AMD FX-4130 CPU Could Finally Come to Market

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First spotted by the folks over at CPU World, the quad-core processor is listed for $120.42 with no information when the processor will ship.

Originally, the chip was scheduled to launch in Q1 or Q2 together with additional SKUs, including the quad-core versions 4120, 4150 and 4200 as well as the eight-core models 8140 and 8170. However, that launch never happened and AMD has remained silent on the reasons and possible future launch dates. While the listing on ShopBLT could be a fluke, there are now rumors that the chips could be launching in September or October.

The 4130 integrates the 32 nm Zambezi core and ships with a clock speed of 3800/3900 MHz. The thermal design power is 125 watts.

AMD did not comment on the availability of this or other possible future FX processors.

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  • idroid
    AMD FX-4130 CPU Could Finally Come to Market

    Yeah.... like if people actually want more bulldozed bulldozers to come out
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  • captainblacko
    if the price is right on them then i would like to be bulldozed
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  • pharoahhalfdead
    125 watts? That's the same as the 8150. Surely AMD can do better than that.
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  • greghome
    9394469 said:
    125 watts? That's the same as the 8150. Surely AMD can do better than that.

    all the FX chips share the exact same die as the perfect 8 core models, hence the incredible amount of L3 even on the Quad cores, hence that crazy amount of power draw.

    I'd say they could have cut power draw on the Quad Core models to less than 95watt with the same clocks if they had bother to remove half the L3...then again, I don't think it's practical with BD's design
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  • doron
    greghomeall the FX chips share the exact same die as the perfect 8 core models, hence the incredible amount of L3 even on the Quad cores, hence that crazy amount of power draw. I'd say they could have cut power draw on the Quad Core models to less than 95watt with the same clocks if they had bother to remove half the L3...then again, I don't think it's practical with BD's design

    TDP != Power draw.
    http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1766/15/
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  • razor512
    knowing AMD, it is probably 2 cores pretending to be 4 because their stupid marketing team decided, hey lets double one of the components that goes into a core then we can call this quad core CPU an 8 core.

    Imagine if other businesses were allowed to do that.

    Order 2 hamburgers and you only get 1 hamburger + an extra half a bun.

    Or you go to the store and buy a 2 pack of toothpaste and when you open the box you find that it is really just 1 tube with 2 caps on it.

    If you look at the benchmarks for their new FX series of CPU you will see that the performance of their 8 core CPU ranges from being that of a 4 core CPU and for a select few processing tasks that take advantage of the fraction of an additional core that they added, then you get small boost causing about 1-2 cores of additional performance (overall the FX 8 core cant beat the phenom II x6 chips consistently enough to be considered a better chip
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  • spp85
    I think we may wait for the 28nm Steamroller generation CPU for an alternative to Intel's overpriced CPUs.
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  • idroid
    captainblackoif the price is right on them then i would like to be bulldozed
    Fanboy...
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  • idroid
    greghomeall the FX chips share the exact same die as the perfect 8 core models, hence the incredible amount of L3 even on the Quad cores, hence that crazy amount of power draw. I'd say they could have cut power draw on the Quad Core models to less than 95watt with the same clocks if they had bother to remove half the L3...then again, I don't think it's practical with BD's design
    Hence the performance fail...
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  • technoholic
    when is the trinity desktop coming up?
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