Thread: AMD Athlon II X4 introduction.

AMD has been assaulting the mainstream PC segment recently with a slew of modestly determined CPUs and chipsets. The approach started out with the novel Athlon II X2 value CPUs back in June, which were a much required replacement for the out-dated Athlon X2 series. Then a elite weeks afterwards, AMD published their novel mainstream chipset, the 785G, which we detect to be an fantabulous accompaniment to the novel Athlon II's.

Today AMD is contributing the final assemble to their novel mainstream desktop platform with the free of a line-up of value-cost quad-cores; the Athlon II X4 series.At 1st the proclamation of Athlon II X4s doesn't seem too concerning. particularly afterwards they accept been rumored for approximately time and it wasn't much of a stretch to conceive of that AMD would acquire approximately to publishing quad-core Athlon II CPUs finally. Not to observe the Athlon IIs are in lots paths only Phenom IIs with the L3 cache removed, so there isn't a ton of brand novel tech underneath the hood to ogle at.



However, things acquire a lot more interesting when you hear the list cost. conceive for a instant the prospect of full, native quad-core capabilities at a palatable mainstream cost generally related with dual-cores. While the novel Athlon II X4 620 undercuts all presently useable quad and triple core CPU on the market in price, the 630 will be butting heads with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 and the Phenom II X3 720.

This construct for some concerning benchmark matchups as you'll assure in the doing pages. If the novel Athlon II X4 CPUs can stand up versus Intel's cheapest quad, the Q8200, AMD could accept a winner on its hands.