Thursday, December 27th 2007

AMD to Stop Taking Orders for Athlon X2 in 2008

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AMD has recently outlined the phase-out schedule for several of its Athlon 64 X2 CPUs, while the Athlon brand name will be re-purposed for upcoming dual-core CPUs based on the K10 core. AMD will stop taking orders for Athlon 64 X2 6400+ black edition and 89W version Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processors in the first quarter of 2008. Last orders for 125W Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and Athlon 64 X2 5600+ processors will be at the end of the first quarter. AMD will also stop taking orders for Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 4000+ processors by the end of this year and will launch a 65W Athlon 64 X2 4600+ clocked at 2.3GHz with 1MB L2 cache in the second quarter of 2008. AMD will also launch a new series of dual-core products based on its next-generation architecture, Athlon 6000, in the later half of second quarter next year. First to launch will be the Athlon 6250 and 6050 with 1MB L2 cache and 2MB shared L3 cache.
Source: DigiTimes

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29 Comments on AMD to Stop Taking Orders for Athlon X2 in 2008

#26
Triprift
Intel had fanboys back then we were just really quiet cus we had nuthing to boast about and the fact intel is top now prooves times can change and Amd can still bite intel in the arse if they get complacent.
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eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
btarunrUnless AMD kept fresh stock of those 2-core chips based on K10 in good quantity, it's unwise stopping the production of some of the current X2's. The Brisbane core is doing good in the market.
Well from looks of it 1MB brisbanes are due out. Now only if we could get a Brisbane 1MB BE CPU.
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Wile E
Power User
suraswamiI too was like you ECS - hrr hoo noo.

But to my opinion lately ECS is million times better than F..kng Gigabyte that I have. ECS answers your phone calls. Very courteous, patient in solving problems. Email service is also fantastic. Within 24 hrs ur Qs are answered.

With Gigabyte I am waiting for them to issue me a RMA(1 week).

The ECS NForce6MA does what it promised to do as stated in the manual and on their website. Though the cpu temps are off the board is rock solid stable for last 2 days. Most of all S3 and S4 state works as it should.

Hopefully they have a bios update for Phenoms.
Good luck with useful BIOS updates on that board. I had the ECS KA3-MVP, and bios updates were terrible. Some of them even removed features. Only one BIOS had CAS and Command Rate adjustments. I won't take a blind chance on another ECS board again.
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#29
suraswami
Wile EGood luck with useful BIOS updates on that board. I had the ECS KA3-MVP, and bios updates were terrible. Some of them even removed features. Only one BIOS had CAS and Command Rate adjustments. I won't take a blind chance on another ECS board again.
I am going to use this board for Media Center purposes. So I don't expect any of those features (if it is there welcome). Tight on a budget and this seems to do the work for me. I had high hopes on that Gigabyte board (K8N-SLI) when I got it on clearance for dirt cheap but failed me. May be I am unlucky. But that board has all the overclocking options.

Infact I returned the ECS KN1 SLI Lite board for this Gigabyte. ECS was $10 cheaper and equally clocked well. Had all the overclocking features (well most of them).
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