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AMD pushes mainstream processors
CHIPMAKER AMD has taken the wraps off its latest additions to the Phenom II and Athlon II ranges.
Hoping to use its new-found profits to cut into Intel's market share, Chimpzilla has launched the Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition and the Athlon II X4 635 processors, both squarely aimed at the mainstream desktop market.
According to AMD the socket AM3 processors are designed for users interested in HD entertainment, casual gaming, digital file editing and social-media networking, and are compatible with the upcoming AMD 800-series chipset motherboards.
With a suggested system builder price of $99 when you stump up for 1,000 of them, the dual core Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition is an 80W CPU and factory clocked at 3.2GHz, although since it's a Black Edition it can easily be overclocked.
The 2.9GHz quad-core Athlon II X4 635 draws up to 95W and is slightly more expensive, setting you back around $119 if you're buying in bulk. µ
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AMD just doesn't just get it, they need to have there own in-house decent chipset to go with their CPU's.
Before you all go flaming me with ATI chipsets, let me remind you those are very old ones designed way before the merger/takeover, and don’t get me started with finding drivers and updates for their chipsets.
Chipsets is what sets it apart, Intel have known this for years and they making a killing on it, because their CPU's and Chipsets go well together, same reason Windoze and Office gets on like a house on fire.
Intel chipsets may not be the flashiest on the market and may not have the latest bells and whistles, but they are very stable and that's reason enough and you get easy drivers updates and support; same goes for Genuine Intel motherboards.
Windoze is unstable enough it doesn't needs help crashing it can do that by itself.
That is the single biggest reason huge multinationals and big and small corporations buy Intel CPU’s and Chipsets and of course Intel motherboards.
By the way I’m no fan of Intel integrated graphics at all, they are and will probably be other crap for years to come or till the end of the world; that’s why I always buy and sell only PC’s/Notebooks with ATi Graphics.
As a side note I’ve used Nvidia Chipsets and Graphics years ago, but got burned more than once (more like hundreds of times) by stability problems, crashes and complete failures, so they are dead to me.
The 6 core AMD Thurban is expected between April and June, coinciding with AMD 890 and 850 chipsets 10 April 2010. The Turban 6 core CPU should be at least few weeks after, Specs AMD Thurban 6 cores, 2.4HT, 6mb L3 Cache, 2.8Ghz and 140 TDP.
Soon Q1 2010 AMD will launch Phenom 2 X4 975 3.6Ghz, 6mb L3 cache and 140 TDP.
When is AMDs next new die?
What happened to six cores on the desktop?