Athlon x2 5000+ (AMD K8 with 45nm?)

[demonkevy666]

I have seen a lot of people saying it has half the cache or 1/2 cache DA? Well I dont believe that is the case I think either a denab with 2 cores/caches and l3 DA or a Propus X2, taking the L2 and doing a split seem a little strange to me. If the yield is that bad then perhaps AMD has some big fab problems.

you can't have bad yields if you get X amount of partial good cpu's if means your volume is high, failure rate is an unknown at this point.

some chips might not be bad either just needed to make volume.

at $58 this is steal with acc board. clock speed is low that is the only problem.

[Archer0915]

you can't have bad yields if you get X amount of partial good cpu's if means your volume is high, failure rate is an unknown at this point.

some chips might not be bad either just needed to make volume.

at $58 this is steal with acc board. clock speed is low that is the only problem.

I can see your point but I still see an issue.

Why would AMD do this as there is already a CPU at this price point with the regor being $4 more? I could understand if they had been in a crunch but, this proc was released into a market that really did not need it. Perhaps they have a new stepping and want to clear the old out?

Why not ramp up the mulit a little since it is locked?

Could also be for bios/mb comparability reasons but I doubt it.

I was pointing out that it is strange.

Back when I was in management I had a little motto: "slow down to increase profitability and then slowly ramp up production with the highest quality in mind"