Athlon 6000+ quietly launched

AMD decided to quietly launch the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU. It has already started to sell these chips, at least in parts of Euroland.

The Athlon 6000+ is dual-core, socket AM2 CPU working at 3GHz per core. They are based on the Windsor core, still 90 nanometre and the maximal TDP is a claimed 125W. Each core has 1024KB of cache memory.

The CPUs can be recognised by their AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket-AM2 boxed, 2x 3.00GHz, 2x 1024kB Cache (ADX6000CZBOX) name tag. The package includes a cooler and the cheapest one we could find cost €575, including the new German 19 per cent VAT. Up until New Year's Eve the Germans paid only 16 percent VAT but they are not so rich any more, you know the EU stuff.

The special thing about this CPU is that it is faster than the FX62 clocked at 2.8GHz and that it matches the speed of Athlon FX74 that works at 3GHz. You can see the Athlon 64 X2 as the new FX for AM2 CPUs.

You can buy it today in Germany here but we could not find one at USA based etail stores Newegg and TigerDirect. Dabs in the UK has it listed for £414.98 but not available right now. You can pre order one here and Overclockers doesn't have it at all. Overclockers does sell the 200MHz slower FX62 for £249.99 including VAT and we think this is a very good price at least for the UK island people. You can get it here.

hAMD's Fab 30 where it makes Windsor CPUs is based in Germany so we guess that's why it's available in Germany first. µ