Can someone at TR look into why the latest Foxconn AM2 mobo has such a massive improvement in performance (as far as designing same platform mobos are concerned)?

Doom3 goes from 130 to 143 for example, using the same components except for replacing the former Asus champ with the Foxconn designed mobo... that's like a speed grade improvement.

http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/foxconn_c51xem2aa/

I saw a £99 3800+ including VAT (ugh, 17.5%) this morning, was impressed at the price.

I guess that with these price cuts AMD's processors are pretty much roughly even with the Core 2 Duo processors in terms of performance per dollar at each price point. Add in the cheaper motherboard situation for AMD, and if you're feeling persistant, the low availability of Core 2 Duo which may lead to higher retail prices than listed, and overall it still looks sensible to buy AMD at any sub $300 CPU pricepoint.

I guess that covers 80% of the consumer market at least.

It's good for us enthusiasts - cheaper 3800+s!

For normal people they're now getting an X2 4600+ system instead of an A64 3800+ system from their OEM of choice. If AMD's yields are reasonable then they'll lose some money from enthusiasts buying cheaper, but overall they'll still be selling at the same price point - just faster processors with more cores. ASP might not drop too much.

Wow $827 for an FX62 or $530 for a faster Conroe 2.67ghz ...geee hard choice...
Must be hard for the ATi engineers to see their company gobbled up by the likes of AMD.

When the heck will we see good , sub $100 motherboards?

When will we see these prices in the wild?

Since Athlons include an integrated memory controller, athlon motherboards should be cheaper than Intel motherboards. If one takes that into account, then it seems that these price cuts bring AMD into approximate price/performance parity with Core2.

good time to be a consumer, bad time to own AMD stock.

5000 looks very very sweat at this rate but if i add $15 more i get E6600 which is more sweater that 5000 X2 :-)

$827 for the FX-62?!? still far too expensive... eventhough its literally being pound by the E6600... dont think an enthuasiast with the right mind would buy that... come on AMD u can do better than that!!! :-)

hooray! maybe a x2-3800 is in line for purchase now!

odd, I remember hearing about this over a month ago now, saying the chips were going out of production in favor of their AM2 counterparts. Price cuts were expected near the end of July.

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20060622PR211.html

amd fears intel now muahahaha

:oD As pretty much covered already an A64-X2_3800+ combined with the cheaper and mature AMD mobos is superb value for money, esp with a little o/c'ing. Until Intel release the cheaper Core2Duo I'll be sticking with AMD not only to assist competition but I also prefer maintaining maximum interoperability with all of my PCs (and the PCs I make for others), very useful when troubleshooting etc. That's also why I'll be hanging on to DDR(1) for a little while yet, 939's DC DDR(1) is more than enough for dual-core which is the holy grail as far as I'm concerned. Roll on 2007, things should be getting very interesting.

I'm still getting a E6600

Although a second system.........