Athlon 64 X2

After a report from Hong Kong AMD will bring so far only the Athlon 64 X2 offered for PC manufacturers to 3600+ dual core processor for the base AM2 “in the immediate future” also into the retail trade. Since the past entrance model of the Athlon 64 X2 series, US Dollar costs 3800+, in the wholesale officially 152 to which, might become more favorable the Athlon 64 X2 3600+ some more.

In this country one is already available starting from approximately 135 euro the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ on-line. One may count thus with the 3600+ model on a selling price between 100 and 125 euro. Thus AMD creates a new competition product for Intel the Pentium D 915, which costs momentarily about 130 euro.
The Athlon 64 X2 3600+ clocks at the beginning of of July after emerged information like the 3800+ model with 2.0 GHz, has however a smaller Level-2 Cache. Each core possesses instead of the usual 512KB only 256KB L2-Cache.