgrade someday, I only have a athlon 800 with my 640 megs of RAM< and almost all 6 of my PCI slots on my motherboard are filled, I need more slots

6 PCI slots filled? What do you have in your pc?

 

[Sylvan Sorrow]

welll, my vid card is AGP. But I have, a soundcard, DVD decoder, another sound card, TV Tuner, USB expansion (I do have 8 USB slots too, only 2 in use), and Ethernet card.

 

[Prafull]

Originally posted by FireGL


you dont like amd??

No.I dont.

Actually I got amd k6 2 -500 mhz just for two days.Didnt like that.Never tried another amd again.May be with this upgrade I will give it a thought.

 

[fivefeet8]

I am definenately gonna get an amd processor again.. Probably an amd tbird XP sometime next year.. I bet amd cpu prices will be lower than those pentium prices you put there.. You can get an amd tbird C-1.4 gig 266 mhz fsb for 120 bucks right now which can kick the P4 1.6 gig's ass up and down the benchmarks and games..

 

[Zephon]

Originally posted by Ryoga
welll, my vid card is AGP. But I have, a soundcard, DVD decoder, another sound card, TV Tuner, USB expansion (I do have 8 USB slots too, only 2 in use), and Ethernet card.

Why do you have 2 sound cards, Ryoga?

prafull: AMD's processors have changed a lot since K6-2 time. It's much better now, and considering the price, it's really worth it. I'm neutral about this AMD vs Intel conflict, but I really think AMD is a step ahead from Intel.

 

[FireGL]

yup amd is a must coz its a combination of cisc and risc instruction