Intel & AMD cut prices

[Julio Franco]

Chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) recently announced price cuts on their processor lines for desktops and servers/workstations, with discounts reaching as high as 21% for Intel and 31.8% for AMD.

If you were planning on investing in a new CPU you may want to wait a couple of days until prices settle and get a better price. With the price cuts in mind, I would say the best value can be got from the P4 2.53GHz and AthlonXPs 2700+ & 2400+.

I certainly miss the AMD bandwagon somewhat after I switched to a Pentium 4 a couple of months ago, in the other hand, both Thomas and Derek (P66) are enjoying their new shining XP CPUs .

 

[Arris]

Can't beat my 2100+ Tbred B (I know I keep going on about it) @ 2.2Ghz (2700+) for £70!

 

[Cucumber]

Nice OC there Arris...not quite as high as this bloke here though
XP2100 OverClock

Come on Arris, you can get that

 

[Arris]

Originally posted by Cucumber
Nice OC there Arris...not quite as high as this bloke here though
XP2100 OverClock

Come on Arris, you can get that

3.3Ghz
I'll maybe wire mod the socket and adjust the multiplier up a bit and get to 2.4-2.6Ghz, might even suffer my Delta scremer on the heatsink for a while just to see what this chip will do. But I don't want to scare my bank account by investing in LN2 cooling and water cooling. Although I might start eyeing up watercooling kits

Also notice the site Only4Pro, and I don't consider myself a pro

 

[Cucumber]

Yeps..watercooling the way to go IMO. Ordering all the parts on Monday, and im currently in the process of designing blocks for CPU/Gfx Core/Nforce2 NB

...getting myself a 1700+ aswell, one of the people i know over at xtremesystems.org got his 1700+ to 2940mhz using plain watercooling

Nice homemade block too...

...need to get myself in on the action ...can't see my block being quite that good though

 

[Arris]

You have the tools or access to the tools to make your own blocks??

 

[Cucumber]

You have the tools or access to the tools to make your own blocks??

Yep ...my 6th form technology project is based on Water-Cooling my PC. So i have full access to all milling machines etc.