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OCC News: AMD Announces Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition


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As we wait on AMD's new Barcelona and Phenom processor offerings, AMD is extending its existing lineup by announcing a new member of the Athlon 64 family - the Athlon 64 dual-core 6400+ "Black Edition" processor. Clocked at 3.2GHz, the 6400+ is AMD's latest addition to its socket AM2 processor lineup. The Athlon 64 X2 6400+ is built using a 90nm silicon-on-insulator process and feautures a single HyperTransport link and a shared integrated 128-bit wide memory controller (up to 12.8GB/sec bandwidth). The Black Edition is expected to be available August 20, 2007 at an expected price of $239 US in lots of 1000.

 

 

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What makes this a "Black Edition"? The box? I guess I just don't get the blackness of it...

 

Really though, you have to give AMD some credit. They've ridden this A64 architecture HARD for a long time. I'm amazed it's come this far. Let's hope it doesn't have to go any further though. Barcelona is long overdue.

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That's pretty nice at that price. AMD has been giving Intel a run for it's money lately, especially with these prices.

:withstupid: At that price, that's probably the best buy, price-to-performance, right now. If I currently had AM2, I'd consider it, but as I don't, I'm skeptical on moving to AM2 with something else possibly on the horizon.

 

As for the "black edition", that's just stupid. Why don't they get a silverish box and call it the Platinum edition :rolleyes:. At least they could have made the processor black...not that you'd ever see it with an hsf or waterblock on it.

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:withstupid: At that price, that's probably the best buy, price-to-performance, right now. If I currently had AM2, I'd consider it, but as I don't, I'm skeptical on moving to AM2 with something else possibly on the horizon.

 

As for the "black edition", that's just stupid. Why don't they get a silverish box and call it the Platinum edition :rolleyes: . At least they could have made the processor black...not that you'd ever see it with an hsf or waterblock on it.

True, but think about how cool a black CPU would look! ...At least until you lap it. :lol:

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