I was just looking on dabs.com to find the prices of the 4850e, and up comes the 5050e! This is news to me... when did that come out? Has anyone here any experience with it yet? Any reviews available?
The price looks good as well.
AMD Athlon X2 5050e
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It is just a 100MHz speed bump--probably not worth the extra $30.Moon GT wrote:I was just looking on dabs.com to find the prices of the 4850e, and up comes the 5050e! This is news to me... when did that come out? Has anyone here any experience with it yet? Any reviews available?
The price looks good as well.
I think AMD has done some silent releases lately like the 45W 2.8GHz LE-1660. Now if they could just release some new 35W X2 chips.
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[quote="QuietOC"]It is just a 100MHz speed bump--probably not worth the extra $30.[/quote]
I think AMD has done some silent releases lately like the 45W 2.8GHz LE-1660. Now if they could just release some new 35W X2 chips.[/quote]
It's £13.60 more on Dabs, ex VAT, but still cheaper than Ebuyer's price for the 4850, somehow. I'm not going to be paying for it anyway. Business expense. Also I won't be making the order just yet so we'll see if it comes down any over the next few weeks.
I think AMD has done some silent releases lately like the 45W 2.8GHz LE-1660. Now if they could just release some new 35W X2 chips.[/quote]
It's £13.60 more on Dabs, ex VAT, but still cheaper than Ebuyer's price for the 4850, somehow. I'm not going to be paying for it anyway. Business expense. Also I won't be making the order just yet so we'll see if it comes down any over the next few weeks.
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$50 4850eTuesday, October 21 2008
Today, AMD is announcing two new processors to its products line - AMD Phenom X3 8850 Black Edition and AMD Athlon X2 5050e. The Socket AM2+ triple core X3 8850 (TRAY OPN# HD8850WCJ3BGH) works at 2.5GHz, has a TDP of 95W and 2MB of L3 cache. The Phenom X3 8850 is the first triple-core Phenom processor to be part of the company's Black Edition series and as such it has unlocked multiplier for overclocking. The AMD Athlon X2 5050e (TRAY OPN# ADH5050IAA5DO) is a dual-core 45W processor that operates at 2600MHz.
Sooner or later AMD is also expected to commence shipments of two low-power chips - the single-core 1.6GHz Athlon 2650 (TDP 15W), and the dual-core Athlon X2 3250e, running at 1.5GHz and requiring up to 22W. November will also see AMD's "Ultra-Value Client (UVC) Solutions", the chips that will possibly compete with Intel Atom CPUs for netbooks. These are only for the OEM customers, though.
$85 5050e
Yeah, I'd take the one that is 40% cheaper and only 4% slower.
I do have to say the black edition X3 is chip I'd like to have. I don't see a price for it yet but if it were cheaper than the 5050e, say halfway between the price of the 4850e and 5050e I'd consider it.