Now that the athlon 64 is out are prices going to drop for the normal xp processor??

No, not until athlon releases it for the home consumer market,

Athlon64 is just for servers for now...once it takes off for home desktops the AthlonXP's will become yesterdays donuts and prices will drop like a fat man who sat down too fast

Athlon 64 (claw hammer core, 754 pin) is 64-bit processors that will come out in september for consumers. The current Opterons (sledge hammer core, 940 pin) are for servers and have alot more cache than the Athlon 64's will have, they also carry a hefty price tag. My guess is that not many companies will make consumer boards for the opteron, at least not dual processor boards. The nForce3 Pro will support the opteron but not dual processors. And by consumer boards, I mean they have features other than usb, scsi, lan, cheep audio and possibly integrated video. To give you an example, the MSI K8D Master-F/FT supports dual opterons, has dual gigabit lan and integrated video (no agp) is just now available at more than one place for a very reasonable price of just under $500; not exactly consumer-grade.

Amd's prices are quite low as it is, I would buy a processor now unless amd is going to release another xp to further lower the current xp prices or announces another price drop; xp2600's are down to 100 bucks retail, cant argue with that

Good info there Eagle, once those come out I will be picking myself up a AthlonXP 3000+ faster then a fat man running to a donut sale

But remember that computer hardware can never be inexpensive enough, so I do argue with the AthlonXP 2600+ being under $100

yeah well i was wondering cause i got everything i need for another computer but the processor.

the abit nf7-s can support much higher than the current 2400 i have. I want to upgrade but want to wait till its cheaper and i will buy the upgrade and stick the 2400 in the second computer that i am waiting to build.

thats why i was wondering on prices? 400 something for the 3200+ or whatever is out now is way over what i want to pay.

My rule of thumb: never buy the best thing, the xp3200 may be very expensive but the xp3000 is like $260.

evileagle is right, never but the new stuff right off the line, its always way over priced....and just wait a few months and somethign new will be out, the 3000 is like 260, which is half of what the 3200 cost....and i doubt u can SEE any difference between them, yes the benches are diff, but the visual difference is nill

I've seen many posts about people searching for the Athlon 1700+ with the B stepping. This is a very good vendor with whom I 've done lots of business and have yet to get burned. They also guarantee that you will recieve the correct stepping that you order. Thier prices are quite fair.

www.excaliberpc.com

For the Athlon 1700+ B-stepping: http://www.excaliberpc.com/product_i...oducts_id=1486

Hell, my 2500 owns any athlon I've evr used-the cache/pipeline difference is great. and you ca pick one up for around ninety bucks...