[H]OT! AMD FX-55 $139.99

[nobody_here]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103526

courtesy of the Inq :D

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36508

[nickanderson]

They've been going for around this on ebay for awhile.

[Glow]

They've been going for around this on ebay for awhile.
was posted on here over a month ago too. Still a pretty good deal

[J-Mag]

Talk about depreciation...

Anyone remember when the FX-55 was released?

[nas82]

I got one a couple weeks ago, I came from a 3000+ 1.8ghz, there is a difference indeed in everything I do.

I purchased this to hold me over til I do a major system upgrade sometime next summer.

[nobody_here]

I got one a couple weeks ago, I came from a 3000+ 1.8ghz, there is a difference indeed in everything I do.

I purchased this to hold me over til I do a major system upgrade sometime next summer.

thats what i was thinking....i want to build a crappy little system just for the wife to have to surf the web and check email, at this price, why not have a fast CPU for the same money as a slow one right?

[Rob Black]

I will buy it when its $99

[decade146]

thats what i was thinking....i want to build a crappy little system just for the wife to have to surf the web and check email, at this price, why not have a fast CPU for the same money as a slow one right?

amd 64 athlons like the 3200+ which are very fast processors will be more than suitable. In real world performance Mhz are not noticeable. Remember its all just a numbers game lol. Here and there extra few frames etc...Just defrag your hard disk often. They are more than half the cost.

Anyways I wanted to say these are gaming chips and it won't be worth buying if you plan on buying games in the spring. A lot of games in 2007 will require atleasta dual core. Unless you plan on playing last gen games then by all means go ahead.

Also my opteron 146 still clocks 400Mhz fast then this at stock. Overclockers go pick that one up and you'll still even pay half the price.

[Down8]

So games are going to go from not supporting dual-core at all right to requiring dual-core? Riiiight.... :rolleyes:

-bZj

[SofaKing]

i got one of these puppies a few weeks ago :D

[ViolentPacification]

better deal?

4000+ oem @ $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103528

[Nexx]

better deal?

4000+ oem @ $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103528

i would say so. considering you could pick up a decent board for the $60.00 difference.

[GlimmerMan]

A lot of games in 2007 will require atleasta dual core. Unless you plan on playing last gen games then by all means go ahead.

Wrong. Making dual-core a requirement is a good way to kill sales. Won't happen as long as there is still a good number of single-core PCs out there.
Multi-threaded games will still work on single-core PCs, just the performance is not great.
By the time mult-threaded games is really here, quad-cores will be mainstream. Value is designing and coding their next engine for quad-core. Which means dual-core will be considered obsolete then.

And this is an awesome deal. The second best single-core at budget price.

[sethmo]

So would the FX-55 justify the extra cost vs the 4000+ posted above? Both have 1mb L2 cache and Im sure the 4000+ would be able to O/C to 2.6GHz no problem. I currrently have a 3000+ 754 Sempron and want something better. :)

[KingPing]

great deal for sure :)

[Varmint]

What was this at Newegg before today? I think it was $129.

Not sure about the price, but the FX chips are unlocked, that's why they're worth buying, for some people anyway. Just change the multiplier from 13x to 15x and bingo, 3 GHz.

[adam7488]

amd 64 athlons like the 3200+ which are very fast processors will be more than suitable. In real world performance Mhz are not noticeable. Remember its all just a numbers game lol. Here and there extra few frames etc...Just defrag your hard disk often. They are more than half the cost.

You say the AMD Athlon 3200+ is more than sutiable here.


Anyways I wanted to say these are gaming chips and it won't be worth buying if you plan on buying games in the spring. A lot of games in 2007 will require atleasta dual core. Unless you plan on playing last gen games then by all means go ahead.


Then, you contradict yourself and say that if you intend on playing games in 2007 that you will require a dual core processor.

I highly doubt that a minimum requrement will be a dual core processor. That would degredate the publisher's market heavily. Basically, they would have less potential to make money. I can't see the sense in that.

Do you have any evidence to back your statements up??

[Glow]

You say the AMD Athlon 3200+ is more than sutiable here.




Then, you contradict yourself and say that if you intend on playing games in 2007 that you will require a dual core processor.

I highly doubt that a minimum requrement will be a dual core processor. That would degredate the publisher's market heavily. Basically, they would have less potential to make money. I can't see the sense in that.

Do you have any evidence to back your statements up??
It'll be a benefit I could see having dual cores but it's the same with games that have x-fi settings all it is there to benefit certain users. But if you have a single core that can pump out the clock cycles then It'll be fine I am sure

[Hallow]

I bought this with "AMDROCKS" code at Newegg a couple months ago.

Ridiculously easy to overclock to 2.8ghz. In BIOS simply switch multiplier from 12 to 14. It took me all of a minute and I got the performance of a stock FX-57 and saved a couple hundred bucks. DO IT!

