New Triple Core Athlon IIs Are Great Value CPUs
Three cores... so... Tri-Athlon?
AMD today introduced several new Athlon II processors that strike hard on the value proposition. In fact, the better 'bang for your buck' angle is one that AMD took by comparing to Intel's offerings.
AMD in its press release said that its Athlon II X2 240e processor "performs up to 70 percent better in media and entertainment benchmarks and delivers a processor cost saving of over $40 when compared to the Intel Core 2 Duo E7400…"
Particularly of interest today is the new Athlon II X3 triple core CPU, which we've explored in depth in our feature review.
The company further pointed out that the Athlon II X3 435 processor "delivers processor cost savings of over $100 while providing up to 75 percent better media and entertainment performance when compared to the Intel Core 2 Duo E8500."
The rest of the Athlon II line up looks like this:
In our final analysis, we found AMD's new Athlon II X3 435 as the best budget CPU for the dollar available at stock clock rates. Click here to read our feature review.
No, I read it as IIs.
but looks like good prices, what are overclock possibilities ??
No, I read it as IIs.
45W isn't its power consumption, it is its Thermal Design Power. The review here indicated that it consumes 71W at idle with a Asus MA4785TD-V EVO board.
It provides up to 75 percent better media and entertainment performance when compared to the Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 as AMD pointed? Its nice to hear that!
Let's all wait and see for its benchies.
X4 mobile @ 2GHz / 25W would certainly get me.....
They are indeed the exact same processor, but all processors come off the same line with different capabilities because of natural variances in production quality between processors. The cleanest examples are sold at a premium. While you can overclock the 2.2 to 3.0 ghz, the other will probably do 3.3. I guess that 300 mhz is worth it to some people, but I'm in your boat. Save your money!
I can feel ya but I'm dead curious about the Itanium2 chips. The computer architecture really needs a reboot and a new start on a clean sheet. Imagine how fast the CPUs would be if one relieved them of the burden of backwards compatibility with i386. A well-built CPU with a clean instruction set would kick ass. Unfortunately it seems that one has to be as big as Intel to carry out such a reboot.
You mean the Phenom II X4 965. Yes it's down to $215. I still wouldn't get it though. 140 watts TDP sucks.
The Lynnfields are only 95 watts TDP and can perform just as good or even better.
If you have a Microcenter near you, $229 for the i7 860 is the best bang for buck right now.