AMD Adjusts Some APU, CPU Prices; Introduces New Athlon II Part

[btarunr]

AMD, along with launching several new Opteron processors, retouched prices of its socket FM1 accelerated processing units (APUs), across its A-Series. These include tiny price hikes for its lower-end APUs, A4-3300 and A4-3400; a minor price cut for the A6-3500; a price-cut for the FX-6100; and introduction of the new Athlon II X4 651. To begin with, the dual-core A4-3300 and A4-3400 got hiked by $2, sending their prices from $64 and $69, respectively, to $66 and $71, respectively.

On the other hand, the price of A6-3500 is cut from $89 to $85. The six-core FX-6100 socket AM3+ processor saw a $10 price-cut, sending its price down from $165 to $155. Lastly, AMD introduced a new Athlon II processor in the FM1 package, the Athlon II X4 651, AMD's second, after Athlon II X4 631. This quad-core chip has 1 MB L2 cache per core, and is clocked at 3.00 GHz, 400 MHz higher than the Athlon II X4 631.



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[MikeMurphy]

Where is the A8-3870 Blk chip already???

 

[mav2000]

Well, they need to re price the 8 cores as well....

 

[NC37]

Well, they need to re price the 8 cores as well....

Yeah, something competitive would be good

 

[denev2004]

Oh. Glad to see AMD's 6x1 series will have a higer CR.
That's higer than A8 3850

 

[de.das.dude]

athlon IIs dont have onboard GPUs? is that it?

 

[HossHuge]

There was supposed to be a 65w version of the Athlon II X4 631 (2.6ghz). I wonder where that went?

My Athlon II X4 631 is O/Ced to 3.53 and my temps hit 60+. Those temps are with aftermarket cooling as well. So for them to jump 400mhz with this Athlon II X4 651 tells me either they have lowered the temps somehow or I just have a poopy chip...

 

[HossHuge]

athlon IIs dont have onboard GPUs? is that it?

You are correct sir.

 

[claylomax]

Double post in one minute!

 

[Maban]

athlon IIs dont have onboard GPUs? is that it?

They have it, you just can't use it.

 

[de.das.dude]

hmm locked i see. i was thinking of going the APU way for my next build, but using an unlockable phenom ii 555 and a gt 440 or an hd 6670 is cheaper.

 

[HossHuge]

Double post in one minute!

Ya. My bad.

I had posted the first one as de.das.dude posted his question and I don't know how to add a quote to an edit. It was actually under a minute...

I feel shame..

 

[nt300]

Well, they need to re price the 8 cores as well....

$245 is a little too much for the FX-8150 but you have retailers selling them for $25 to $50 more.

 

[fullinfusion]

Adjust the prices? LMFAO!!! How about adjusting the cpu to get some performance outta the dam thing.