Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: BB Gun on October 28, 2003, 01:55:24 PM
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HardOCP (http://www.hardocp.com) news... scroll down to the first edition for today...
Posted by Steve 5:51 AM (CST)
Intel & AMD Price Cuts:
Now this is the kind of news I like, both Intel & AMD have price cuts on the way, just in time for the holidays. The high end stuff got the biggest cuts, but it makes them 3GHz CPUs a reality for most of us now at $275 compared to the well over $400 range it was before.
Intel reduced the cost of its Pentium 4 desktop chips by between 7 percent and 35 percent on Sunday, with the most expensive chips receiving the biggest whack. The 3.2GHz Pentium 4 dropped from $637 in volume quantities to $417, a 35 percent drop, while the 3GHz Pentium 4 with an 800MHz system bus declined from $417 to $278, a 33 percent reduction.
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Wow, that's pretty substantial.
Remember when the 1.0Ghz Pentium III's were going for $1500 when they first came out?
Gotta love the way prices drop on hardware through the years. :)
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Both Intel and AMD really cut prices on the high end CPUs. AMD also cut the price of the 2500+ by $10, which makes it an absolute steal.