Quad FX on sale

[Furen]

I'm not sure if it's a price error or something but AMD Quad FX CPUs are remarkably cheap at newegg, though the motherboard is still around $430 bucks.

The FX-70 is $350, the FX-72 is $450 and the FX-74 is $550. I'd assume these are in matched pairs, as AMD will not be selling these individually. While the FX-74 draws a whole lot of power because of its high clock and vCore, I have no doubt we'll see significant power-draw reductions with the lower-end parts.

Of course, I'm not interested in buying these chips for myself, I'm just putting it out there in case anyone IS interested.

EDIT: Now that I look at the boxes closely, they seem to be the same size as a single-CPU box. So we might be looking at a single FX CPU that can be used in pairs instead of a pair of FX CPUs.

 

[n19htmare]

The are one per case.....

you must buy them in pairs for 4x4 to work.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Yeah, you need two procs for4x4 to work. I don't suggest getting it since they are power hungry, only good for servers, and they require a 300+ mobo.

 

[aka1nas]

I thought the whole point of it was they sold you both chips in one box. They aren't really useful by themselves, especially in the quadFX board as you need both sockets populated to use more than 2 sticks of RAM.

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
I thought the whole point of it was they sold you both chips in one box. They aren't really useful by themselves, especially in the quadFX board as you need both sockets populated to use more than 2 sticks of RAM.

Why couldn't you use them alone? Are they a different socket that wont work on other boards?

I am not very familiar with it, and let truth be known it is because I am not interested in whole hair brain scheme...

I think they would have been better served to come out with cheaper dual core boards and 2xx opterons...or just throw together a "smithfield" attempt like INtel did but with a quad core....

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: aka1nas
I thought the whole point of it was they sold you both chips in one box. They aren't really useful by themselves, especially in the quadFX board as you need both sockets populated to use more than 2 sticks of RAM.

Why couldn't you use them alone? Are they a different socket that wont work on other boards?

I am not very familiar with it, and let truth be known it is because I am not interested in whole hair brain scheme...

I think they would have been better served to come out with cheaper dual core boards and 2xx opterons...or just throw together a "smithfield" attempt like INtel did but with a quad core....

Or throw together a "kentsfield" attempt like intel did with quad core?

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: aka1nas
I thought the whole point of it was they sold you both chips in one box. They aren't really useful by themselves, especially in the quadFX board as you need both sockets populated to use more than 2 sticks of RAM.

Why couldn't you use them alone? Are they a different socket that wont work on other boards?

I am not very familiar with it, and let truth be known it is because I am not interested in whole hair brain scheme...

I think they would have been better served to come out with cheaper dual core boards and 2xx opterons...or just throw together a "smithfield" attempt like INtel did but with a quad core....

They are socket L like the new Opterons, but the Quad FX platform doesn't require ECC on the RAM so I don't know about compatability with other socket L boards.

 

[Furen]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
They are socket L like the new Opterons, but the Quad FX platform doesn't require ECC on the RAM so I don't know about compatability with other socket L boards.

New Opterons are socket F, these are socket L. I'm not sure if there's an actual difference but AMD calls them different things.

 

[lopri]

Well, I think it's more of NewEgg gauging per usual. AMD's MSRPs are $999 for FX-74 pair, $799 for FX-72 pair, and $699 for FX-70 pair. So as you can see, the Egg first trying out $50 extra per CPU, or $100 per pair and from there on it'll be a game of supply/demand. If initial demand isn't too high (very likely), they'll quickly lower the price to the MSRP level. Since these are niche products as well as self-competing with Opterons, AMD won't make a lot of them so the price will probably stay around the MSRPs.

 

[lopri]

Just saw the ASUS board is available also. Through the generous 'Combo deal' you can save $20 off the board + CPU + some case. NewEgg ROCKS. There is even a review from a user who sounds quite tech-savvy. That review reads very real - a must read for anyone who's actually thinking of this whole 4x4 thingy. Craziness.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Furen

Originally posted by: aka1nas
They are socket L like the new Opterons, but the Quad FX platform doesn't require ECC on the RAM so I don't know about compatability with other socket L boards.

New Opterons are socket F, these are socket L. I'm not sure if there's an actual difference but AMD calls them different things.

Oops, sorry about that.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: lopri
Just saw the ASUS board is available also. Through the generous 'Combo deal' you can save $20 off the board + CPU + some case. NewEgg ROCKS. There is even a review from a user who sounds quite tech-savvy. That review reads very real - a must read for anyone who's actually thinking of this whole 4x4 thingy. Craziness.

I feel sorry for the one guy who actually bought the board and left that review. For those who don't want to navigate to it themselves:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131146

What's amusing is that so many proponents of QuadFX at paper-launch said "benchmark it in a 64-bit OS!". Surprise surprise, the board has issued in XP-64. Who'd a thunk it.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX

Originally posted by: lopri
Just saw the ASUS board is available also. Through the generous 'Combo deal' you can save $20 off the board + CPU + some case. NewEgg ROCKS. There is even a review from a user who sounds quite tech-savvy. That review reads very real - a must read for anyone who's actually thinking of this whole 4x4 thingy. Craziness.

I feel sorry for the one guy who actually bought the board and left that review. For those who don't want to navigate to it themselves:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131146

What's amusing is that so many proponents of QuadFX at paper-launch said "benchmark it in a 64-bit OS!". Surprise surprise, the board has issued in XP-64. Who'd a thunk it.

$430 for a motherboard?
Good lord...

 

[Furen]

It can be had for around $360 from less-know retailers. Newegg is gouging the hell out of Quad-FX, which is hardly surprising considering it's one of the few companies actually carrying it. From what I've seen, ASUS set the MSRP at $350 or so.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Even $350 is too much for a board that buggy.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX
Even $350 is too much for a board that buggy.

And people thought the Core 2 Duo boards were pricey

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX
Even $350 is too much for a board that buggy.

And people thought the Core 2 Duo boards were pricey

Ahahaha...

Anyways, I think this moronic thing actually makes Core 2 Duo look MORE attractive in comparison. Kinda funny.

The idea of 2 power hungry dual-core A64's that require a $400 motherboard to run sounds less than great to me.