AMD is announcing eight new additions to its Athlon II desktop microprocessors line today. The new chips are aimed at mainstream computer users looking for bargains on new PCs during the holiday season and include two quad cores (the X4 2.3GHz '605e' and 2.2GHz '600e'), four triple cores (the X3 2.9GHz '435', 2.7GHz '425' and 2.3GHz '405e') and two dual core processors (the X2 2.8GHz '240e' and 2.7GHz '235e').

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