In article <1140311560.553337.89820@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.c om>,
says
Like it says, when will we stop seeing 165s one the price
lists? And, when it disappears off the charts, how much will an
170 or higher cost at that time? Will prices continue to trend
steadily upward as supply dwindles, or would the prudent buyer be
smarter waiting for prices to go down instead of acquiring one now at
today's price? 170 $405 -- worth two 3500+s? Is it likely
that the 180 will drop in price to $128 shipped when AM2 is
unveiled (and, presumably, 3rdgen sckt 939 boards are still available
for very cheap)?
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Why the hell do you want one? They're a server CPU. They're not going
to make your games run faster than a X2.

In article <SQ%Jf.286$2V3.34@fe07.lga>, Cal Vanize says

You might be thinking of the original series of socket 940
chips. These were designed for servers. The current batch of Denmark
and Venus Socket 939 are high-performance workstation or client
CPUs. They are of similar design to the San Diego Athlon 64s and Athlon
X2 Toledos but seem to run at slightly lower voltages and easily overclock.

The 165 is of particular interest because it is a 2 x 1mb cache
dual core CPU that can be very easily overclocked to 2.7ghz. The
165's price is lower than the entry Athlon X2 CPU with the same cache
though the 165 has a lower clock speed. But if it can be easily oc'ed
to a fast speed, its basic clock speed doesn't matter much.

I stand corrected. Jeez, its getting hard to keep up with all the cores
nowadays.

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:26:35 -0800, andrew.gullans wrote:

So, will prices on Dual Core S939 go down before retailers
exhaust their supplies. Although the rumor that AMD is discontinuing
production of 939s is likely false, it is founded on the rumor
that AMD has stopped shipping s939 to resellers & retailers.

How much will prices fall?

So, *when* should I buy my 175? Next month? June? September?

Try now. If you need it, get it. AMD had their regular price cut last
month and just had a big price drop on 940 pin dual-cores. I can't
imagine anything else will happen for a few months.

And just to show you I will put my money where my mouth is, I just
assembled a new 175 system a few days ago as an upgrade from my
aging dual MP2800 system. A Tyan K8E, 2 Gigs of ECC DDR-400 (non-reg) and
a 175. Very nice. I get the new video card I'll check, but I
believe the power consumption (and heat output) is less with the new
system which is nice because it certainly has more punch.