AMD Budget AM2 X2

Mathew Everett (Sledgehammer70) AMD has a long road ahead of them with Intel pushing their new Core technology onto the market. But looking on down this long road we can see AMD coming up with ways to get back into the game. The new Athlon 64 X2 3600+ will be AMD's new assault weapon hitting Intel low in the price bracket with an expected price tag of $139-$160. This new chip from AMD will be far from any benchmark breaker, but it will support all of today new technology and will run great for any and all applications. This chip just might be a product of a Dell deal, good power and low cost is just what Dell likes to offer.

June 29, 2006 10:33 AM ET in News,

AMD has a long road ahead of them with Intel pushing their new Core technology onto the market. But looking on down this long road we can see AMD coming up with ways to get back into the game. The new Athlon 64 X2 3600+ will be AMD’s new assault weapon hitting Intel low in the price bracket with an expected price tag of $139-$160.

This new chip from AMD will be far from any benchmark breaker, but it will support all of today new technology and will run great for any and all applications. This chip just might be a product of a Dell deal, good power and low cost is just what Dell likes to offer.

In an attempt to compete against Intel’s plan to offer dual-core processors at competitive prices, AMD will add the Socket-AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3600+, a 2GHz Athlon 64 X2 CPU that contains 512 KB level-two (L2) cache, in the fourth quarter of 2006, with the new part to be priced in the $139-160 range, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.

Although it has the same core speed as the 3800+ series, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ features only 256 KB per core in L2 cache, compared with 512 KB L2 cache per core for the 3800+, according to the sources.

Source: TG Daily

13 Comments:

  1. lemonlime
    29 Jun '06, 3:16 pm

    Pretty much a dual core sempron

    It is too bad AMD didn't release something like that earlier to compete against the amazingly priced Pentium D805.

    This should be an awesome chip if the pricing is accurate.

  2. airbornflght
    29 Jun '06, 4:09 pm

    Yup. I'm still mad that slahed the 1mb core x2's

  3. Sledgehammer70
    29 Jun '06, 7:07 pm
    Quoting lemonlime

    Pretty much a dual core sempron

    Thats what I was thinking, a way Dell can go AMD X2 for its desktop CPU's cheap... I am willing to bet these will flood the market in dell desktop PC's.

  4. Leonardo
    29 Jun '06, 10:48 pm
    Athlon 64 X2 3600+ will be AMD's new assault weapon hitting Intel low in the price bracket with an expected price tag of $139-$160

    Smart move! With the prejudice against AMD processors gone now, for the most part, that part should sell very well.

    Lemonlime, I was thinking the same thing you were concerning the D805s. The 64X2 is ever bit as good or better than the 805. If you consider heat output and power consumption, it's a complete generation ahead of the 805.

    With AMD's secrecy concerning their counterpunch to the now proven excellent Conroe series, I'm very curious as to what great chip AMD has in store for us. Assuming that AMD will again equal or trump Intel again in performance, I would assume that few months from now the performance per cost cost ratio for both AMD and Intel ought to be the best it's ever been. They are really in a performance horse race again.

  5. RWB
    29 Jun '06, 11:15 pm

    Probably just a smidgen slower than my 3800+ X2 but at half the price. heh.

  6. 29 Jun '06, 11:20 pm

    Ya know a sempron is no slouch especially when over clocked. I was wanting an opteron 165 but if these do 2.7ghz oced I'd pick one up in a heart beat.

  7. Mt_Goat
    29 Jun '06, 11:53 pm

    Sounds like time to fill the farm full of X2's!

  8. airbornflght
    30 Jun '06, 2:50 am

    Yeh, these could be good processors. I cant wait to see the market in the next 3-4 months, It is going to be awesome.

  9. Leonardo
    30 Jun '06, 3:04 am
    Sounds like time to fill the farm full of X2's!

    I guess that validates AMD's tactics.

  10. airbornflght
    30 Jun '06, 11:43 am

    Yup, a low cost, relatively well performing processor. And it will sell even better being under the Athlon line.

  11. Leonardo
    1 Jul '06, 4:49 am

    Or, the Athlon line. Hey, we all do misspellings - no big deal. But I just can't handle having AMD's most important brand being stepped on.

  12. airbornflght
    1 Jul '06, 4:48 pm
    Quoting airbornflght

    Yup, a low cost, relatively well performing processor. And it will sell even better being under the Athlon line.
    Quoting Leondardo

    Or, the Athlon line. Hey, we all do misspellings - no big deal. But I just can't handle having AMD's most important brand being stepped on.

    I dont know what you are talking about

  13. TheLostSwede
    3 Jul '06, 10:58 am

    Unless AMD puts out their "new" Reverse Hyperthreading technology very fast, this chip is pretty much useless on anything other than a pure office machine or a htpc machine. Todays gaming machines with high end videocards is cpu-bottlenecked as they are, even with extreme cpu's.

    Games will only utilize 256mb of cache which will seriously cripple the games compared to a 3800+ dualcore. With Reverse Hyperthreading, at least it rises to 512.

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