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AMD releases Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition for $70

By Justin Mann

On April 29, 2009, 8:00 AM

AMD has added a new CPU to its Athlon family today in the form of a Black Edition desktop part. The X2 7850 BE comes in as an affordable option at just under $70, but will get you a very decent 2.8GHz dual-core unit that’s actually a rebadged 65nm Phenom X4 processor with two cores disabled. The architecture choice also means it supports HyperTransport 3 technology and has 1MB of L2 cache (512KB per core) and 2MB of shared L3 cache.

This was the second piece of low-cost hardware AMD announced yesterday, along with the Radeon HD 4770 graphics card. Glancing over several performance reviews, you can see the company has put together a CPU and GPU pair that offer modest performance for a pretty low price tag. Clearly, they are responding to current market conditions and hope to offer the best value option in the mainstream sector – something they largely lost out on when Intel began pushing out Core 2 and later dual-core Celerons.

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  1. looks like i found what i will use to build my new htpc for the price and performance.... thanks AMD.
  2. [b]Originally posted by kingdingdong:[/b][quote]looks like i found what i will use to build my new htpc for the price and performance.... thanks AMD. [/quote]According to the site linked in this article, the Atlon x2 7850 is comparable to an Intel E5200, which also costs 69.99 at Newegg. It runs at 2.5ghz with a 45nm manufacturing tech instead of the old 65nm. Not a bad deal as well.[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8
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  3. AMD way to go!!For the $$$ AMD is the to go.
  4. [b]Originally posted by kingdingdong:[/b][quote]looks like i found what i will use to build my new htpc for the price and performance.... thanks AMD. [/quote]My thought exactly.

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