How long before we see A64's and mobo's for under $100

[ral]

I was wondering how long before we see A64's (S754) and motherboards (S754) for US$100 (each)?

[BIGDADDY51]

The prices are dropping slowly, so I would venture a guess towards the end of 2004 we might see this. BD51

[BWM]

Thats a heck of a wait!

I'll either break down and spring for it first, or show up at UA.

[BIGDADDY51]

I was all for a new Hammer build, until I read that newsletter today. By building a Hammer now, you just may wind up with a build that won't have much upgrading to it. I believe they are in the midst of changing over to PCI express ,and BTX standards, and it may just be better to wait a bit, and see what happens price wise with the early hAMMER STUFF. They mentioned in that newsletter that by Q2 the new generation PCI video cards are gonna hit the market. Can the new BTX boards be far behind? Ya gotta have SOMETHING to plug those new cards into. When they finally implement PCI Express , they will leave earlier Hammer builds in the dust. JMO, BD51

[BWM]

Good points BD. No point in crippling an A64 with existing PCI/AGP etc busses so I'll wait for more appropriately designed boards to appear.

[BIGDADDY51]

I'm just hoping the the ATX vs BTX design change isn't so drastic that it is gonna reqire a new case to use BTX boards. With Intel on the verge of releasing GEN5 cpus, I think we are in for a world of changes in rapid succession in the coming year. BD51 EDIT: I was just checking out Micro ATX boards over at Newegg GIGABYTE offers a socket 754 K8T800 motherboard for just $97. I guess we are halfway there already. LOL BD51 SHUTTLE now has a CUBE that uses the Hammer too.

[ral]

Looks like we may hold on to our S462's for long time. Maybe I better improve on what I have a bit more.

[bigheadache]

Don't know about the boards, but I doubt the CPUs will be cheap until they move to 90nm. Price is a function of yields.

[ral]

Read this at X-bit labs.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...212131528.html

To summarize the facts known about desktop AMD64 products, there will be no 64-bit processors with single-channel DDR controller in AMD lineup introduced after the Q2 2004. Moreover, all Socket 939 microprocessor are expected to feature 1000MHz HyperTransport bus; it effectively means that all AMD64 processors will begin to get faster bus starting from early Q2 2004.

So many changes.

I am okay with Socket 754, looks like it will be around for some time. But I guess I would want 0.09 micron chip since I can't imagine that the 0.13 micron 64 and 64 FX's will overclock too well So that means wating for the second half of 2004... and than waiting for the prices to go down a bit.

But lets see how much of a gain 64 bit software will give us.

I might wind up holding on to my Athlon XP till 2005... that a long time.

[ral]

And those K8T800 boards don't have a AGP/PCI lock

[halcy]

ECS 755-A2 (SIS 755), socket 754



$80USD
http://tinyurl.com/2fqc9

Not a board I'd buy, but already under $100. The chipset is the best socket 754 chipset currently available, with fast AGP, PCI/AGP locks and no problems with IDE transfers. It's just that the manufacturer (ECS) leaves something to be desired

I'm guessing that by the time Athlon 64 2800+ has been on the market for some time, it'll start to sell near $100 USD. Perhaps Q2/2004.

regards,
Halcyon