William Henning van CPU Review heeft z'n Athlon vs Pentium III price comparison van een update voorzien. De Athlon prijzen zijn de afgelopen weken flink omlaag gestuiterd, met als gevolg dat een Athlon systeempje nu in alle gevallen goedkoper is dan een vergelijkbare PIII configuratie:
Intel has certainly responded AMD's price challange. All you have to do is to look at the chart showing the falling prices over time; the Intel prices were the hardest hit.AMD is still sitting pretty. They have the hottest x86 chip, and they know it. Looking at the current pricing suggests that AMD is now trying to take the high-end single processor market away from Intel. Just look at the price drop on the K7-700! I wonder what that could mean? Beating Intel on price AND performance is the name of the new game.
We are no longer paying a lot more for an Athlon based system than for an equivalent clock speed Pentium 3.
