dont know why amd never slapped together 2 64bit processors on the one die thay have that ht link. it would have saved a lot of time

After having checked AMD's website today (the 18th, after the supposed price drop) there was nothing to be seen nor heard of a price drop or release of 9600 BE. 

Shame that. =\

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_609,00.html?redir=CPT301%3fredir=SPDR0010

Does anyone else find it amusing that a company cuts prices on a product that they CLAIM has strong demand, hasn't really been released in any significant volume and is supposed to be the flagship product and better than competition?

Seems to me cutting prices speaks to the demand and the performance - perhaps even more clearly than AMD's 'claims'....

But hey, it's just sound business sense that you cut prices on something experiencing 'strong demand' and AMD has demonstrated nothing, if not a strong business sense. Come to think of it they've demonstrated nothing recently....

This is like the 5th comment I've read belonging to "Physician Thomas Swewart von Drashek M.D" (or was it Ph.D? You'd think he could remember such a thing)

It's just a bloody spam bot. Don't you proof-read these things? It's just a sentence loosely connected to the article followed by lots of Vista Ultimate nonsense. 

=/

Too bad they didn't do it at launch. The launch prices were a joke given the performance compared to Core 2 and the TLB bug.

Once again, twice in two years, AMD has crashed market for good reason, without any TOP Ender to cement position from.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC 
Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC, are listed in article, yet Vista RC1 is not desired one, it usually will not install on ULTIMATE.AT Microsoft SP! page, at bottom of page has better listing in ALL LANGUAGE SP! RC1. it works yet takes hours to install, you must be by your computer, as it turns off 3 times to continue install.

It does come out of whole install mess prettty good.

Its' AMDs' Time now, Sell Best for Less & WIN. ULTIMATE Only is possible, now build it.
signed:physician thomas stewart von drashek M.D.