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To: Petz who wrote (212830)	10/6/2006 4:42:17 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"Don't you think AMD can make socket F chips as cheaply as AM2 chips, or nearly so?" The packages and sockets are going to be significantly more expensive.

To: Petz who wrote (212830)	10/6/2006 4:54:29 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: Why is this an issue? Don't you think AMD can make socket F chips as cheaply as AM2 chips, or nearly so? I would doubt that the silicon inside a socket F Opteron is any different that the CPU chip inside an Athlon 64 X2. It is a marketing decision, not a technical one, for AMD to decide how low down the price curve Socket F chips for 4x4 will be sold. Many people hoped that an AM2 4x4 motherboard meant that AMD was entertaining the idea of making a dual-socket system affordable for the masses in the near future. For ~$500 the enthusiast crowd could buy two A64 X2 CPUs and motherboard to build their own 4-core system, or they could take an AM2 CPU from their current 1S desktop system and use it as part of an upgrade. Retail systems could sell for as little as $1000. I'm guessing that a pair of 2.6GHz FX-70 CPUs are going to sell for close to $800. That type of pricing eliminates most of AMD's potential 2S desktop market.