Friday, June 12th 2009
AMD Preparing Phenom II TWKR for Enthusiast Market
AMD tasted a bit of success with its Phenom II series of processors, which reflected in recent market share figures, where the company's share grew by around 5 percent, despite a fall in sales throughout the PC processor industry. Leading its pack currently, is the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition, which holds a full-featured 45 nm Deneb core with unlocked bus multiplier, and AM3 platform support. It seems like AMD isn't stopping at this. The company is preparing a new model targeted at the enthusiast segment, called Phenom II TWKR ("tweaker").
High-end PC manufacturer Maingear PC has reportedly received this chip in a display model form, and looks forward to incorporating it in its lineup of PCs. Very little is known at this point in time, about this chip, beyond the point that it will provide better clock-speeds compared to the Phenom II X4 955. We can tell that it retains the AM3 socket package from the looks of it, and comes in a pretty jewel-case. AMD is yet to announce the chip, or disclose more about how it plans to sell it, and at what price.
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High-end PC manufacturer Maingear PC has reportedly received this chip in a display model form, and looks forward to incorporating it in its lineup of PCs. Very little is known at this point in time, about this chip, beyond the point that it will provide better clock-speeds compared to the Phenom II X4 955. We can tell that it retains the AM3 socket package from the looks of it, and comes in a pretty jewel-case. AMD is yet to announce the chip, or disclose more about how it plans to sell it, and at what price.
98 Comments on AMD Preparing Phenom II TWKR for Enthusiast Market
But you know, it was worth every penny at the time. Intel's are never worth the markup.
And to further support my point, Intel was countering with the Pentium 4/Ds at the time which were vastly inferior (AMD had a far greater lead than Intel does now at the time) and still charged the same or more for the Extreme and regular CPUs.
Here are the launch prices of Athlon64 X2: www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-x2_3.html
For FX 57, and 55 (notice that 57 displaced 55 from its price)
www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzg3
For FX 60:
www.guru3d.com/article/amd-athlon-64-fx60-processor-/
Get your facts straight.
More than that, Intel priced their Extreme Editions in the $1k+ range and their regular lines at comprable prices at the same era and their CPUs couldn't even begin to compete.... and you'd actually pay that too. So you get the idea?
Plus, AMDs marketing plans have changed since then if you've been following (you haven't). The idea now is to release chips that are affordable, and in the event that their next chip puts them on top, it will be cheap to produce, and in turn will be a whole lot cheaper to buy.
Edit: Correction its over $1200 :eek:
www.i-store.com.au/product/?productid=5472
I have to shop online, at the same stores that everyone else has available to them... I can't even buy a CPU so it has nothing to do with getting lucky.
When AMD was on top those FX's were going for $1k. I'm sure not long ago those Socket F FX's for quadfather were selling at those prices.
Fact is that when these companies; Intel and AMD, get the chance they will sell those cpu's for as much as they can because someone will buy them.
However bta is NOT right as my experience has proven him wrong. Talk to me about retail prices all day I could care less, but unless you're so rich you just don't care you shouldn't expect to pay them anyway.
My first build was in 2004 with a Athlon 64 3200. I remember that year and for the next couple years that AMD's FX processors were out of my reach monetarily. I remember that the cost of a FX cpu was over a $1,000.00 and I dreamed of being able to afford those processors. So I do not understand what you are referring to.
If AMD had a cpu that could compete at the highest level, they would still be charging $1000 for them. But the fact of the matter is, they do not have a cpu capable of competing up top, so they can only charge what the market is willing. And as the i7 920 is faster than all of the current AMD offerings, they have no choice but to charge what they are currently.
The only one wrong and out of line here is you.