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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
 
It must be able to beat the 805d. Considering the 805 is 2.66ghz with a horrifically slow fsb, and the 3600 is probably equivalent to dual 2.8ghz p4s. The only thing the 805 has in its favour is the high multi and low bus compared to the 3600, which might be more appealing for overclocking. I still think the 3600 would be better. Faster at stock and probably faster clocked at extreme speeds.
 
But the K8 is not very dependant on cache size at all, and I would imagine on AM2 with DDR2 memory it would be less so. I think the 3600 would perform only marginally lower than the 3800, which is way above the 805.
 
It's kind of a hybrid between sempron and athlon. It supports the Athlon's 1000MT/s HTT vs the semprons 800MT/s, and the pacifica virtualisation tech, which the semprons are missing. The only similarity is the size of the cache. Hmmm, if these are failed Manchesters, I wonder if some unlocking could be done....no idea how possible this is with K8 chips.
 
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