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45W Athlon X4 quad comes in Q2 |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 10:49 |
Middle of it
If you are after an AMD quad core that will fit the 45W thermal
envelope, we have some good news for you. In early Q2 the company will launch the Athlon X4
605e at 2.5GHz with 2MB cache that will fit the 65W TDP. This CPU is based on
Propus, K10.5 without L3 cache and of course in AM3.
By the middle of Q2 2009 AMD will launch another Athlon X4
branded 6xxe, and this CPU will run somewhere between 2.1Ghz and 2.4GHz and it
will be based on the same Propus core. This will be the first 45W quad core and
many will go after it. There is a good chance that this one might be a good
overclockers, but traditionally 45W CPUs are much cooler than the 65W+ ones.
A 45W TDP is usually a virtue of dual cores and in January, Intel
will introduce its 45W quad cores, as it looks that there is a market for such
products.
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