Amd athlon 64 x2 7750? What do you think.....

New one from amd...better performance compared to teh 6400+? Also, what would be a compatible part to keep it cool? Links please, from the egg if ya can.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103300

Doesnt look to shabby ^^ and very affordable. Was considering the 6400+ but after reading reviews on this....think I found a new love

now finding something to keep it cool thats compatible without causing serious injury from failed attempts to install, due to the "D'oh!" and *head/desk, head/desk* or the dreaded *oopsies?* X)

Any and all opinions welcome. (concerning the actual questions posted lol)..this is not a intel versus amd, this is comparing the amd 6000 series and the 7750, thats all =)

so 6400+ versus 7750, lets hear it!

ty for your time, happy holidays!

Well it is a quad that 2 of the cores failed on, not worth crap in my opinion. AMD is just selling them to try and wring out a profit somehow. Buying an already broken chip is a bad Idea to me.

Who cares? The defective parts are disabled. Intel, ATI and Nvidia have also sold products with certain parts disabled and will continue to do so.

Compared to the 6400+ the new one wins hands down.
If you're locking for overclocking, also.

This is basically a Phenom, which is a newer architecture than the Athlons.
There is no reason to go with the 6400+ over this one, especially not if you can overclock the 7750.

It really depends on if your motherboard supports the 7750. It is far better then the 6400+ with the 2mb L3 Cache. The newegg listing is wrong this processor is based on current Phenom's and has 2X512kb L2 Cache and the 2mb L3 Cache and requires a AM2+ board. As with all K-10s it also can use Advanced Clock Calibration (750SB). This isn't your old Athlon X2 anymore. So if you have a AM2+ board its by far a better processor then the X2 6400+

What? I dont see any marketing claiming these are any more than a dual core. You sir, are an idiot.

Did you not read the OP. He stated DO NOT COMPARE this with an INTEL chip. A 7750 is $80 and E8400 is $165. You get what you paid for.

L2 cache isnt required by the AMD architecture . With the memory controller built in to the chip instead of on the northbridge chipset as intel has previously done a large L2 cache is not needed . Intel needed one because the memory access of their chips was slow and the cache helped compensate .

And yes this new AMD chip is a Phenom with two active cores . Who cares ?
Is it the same people who are worried that all C2D and pentium dual core chips are identical and all intel does is grade them and turn parts of the chips off to make the cheaper models?

In that case I guess you have no trust in any CPU or GPU manufacturer because they all do the same thing. Maybe you should stop using computers altogether if it bothers you that much.

"3mb of L2 cache" was a sloppy statement. Those other reviews are correct. Each K10 core has 64K data L1 cache, 64K instruction L1 cache, and 512K L2 cache, just like on a K8 Brisbane core. There are two K10 cores in a 7750. Additionally, for the whole chip there is a 2 MB L3 cache. The "3mb" came from adding L2 and L3 and is inaccurate because L1 is also cache. "3mb" is also imprecise because not all 3 MB are at the same latency.

This doesn't tell the whole story. How much cache you "need" depends on how fast your cores are and how many of them you have for the amount of memory bandwidth you've got. It also depends slightly on how you use the cache - there are ways to use more cache to boost speed further, or to conserve cache by optimizing utilization.

As an example, the i7 has an extremely fast integrated memory controller (by comparison with K10 or K8), but it still has over 9 MB of cache. That's because (1) it's trying to feed 4 cores that were not only fast to begin with, but accelerated further with HT and (2) the inclusive cache hierarchy is one way of speeding up the cache at the cost of using more of it.

2 cores broken? Naha! I'd take a two wheel BMW over a four wheel Skoda any day

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