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Price of Athlon 3000+ xp going down
Name: aca Date: March 12, 2005 at 22:55:25 Pacific OS: Win 2000 SP4 CPU/Ram: 512ddr Athlon 1.8mhz
Comment:
Looking to upgrade to Athlon xp 3000+. Best price I have found is £80. With the new Sempron/64 CPUs am I best hanging on for prices to drop further?
Name: Cobra_R Date: March 12, 2005 at 23:35:52 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah. I would advise you to hang on to your money and get an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 939 system because 64 bit is around the corner and it's only a matter of time until almost everything will start becoming 64 bit. I have seen an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 939 for only 150 bucks and it's only a matter of time before they drop even lower. Just wait until the dual core processors come out in the new few months because then you will see single core processors drop in more in price.
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