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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (189543)	3/13/2006 2:43:48 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: For instance, an Athlon 64 3000 at tiger direct sells for $129. A P4 2.66 Mhz sells for $119. I have 2 systems at home each with one of these processors, and they seem to have same performance. In terms of performance an Athlon 64 3000+ is about four speed grades ahead of the 2.66GHz P4. Looking at the other end of the A64/P4 spectrum the Athlon 64 3800+ under $300 and 4000+ at just over $300 perform as well or better than a ~$600 3.8GHz Pentium 4 670.

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (189543)	3/13/2006 3:36:09 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

eracer gave a good answer, but even going by AMD's performance rating, a P4 2.66 GHz is no match for a 3000+ Athon 64. From newegg, here's what I found for 3 Ghz and 3.2 GHz performance levels: Intel . AMD . P4 GHz Model # Price Model # Price 3.0 630 $174 3000+ $120 3.2 640 $218 3200+ $159 Bear in mind that AMD's speed ratings are very conservative and that AMD's OEM discount is higher, at least in percentage terms. However, there is evidence of Intel's newly-aggressive pricing at newegg.com: Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor Model BX80551PE2666FN - Retail $134 (one day sale) This is the kind of price slashing I expect Intel to do. Not everything, but extremely targeted. They know AMD doesn't have enough capacity to sell dual-core chips at $134, so they are packaging a couple of otherwise-unsellable Prescott die into a single package. Petz