AMD Athlon X2 7850 vs. Intel Pentium E5300: Choosing the Best $70 CPU

jmke · 28th April 2009, 16:26

AMD celebrates its 40 year anniversary next month, and the Athlon brand turns ten shortly thereafter. What better way to celebrate than by releasing a rebadged 65nm Phenom processor with two cores disabled at $69? Er, or, I guess they could’ve sent a cake.

It’s called the Athlon X2 7850 and it actually has very little in common with the old Athlon 64 X2s. As I mentioned, these are rebadged 65nm Phenom processors with two cores disabled.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3554

28th April 2009, 23:03

Interesting, $70 Dualcore with the remote possibility of 3GHz Quadcore through the same unlock as Tricore chips. NordicHardware reported one site did just that.

28th April 2009, 16:26	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	AMD Athlon X2 7850 vs. Intel Pentium E5300: Choosing the Best $70 CPU AMD celebrates its 40 year anniversary next month, and the Athlon brand turns ten shortly thereafter. What better way to celebrate than by releasing a rebadged 65nm Phenom processor with two cores disabled at $69? Er, or, I guess they could’ve sent a cake. It’s called the Athlon X2 7850 and it actually has very little in common with the old Athlon 64 X2s. As I mentioned, these are rebadged 65nm Phenom processors with two cores disabled. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3554 __________________

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28th April 2009, 23:03	#2
Kougar Posts: n/a	Interesting, $70 Dualcore with the remote possibility of 3GHz Quadcore through the same unlock as Tricore chips. NordicHardware reported one site did just that.