Weekly CPU Prices

[Lord Cecil]

I check the cpu weekly prices pretty much every week, just to keep a feel for the market. The AMD page is very clean and concise. Unforunately, the intel page is long and just seems messier.

There are two reasons for this. First of all, most of the processors on the Intel page take 2 lines just to display OEM or retail. For a reason unknown to me AMD doesn't have OEM prices. I honestly see no reason to display an OEM cost because everyone who checks this site should know that it will probably about a 10 dollar difference, maybe a little less and in a rare case a bit more exspsensive. However, if you really want to cover the OEM cost why not give it a column right beside the retail price? That way it doesn't have to be so long, each item will only take one row, and you can compare prices a lot faster.

Second problem lies within the Intel vs AMD High-End and low-end pages. Its a huge pain scanning up and down the page to actually compare everything. It only needs to have two columns, the chip and its cost for each brand. Then put the XP2400 by its competitor, the P4 2.4 and the XP3000 by the P4 3ghz.

I guess you would actually need another set of P4 chips being the ones that aren't labeled with a C and have hyperthreading. Regardless, it should *NOT* be half of each list copy and pasted over.

Just a few thoughts.

[Vince Freeman]

Thanks for the suggestions, and while limited space is the culprit for the "messy Intel chart" (we've tried to shrink the text down as much as we can..), I will think over the second idea, and see if organization and sorting can be improved in the LE and HE charts.