In early September, we had reported the imminent arrival of a wave of new processors AMD socket AM3. The Texas-based firm has launched eight of these CPUs today. They are all Athlon II, which are also to receive new packaging. After the dual and quad-core, the triple-core land. Since X3 is a core idle, they lose some of their cache, but retain a high TDP.

New Energy Efficient CPUs are launched (or formalized, some are available for some time), with a low TDP of 45 watts. There are now thirteen II Athlon processors in the AMD range. The prices are much stretched because part of the $ 60 X2 240 to more than double, with $ 143 of X4 605th. Regrettably, as usual, the high prices of energy-saving versions. Here are the rates of the full range with the newcomers in bold:

• AMD Athlon X4 II 630 MHz # 2800, 95W, 2MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X4 II 620 MHz # 2600, 95W, 2MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X4 II 605th # 2300 MHz, 45 watts, 2 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X4 II 600th # 2200 MHz, 45 watts, 2 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon II X3 435 # 2900 MHz, 95 watts, 1.5 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon II X3 425 # 2700 MHz, 95 watts, 1.5 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon II X3 405th # 2300 MHz, 45 watts, 1.5 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon II X3 400th # 2200 MHz, 45 watts, 1.5 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X2 II 250 MHz # 3000, 95W, 2MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X2 245 # II 2900 MHz, 95W, 2MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X2 II 240 MHz # 2800, 95W, 2MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X2 II 240th # 2800 MHz, 45 watts, 2 MB L2 #
• AMD Athlon X2 II 235th # 2700 MHz, 45 watts, 2 MB L2 #