AMD Tweaks Processor Prices, Introduces New Socket FM1 Processor
AMD Tweaks Processor Prices, Introduces New Socket FM1 Processor
Posted 11/17/2011 at 2:00pm
| by Brad Chacos
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Oh, AMD, you wiley stage magicians. While the company was busy showing off its Opteron 6200 and 4200 enterprise processors with one metaphorical hand earlier this week, the other metaphorical hand was secretly tweaking prices on several of its processors while everyone was distracted. Heck, they even introduced a new quad-core processor and next to nobody noticed! Penn and Teller, eat your hearts out.
In a somewhat unusual move, AMD raised the price of its dual-core A4-3300 and A4-3400 APUs by a couple of bucks apiece. It wasn’t all bad news, however: the tri-core A6-3500 dropped down to $85 – a $4 decrease – while the six-core FX-6100 saw a full $10 shaved off of its price, bringing it down to $155.
The new addition to the CPU lineup, the quad-core, 3GHz Athlon II X4 651, comes in at $92. Each of the cores has a 1MB L2 cache, and CPU-World.com (which broke the story) points out that it is “the highest clocked model for socket FM1.” No word yet on when you’ll actually be able to buy it, though.
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evdng
November 17, 2011 at 5:57pm
AMD has an eight core cpu for under $300 dollars. I haven't had an AMD Rig since 2002. Now there is a plethora of great processor to choose from at a bargain. Its November November everyone I will buy or better said I will assembly this time an AMD Rib for Holiday.
mothrpe
November 18, 2011 at 8:20am
In the price vs. performance evaluation, the new amd processors can't match sandy bridge. You're better off with a core i3 than most of amd's processors.
ch23
November 17, 2011 at 4:25pm
I don't know how new this is but Newegg is already showing a Athlon II X4 631 processor on the FM1 socket. This is a 2.6 GHz processor that I noticed earlier, but didn't know that AMD is using the F1 for CPUs other than the A series
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