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High powered procs may get all the attention, but slapping a Sandy Bridge-E chip into a budget build is akin to slapping a fly with a sledgehammer -- it's just way too much firepower for the job. For folks looking to get their secondary (or tertiary) PC on, AMD is releasing a new low-cost Llano APU designed to fit nicely into the FM1 socket.
All right, maybe the A4-3420 APU is only kind of new: TechPowerUp and DonanimHaber report that OEMs have had access to the chip since the beginning of the year. According to those publications (and double-checked against the OEM specs at CPU-World), the 2.8 GHz A4-3420 rocks a pair of x86-64 cores with 512KB of L2 cache per core, a 600MHz Radeon HD 6410D GPU, and a scant 65W TDP. An on-board dual-channel DDR3 memory controller supports RAM speeds up to 1600 MHz.
The reported price is said to match the TDP at $65 on the nose. Any takers?
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iceman08
March 14, 2012 at 11:45am
Slapping a fly with a sledgehammer may be overkill...but it shows you will stop at nothing to cease its existence, that you have skill in killing a small darting object with a bulky hunk of metal, and your general disregard for the environment which the sledgehammer may come into contact with.
Now excuse me while I go find a sledgehammer, there's a fly in my soup
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dgrmouse
March 14, 2012 at 11:01am
Haha. You state that you've double-checked the stats, so the new $65 chip really must pack 512MB per core.
Teasing aside, the X-series /isn't/ too much firepower for a budget rig, it's just too expensive. If you look at percentage points versus the budget SB chips, it really isn't that much faster.
Brad Chacos
March 14, 2012 at 11:34am
The stats, I double-checked. My copy, apparently not so much. Swapped that 512 MB over to 512 KB.
