u mean affect the proc FSB in which way?

Where's the cheapest place to get vista retail??? Any promos in town?

1GB KINGSTON DDRII533/667 SODIMM =RM 210.

Price is expected to drop further ...below RM 200...

This post has been edited by piscesguy: Mar 20 2007, 09:06 PM

gotta grab them as soon the price below RM200, especially when it is RM190 or RM180 maybe last saturday RM199 for Kingston 667 1GB at ViewNet. Don't know if it has increase or decrease this week

wat?? 1gb DDR2 667 ram for 210?? where??

Aiyoyo..I have no intention to upgrade now but these DDR2 prices are seriously tempting me.....

So far, i know PcZone, CZone, Cycom offer this price for DDR2 667 1GB....

That price for notebook RAM or desktop?

The price you see is from the pricelist get from lowyat? I check the pricelist from lowyat.net seem not getting the price wor... maybe they have not update it yet...

how bout the price of DDR400?1G?

Man,its really hard to get cheap rams.i feel that they are kinda overpriced.

im going 4 kingston 667 ddr2 value ram
wats the price 4 a 1gb stick??

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Added on March 22, 2007, 3:51 pmdoes 1gb of ram n 2gb of ram make a lot of differencez??

This post has been edited by chokchunynh: Mar 22 2007, 03:51 PM

Visit this thread...

if you wish to upgrade to vista, i'd definitely recommend 2gb

2gb for vista is recommend only....zzzz 4GB is well done. cause if you play today games, now games also memory sucker!

hi all, new in town.

jus wanna ask u guys opinion,
do u guys think tat RAM price will drop during PC fair??

It will but don't expect major drop

eih...i tot only RM235 now?

guys, hold on to your angpao money/salary/etc for a few weeks if u are going to get an x2 proc.

AMD price drop

AMD price drop
Posted by Michael on 23 Mar 2007 - 16:17 0 comments

AMD today sent it's solution provider partners a graphic that displays the reduction of price for AMD processors.

The new suggested prices are effective as of April 9, 2007 for desktop processors.

The AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ will see a 49% reduction in price and the 5600+ a 43% reduction in price. So if you are in the market for a new AMD system, wait three weeks as prices are going down and check newegg as the prices tend to drop there the fastest.

For a complete list of price reductions view the graphic below.




AMD dual-core processors scratching $100 mark

AMD dual-core processors scratching $100 mark

Columbus (OH) - This week marks the 25th week since we began looking at processor pricing back in October. We've seen an unprecedented erosion of CPU pricing over this time frame and there's more news this week: AMD's X2 processors have arrived in the entry-level arena of processor prices.

If you have been following our ongoing processor price/performance series, then it is no secret to you that we have been watching AMD very closely. While Intel continues to just have minor blips, AMD continues to shift around its place in the market. A few weeks ago we talked about the fact that AMD's lower-end processors were setting new record low prices. Today that went even further, especially for the 4200+, which fell a whopping 30% from last week.

Over the past couple weeks, processor pricing was more or less stable, especially with the 4200+, which only shifted $9 from March 2 to March 9 and then $11 from March 9 to March 16. This week, however, the average price fell $45 from $150 to $105. This is lowest week-to-week drop we've seen for the 4200+.

This is also crucial, because the 4200+ is a dual-core processor, and the move to the $100 range is a testament of just how competitive AMD is willing to get to rival Intel, if this turns out to be a continuing trend.

Just to clarify, we're looking at the 4200+ with the 90 nm Windsor core and AM2 socket. We are unable to break out whether this the 65 watt or 89 watt version of the processor - both models are in the market and anyone considering AMD X2 processors should be taking the extra effort to find out from the online store which version will be purchased.

Regardless the power consumption rating, the 4200+ exemplifies the pressure on AMD in the current market environment, given the firm's decision to battle for each and everyt point of market share.

Looking back at a bit of history, AMD announced a huge official price drop in July of last year. On July 24, the firm countered Intel's huge price drops for the Pentium D series for the first time and knocked the 4200+ street price from about $360 to around $200. Even in our inaugural price/performance article on October 6, 2006, the 4200+ still rang in at $192. This average e-tail price drop marks nearly a 50% decline from what was already a massive drop last year, making it about a third of what it was before July 2006.

The 4600+ also saw a massive average price drop this week, going from $200 to $124, a 38% week-to-week decrease, and nearly half of what it was at the beginning of the month. For this processor, we're also looking at the AM2 socket.

Curiously, though, the processor sandwiched in between these two, the 4400+, did not follow this trend. In fact, it jumped in price by $39, marking a 15% week-to-week increase from $255 to $294. It's not quite the $362 we saw for the 4400+ last month, but it's certainly one of the highest we've recorded. Our suggestion would be to stay away from the 4400+ for now.

The bottom line here is that if you want to build or upgrade your computer, go for the 4200+ or 4600+. The 4600+, at an average price of $124, offers about the same performance as an Intel Pentium D 960, which is going for about $372 right now. There is no denying that X2 processors are the way to go these days, especially for mainstream machines that are built with the intention to run Windows Vista.

On that subject, the 5600+ and 6000+ are also looking not to bad. Prices on these two newest processors have been very competitive since they first went on sale about a month ago. The two are now both below their respective tray prices. When looking at corresponding processors, in terms of performance, on the Intel side, the prices are giving Intel a run for its money.

An AMD processor you're obviously going to want to avoid is the FX-60, which carries the notoriously most volatile price in our records. This week is soared 50% from last week, and claimed the highest price we've seen on it over the past 25 weeks, nearing $1000. The FX-60 is part of a dying breed for AMD, so it's on its last legs, and we suspect this dynamic shift is just a result of the bottom falling out from the pool of online retailers.

Also of note are reports that AMD may be announcing official price drops of its 90 nm processors, which could drive related prices down by as much as 30% in the first couple weeks of April.

On the Intel side, there's some good news for entry-level PC makers. The Pentium D 820 hit the lowest price we've seen, crossing the $100 barrier to $91. Expect the $399 class of PCs to integrate dual-core processors from Intel and AMD before the end of Q2 of this year. However, besides this event, there's nothing really that exciting from Intel this week.

We've been watching the QX6700 climb continuously over the past five weeks. On February 16, we saw it at an average of $988, about $12 below the tray price. That was the right time to get into Intel's top-end processor, as the price has gone up non-stop ever since. It's back to $1060 this week, a level it hasn't been at since last year.

In a complete reversal of fortune, the processor right under the QX6700, the EX6800, has been falling every week for the past three weeks, falling 8% ($84) from where it was on March 2. However, we would suggest not to jump on this price just yet. We've seen prices much lower than this on the EX6800 before. Plus, keep in mind that Intel's FSB1333 processors are lining up for launch, which means that this FSB800 generation could get cheaper in the not too distant future.

Every week from December 29 to February 9, we recorded a price lower than $950. Also, kind of surprisingly, our record low on the EX6800 is $921, which was set way back on October 20. Since then, we've noticed a strange cyclical pattern in the processor's price. Fairly constantly, it will climb up to the $1000+ range and then fall to $950 or so. If the past is any indication, the EX6800 could fall even more next week and the weeks thereafter.

Nine of the 15 Intel processors on our list this week had prices that were closer to the record min than the record max, and none of them set a new record max, so there's no processor for Intel that really is a bomb this week. However, there's certainly nothing that's extremely notable. This seems to be the norm for Intel, as it still remains solid in the market.



This post has been edited by awh85: Mar 25 2007, 05:03 AM

plan to buy penium d 935 processor... buy if AMD drop price.. i dun mind to buy it.. but wondering which Amd's should i compare with pentium d 935?