[decade146]

i was replying to nobody here.
"thats what i was thinking....i want to build a crappy little system just for the wife to have to surf the web and check email, at this price, why not have a fast CPU for the same money as a slow one right?"

ok... :o I am not contradicting myself, his wife is doing office work and using the fx-55 it will have no real world performance gain. i was only stating the 3200 are going cheap around $50-60, so that would be a better option for his build for her.

also i said the fx-55 for gamers who dont want to play next gen games should go ahead and purchase it.

[nobody_here]

i was replying to nobody here.
"thats what i was thinking....i want to build a crappy little system just for the wife to have to surf the web and check email, at this price, why not have a fast CPU for the same money as a slow one right?"

ok... :o I am not contradicting myself, his wife is doing office work and using the fx-55 it will have no real world performance gain. i was only stating the 3200 are going cheap around $50-60, so that would be a better option for his build for her.

also i said the fx-55 for gamers who dont want to play next gen games should go ahead and purchase it.


agreed

i just got off the phone with my brother in law, he still has an old system i gave him with a Celeron 2.0A CPU he is going to send back to me, it will do fine and nice thing is, i already bought it like years ago, and it's coming back to me :D

[Obi_Kwiet]

Man, 939 is the way to go these says on a budget.

[6shiw1]

Doesn't dual core dedicate 1 core to the game? so how does that help gaming?

[Hallow]

It has been rumoured that there are games in development which will utilize both cores.

Those games better be twice as cool or else I'm gonna totally freak out.

[silentcoercion]

On the next gen games requiring/not requiring multiple cores, I'd just like to point out the example of Alan Wake, which it's been stated probably will not be possible to run on a single core machine. Just sayin'...

[Varmint]

It has been rumoured that there are games in development which will utilize both cores.

Those games better be twice as cool or else I'm gonna totally freak out.

Several games have dual core optimizations already - Oblivion, Quake 4 come to mind.

You get about 15% more performance in Oblivion with dual core, which is like a 400 mHz gain. 1 MB cache is also 5% faster than 512k.

So this FX-55 at stock 2.6 GHz would be about the same speed as an X2 4200+. So it's still more bang for the buck than dual core for gaming, but that will probably change in 6-12 months.

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/Oblivion/oblivion.png

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/Oblivion/oblivion.png

[GlimmerMan]

On the next gen games requiring/not requiring multiple cores, I'd just like to point out the example of Alan Wake, which it's been stated probably will not be possible to run on a single core machine. Just sayin'...

Also stated that it can probably run on a hyper-threaded P4 with significantly reduced details. Hyper-threading is like dual-core. Seems like the game will be optimized for quad-core.

[nilepez]

Anyways I wanted to say these are gaming chips and it won't be worth buying if you plan on buying games in the spring. A lot of games in 2007 will require atleasta dual core. Unless you plan on playing last gen games then by all means go ahead.



Huh? Where are you getting that? I know of very few games that are currently CPU bound. Unless GPUs make a quantum leap, I suspect that will remain the biggest problem.

But either way, most houses have limited exp with multi-threaded programming. As such, we likely won't see a significant move to dual core for some time....my guess is that they'll need Dual core around the time they need DX10: 2 years from now.

There may be a benefit to Dualies next year, but it won't be required. most people don't upgrade more than once every 3-5 years.

[yossarian]

most people don't upgrade more than once every 3-5 years.

Boy I wish that were true. I think most of us here upgrade more often than that. I've got the bills to prove it...
:(

[Robstar]

Also stated that it can probably run on a hyper-threaded P4 with significantly reduced details. Hyper-threading is like dual-core. Seems like the game will be optimized for quad-core.

Sweet, I have dual 285's right now :)

[nilepez]

Boy I wish that were true. I think most of us here upgrade more often than that. I've got the bills to prove it...
:(

We're not typical computer users. We're not even typical of gamers.

[mpgalvin]

gentlemen, can we table the ideological discussion of parallelism and get back to the relative hotness of this ongoing deal?

specifically, would the benefit of an unlocked multiplier justify the higher outlay for the FX? is the 4000+ deal actually the hotter? (no disrespect intended to the OP, but the FX55 price is essentially a repost.)

[nobody_here]

gentlemen, can we table the ideological discussion of parallelism and get back to the relative hotness of this ongoing deal?

specifically, would the benefit of an unlocked multiplier justify the higher outlay for the FX? is the 4000+ deal actually the hotter? (no disrespect intended to the OP, but the FX55 price is essentially a repost.)


no sweat, it's cool, i did check the first two pages of the deals forums to make sure i wasnt posting something again......guess there were too many hot deals since then for it to be that recent ;)

[MrSneis]

Sold out DAMNIT

[Nakamori]

Both game consoles are multi-core, and as a result many console ports will soon be multi-core optimized.

[Roberty]

I will buy it when its $99


If you want it new instead of used then you better jump on it as AMD isn't making them anymore and after they are gone you'll be S.O.L. Look at how hard it is to buy a X2 3800 anymore. That's why I jumped on a cheap used FX-60 because it will soon be hard to get them at all.