AMD Select Processors Price drop happening on 5/26/03

[Reschke]

Processor Price Drop   Effective May 26, 2003!

Dear William,
 
 
AMD announces a price move for select AMD processor  
products effective May 26, 2003.  
   
   
Call your AMD authorized distributor for more details.
 
A list of AMD authorized distributors can be found here.

You can only hope that they are including the high end CPU's. Hell it might be enough that I get to build two systems. One AMD and one Intel.

[boxboy28]

April 22
 May 26
 Change
 
3200+
 -
 464
 -
 
3000+
 325
 265
 (18.5%)
 
2800+
 225
 180
 (20%)
 
2700+
 180
 137
 (23.9%)
 
2600+
 151
 103
 (31.8%)
 
2500+
 124
 89
 (28.2%)
 
2400+
 103
 84
 (18.4%)
 
2200+
 81
 74
 (8.6%)
 
2100+
 79
 74
 (6.3%)
 
2000+
 66
 66
 0%

[Reschke]

Thanks Box. I got that email from AMD yesterday on the expected change but they did not list anything other than what I got.

[Eagler]

are those our costs or the cost if you buy like 100 at a time

[boxboy28]

Heres the articale from DIGITIMES
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2003/05/27&pages=05&seq=23

[LePaul]

Usually that's the price for bulk buyers.

Otherwise, just cruise Pricewatch.Com and see what vendors have the lowest prices

[Reschke]

If you buy from someone like Mwave or Newegg you will get very close to that price right now (pre price drop today). I would wait a few days to see what the actual price ends up at for the larger vendors like them.

I paid $275 for a Barton Core XP3000+ the other day from Newegg. So it should drop a bit more unless they were already rock bottom on the price. If they were then it will allow them a little more margin on those items than they were getting.

[Reschke]

Intel also but prices but only on the Celeron line of CPU's. No cuts were done to the P4 line at all but a 2.4Ghz Celeron is now $84.