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AMD's Triple-Core Phenom X3 Processor Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-your-core-is-missing dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD officially launched their triple-core processor offering today with the introduction of the Phenom X3 8750. When AMD first announced plans to introduce tri-core processors late last year, reaction to the news was mixed. Some felt that AMD was simply planning to pass off partially functional Phenom X4 quad-core processors as triple-core products, making lemonade from lemons if you will. Others thought it was a good way for AMD to increase bottom line profits, getting more usable die from a wafer and mitigating yield loss. This is an age-old strategy in the semiconductor space and after all, the graphics guys have been selling GPUs with non-functional units for years. This full performance review and evaluation of the new AMD Phenom X3 8750 Tri-Core processor shows the CPU scales well in a number of standard application benchmarks, in addition to dropping in at a relatively competitive price point."

7 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Re:3 cores sounds "wrong", but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Odd numbers violate my obsessive need for symmetry. Excuse me now while I go and touch the door exactly 12 times.

  2. Re:where is the power of two by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I could remember anything about maths I could probably give you a more precise number
    More precise than a Pentium result, anyway.

  3. Re:3 cores sounds "wrong", but... by Zerth · · Score: 5, Funny

    So trilateral symmetry doesn't cut it for you?

    I suppose it could be worse, you could have some kind of fractional symmetry fetish and only feel normal surrounded by mandelbrot sets and serpenski gaskets.

  4. Re:3 cores sounds "wrong", but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Geo Metro was a pretty popular little car in the USA, and it was a 3-cylinder. They don't make 'em anymore though, since after all, it saved people money.

  5. Re:Missed Marketing opportunity by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Christian Fundamentalists who read the Lost Behind novels.

    That's Left Behind. Lost Behind is the less successful spin-off where we discover that everybody who was carried off by the Rapture just got sent to a tropical island filled with Polar Bears.

  6. Re:where is the power of two by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    College algebra? I learned logs in 8th grade.
    I have been doing logs since I started eating solid food.
  7. Re:3 cores sounds "wrong", but... by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your reply contains 21 words. Please remove one. Thank you.