AMD Prices going up?

[flyswatter]

AMD 3200+ Winchester at Monarch was $179 yesterday. Today it's $195. Link

Isn't the prices suppose to go down after Christmas? Hence the new year. I should have bought it yesterday. (too busy with taking down Christmas junk)

I just built my dad a P4 3.2E last month from Outpost for $209 and that thing was fast even with the crappy ECS board.

I need to upgrade my 1.7 Celeron and my old Intel 866MHZ which I use for video. (takes 6 hours to encode a full video)

Anyone know if the AMD winchester chips going to drop in prices? Outpost has their P4 3.2E at $209 again and it 's getting tempting every moment. I thought I made up my mind to buy AMD because the Prescott gets hot and I just didn't want another computer to double as a heater during the hot Texas summer just like the old Cyrix PR166 I built many years ago.

 

[clarkey01]

Supply and demand, there are starting to shift quite a few now, nowhere near amazing but I think they will start turning more capacity over to Athlon 64's. I would hazzed a guess that AXP's, AXPM, Opterons are what takes up most of the capacity at FAB 30. With IBM's fab in east fishkill and that "other" deal with them Jap folk in the new year they should have tons more capacity, hence one would hope for , lower prices.

 

[neonerd]

i've noticed the prices fluctuating quite a bit

 

[crazyjeeper]

I have been watching their 3200+ for like a month now. It was around $190 for a week, then down to $179, then back up to $195, then dropped to $179 right before Christmas, then BAM! $195 the Monday after Christmas. So much for the after Christmas Sale huh... I did their fancy schmancy saved quote thing where they honor the price for 7 days and got it at the $179 price. A couple of days later, it went back down to 179, then back up again right after the new year... so much for those 1st of the year sales too... (see a pattern yet?) I don't know if it's holiday driven, supply/demand driven, some funky pricing scheme they're working on, or just them screwing around trying to get people to buy them or what...
I'd give it a few days, it'll probably drop back down to $179 again. LOL!

 

[evilbix]

AMD's are just becoming a viable option to the mainstream. It's no longer an enthusiast chip.

Whatever the market will bear, they will charge it. AMD has consistantly gone up in price since the relase of the 64's. The old XP chips used to be much cheaper than their comparative P4. Such as the 2500 barton would be a hell of a lot cheaper than a 2.56 northwood b. Now it isn't such a huge gap, it's closing quickly.