Newegg Athlon64 X2?

Someone on overclocker forum was actually looking for an old FX board to bench Bulldozer against a FX-60 or something.
 
im still rocking my 939 x2 4200+ and still have a 3500+ on an asus sli mobo in the basment complete with the water cooling still attached.
 
At first I thought these were the strangely binned Regor/Castillo chips. But Wow :eek: they are the real deal, lol.
 
I still have my X2 4800+ rig in use (secondary PC) it gets the job done for the most part although its showing its age with current games, Never had any problems with tho it has always been rock stable, (4gb ram + GTX 260 videocard / Win 7 64).

I was looking at my newegg order history and almost forgot how crazy expensive the X2's were back then lol, But it was faster than anything Intel had out at the time.

Invoice date 10-18-2005:
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Not too long ago, I would have jumped at the chance to buy one of these, since I was stuck on an Athlon 64 4000+ (single core). Having a least a dual-core system would have greatly extended the life of that system. I just couldn't do it because the chips were priced in the hundreds of dollars.
 
mathesar said:
I still have my X2 4800+ rig in use (secondary PC) it gets the job done for the most part although its showing its age with current games, Never had any problems with tho it has always been rock stable, (4gb ram + GTX 260 videocard / Win 7 64).

I was looking at my newegg order history and almost forgot how crazy expensive the X2's were back then lol, But it was faster than anything Intel had out at the time.

Invoice date 10-18-2005:
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Lol. Nice find. I love how many people on this forum think AMD has always been geared towards consumers and never priced their CPUs high.
 
My father inlaw is running my old Abit socket 939 board and 3800 x2 and loves the thing..
 
xBanzai89 said:
Lol. Nice find. I love how many people on this forum think AMD has always been geared towards consumers and never priced their CPUs high.
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I love how people on this forum think FX 64's didn't whoop Intel P4 in every benchmark, HA people think BD FX is bad but Pentium 4 couldn't do anything right, at least BD dominates in x264 and holds its own in high end resolutions. Factor in FX was the best chip all of 03-05 and the FX Dual Core was a year b4 Core 2 Dual Core, and you still have to wonder why Intels shit offerings of high end P4 single cores cost more than a Toledo. That chip was wiked sick for Oblivion back in the day.
 
teletran8 said:
I love how people on this forum think FX 64's didn't whoop Intel P4 in every benchmark, HA people think BD FX is bad but Pentium 4 couldn't do anything right, at least BD dominates in x264 and holds its own in high end resolutions. Factor in FX was the best chip all of 03-05 and the FX Dual Core was a year b4 Core 2 Dual Core, and you still have to wonder why Intels shit offerings of high end P4 single cores cost more than a Toledo. That chip was wiked sick for Oblivion back in the day.
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WTF????
 
mathesar said:
I was looking at my newegg order history and almost forgot how crazy expensive the X2's were back then lol, But it was faster than anything Intel had out at the time.

Invoice date 10-18-2005:
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It was much worse than that closer to release, when all stores had asking prices over MSRP, with no significant stock till late-July/early-August 2005. Gone are the days where a consumer targeted AMD CPU could demand such prices.

Invoice 7-05-2005:
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Invoice 7-13-2005:
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Eventually found one for MSRP w/ no tax shortly after which went in the PC in my sig, but I couldn't easily find that invoice.
 
Came across this invoice of an open box FX60 ($920.60 ) system I built. Video card price is pretty crazy too. The invoice date was 3/16/06!

Order Summary
Qty Product Description Price
Shipped from CA, USA - Tracking #: 1ZW098Y01336750891, 1ZW098R41336730616
1
Open Box: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Toledo 2.6GHz Socket 939 Dual-Core Processor ADAFX60CDBOX
Item #: N82E16819103608R
$920.60
1
POWERCOLOR 1900XTX512OEM Radeon X1900XTX 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported VIVO Video Card - OEM
Item #: N82E16814131004
$499.00

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And a 3800+

1
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2.0GHz Socket 939 Dual-Core Processor ADA3800BVBOX
Item #: N82E16819103562
$297.00
 
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teletran8 said:
I love how people on this forum think FX 64's didn't whoop Intel P4 in every benchmark, HA people think BD FX is bad but Pentium 4 couldn't do anything right, at least BD dominates in x264 and holds its own in high end resolutions. Factor in FX was the best chip all of 03-05 and the FX Dual Core was a year b4 Core 2 Dual Core, and you still have to wonder why Intels shit offerings of high end P4 single cores cost more than a Toledo. That chip was wiked sick for Oblivion back in the day.
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That AMD marketing BS they released on the other thread about AMD outperforming Intel at "high resolutions" is already starting to propagate, wow.

As someone on that thread pointed out, it's obvious that they picked runs that happened to turn up favorably to AMD and listed those runs where AMD happened to be 1-2 FPS in the lead. Point is, it's a GPU limited situation with only 1 6970 and it was just random variance that it went one way or the other.
 
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