The AMD cpu pin count is what worries me. They will have a new socket come next year. So the mobo you buy this year will be obsolete by the time you want to upgrade.

Is it just me or is the Athlon FX a bad deal too?

You can get most of the performance of the FX in the plain 761pin version. It's not worth an extra 300bux.

You want an unlocked fx-51 motherboard? Gigabyte K8NNXP-940

[url]http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1901[/url]

I'll take two.

apparently go-l is going to put a p4ee in a laptop . . .
i guess that would be pretty cool as a desktop replacement, except the machine will cost 6,000

how long till the athlon 64 makes its way into a laptop?

What I think is that the P4EE is a benchmark grabber and little else. Few mortals will ever pay that price premium. The Prescott is another story, it can get away with the big L2 easier because it's 90nm.

The P4EE is Intel trusty old paper lauch tactics in action again. Make people think there's something bigger and better from Intel just around the corner and they might not buy that AMD cpu they were opting for. In all fairness I suppose AMD did the same thing with the Athlon64 for a long time when the Northwood P4 was beginning to look superiour to the aging K7 based Barton/Tbreds.

The price on the P4EE is exactly what I'd expect it to be.. sky high because Intel is less interested in actually selling them, and more interested in seeing their name in the top spot on reviwers bechmarks... or rather very interested in NOT seeing AMDs name there :-)

Looks like my predictions were right. There was no way the P4 EE would be priced lower than a Xeon with only 1MB L3 cache. In any event, you'd have to be a damn fool to buy one of these things over an FX or at all.

For $925 I can buy three whole computers at Walmart. I wonder which would fold faster, 1 overpriced hypeware or 3 El Cheapo specials put together.

Too bad you can't distributed compute BF1942, though.

As long as $60 AMD processors are available, you can file this in the "who gives a crap" pile.

*yawn*

I used to remember paying $1000 for an Intel CPU. If it wasn't for AMD this CPU will be well into $1500 :P

Wow... my whole computer cost less then that to make. :)

Wow, it costs more than my Pentium II 300 did.

Darn nice of Intel to provide such a positive incentive for buying the A64s...:) I suspect, though, that the truth is that Intel has very little desire to actually sell and support these, and thus the asking price.

This is what Intel high-end processors used to cost back in the days of their near-monopoly. Like I said the P4EE will be very rare and expensive since it's purpose was being just reviewware.