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AMD's "Black Box" Athlon 64 X2 6400+

Posted by kdawson on from the back-in-black dept.

MojoKid writes "Rumors of a new high-end AMD Athlon 64 X2 chip circulated in July, but availability and specifics of the chip were unconfirmed at the time. Now AMD has officially taken the wraps off their new Athlon 64 X2 6400+, a 3.2GHz dual-core chipset to compete with Intel's Core 2 E6750 and E6850 series. HotHardware notes that the new 6400+ is still built on AMD's 90nm fab process and has a single 2-GHz HyperTransport link and 2 MB of on-chip L2 cache (1 MB per core), just like its predecessor the 6000+. The new processor is said to be a 'channel only' offering and will retail at $239 or so, in a black retail box (picture here) without a heatsink."

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  1. Yes but by clickclickdrone · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Does it run Linux?

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    I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
    1. Re:Yes but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      I can only imagina that working in a beowulf cluster of these!

      unless off course we are in soviet russia, where linux would us!

    2. Re:Yes but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Thank you "Redundant -1" mod!

      Thank you "Redundant -1" mod!

  2. Oblig, with a twist by FoolsGold · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, but does it run... AMIGA OS!?!?