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Athlon X2 3600 £<£ pd805!

Harrigan

Harrigan

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Haven't seen this mentioned here yet, so I'll go ahead and do it now. Theres a new X2, the 3600 with 256kb L2 per core. It isn't listed on here yet, but Ive seen it elsewhere for around the £80 mark. That makes it around, or slightly less than the cost of a PD805. Considering the K8s lack of dependance on L2 size, overclockability of the 3800 and the added headroom from having less cache, it looks pretty dam tempting. Definately not one for a gaming machine, but for anything else, rendering, audio work, office, EXTREME office, it should be good
 
I dont see why this wouldnt be any good for gaming, cache won't help but clocking the pants off it will :D

I am getting one of these if they are actually released on socket 939
 
same here, cant find a thing about them although it certainly would make sense for them to make a cheaper dual core
 
Would be a good idea, however the 256kb cache puts me off slightly, celeron style :( It would be the 1.8ghz addition to their range I assume the lowest in all series?
 
=assassin= said:
There's a link here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060627152959.html

Looks like it'll be for AM2 only.
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unless chopped this disagrees :confused:
 
Minstadave said:
CPU-Z shot shows its on S939, so this could be a dirt cheap upgrade.
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CPU-Z also shows my single core 3800+ as an x2 :)

Either way, this looks like a highly tempting item. :p
 
I'm not so sure. There are very large price cuts expected on X2 models with 512KB cache, which might bring the X3800 under £100. That makes this low-cache 3600 less attractive. I'm not sure it'll go retail at all.

Also, AMD don't make S939 chips any more. So I don't see them releasing a new model on S939.
 
Personally would rather have one of the heavily discounted Intel chips that will be knocking about, the 256k L2 s very off putting (per core of course) but I think it will seriously hold this chip back :(

On second thoughts, I would have neither, I would get one of the lower Conroes for value for money :D
 
A.N.Other said:
Looks like good value for money at a glance - if the price posted is in the right sort of area. We'll have to wait and see how it clocks.
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I'm not sure how much the cache would impact the performance, but with one at 2.8ghz its still going to perform pretty damn nicely.
 
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