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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Rob Beard wrote:
tom wrote:Yep, not a bad price, shame it's something like 95W though. Saying that, AMD have released lower power Phenom II and Opteron processors, so they may well be able to bring out a low power Athlon II X4 too (albeit probably at a lower clock speed).Seen these AMD Athlon II X4 620's - 4 cores 2.Ghz 512K cache per core! here comes another new pc to write e-mails on.... Tom te tom te tomI'm mulling over getting one of these myself. I can't afford an Intel Core i7 or i5 even now they're cheaper and I already have an AM2+ board sitting around waiting for a new chip anyway.
According to the reviews these are Phenoms with the L3 cache disabled (production faulures?)
I'm not convinced myself - especially for the desktop as there are so few applications that make use of more than one core so-far. Esepcially with it's rather small L2 cache too.
I'd rather have a core-2 duo right now - I buit la server with one recently it's it really flies - and - the whole server was consumuing less than 60 watts when idle with the clock on tick-over...
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