AMD X2 6500+ coming

[Donnie27]

Actually, x4 9950 is priced very well for AMD, both Q66/Q82 is more expensive, but x4 9950 can compete with these two pretty well. But yea, this x2 is totally wrong priced, E5200 should be competitor for this. E5200 costs around 70eur.

Sure, I just helped a couple of buds pick out good budget systems with a 5600+. One E7200 and one 5600+. Money is tight right now and BOTH are with what they ended up with. When all the flames and bickering is over with, that's all that matters. Must folks will NOT make good use of a Quad core processor. There aren't enough of us geeks to make a difference for Intel or AMD. If either is depending on us, they're screwed.

Again, way too many folks don't uderstand Bang for Buck and how 5600+ made a very good showing for itself for what it costs. It consistantly showed its excellent Value. It's dollar to FPS, Saconds saved, and etc.. kept it at the top of the charts. Think 6500@2.3GHz can do the same?

3.2Ghz 6400+ K8 vs a 2.3Ghz dualcore K10 6500+? Talk about marketing...

you have a point but that can also be said about your beloved brand....

Instead of leaving that open ended, why not give us a link? Not the first time the naming shenanigans have went one. TBread and Barton had similar tricks where older models were faster than their newer name sakes.

It is not completely clear why AMD decided to brand its 2.30GHz processor as Athlon 64 X2 6500, as based on performance estimates, the Athlon X2 6400 (3.20GHz) can offer similar or even higher performance compared to AMD Phenom X3 8750 (2.40GHz). As a result, the new model 6500 may be slower compared to the old model 6400.

In other words, it (6400+) is faster than an X3 at 2.4GHz, why name this one 6500+ at 2.3GHz and only two cores? The whole PR thing was to mislead right from the start.