AMD's 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU launched

[desiibond]

Price: $69
L1 cache: 64KB
L2 cache: 512KB
L3 cache: 2MB
Hypertransport 3.0
max TDP: 95Watts

Reviews:

Neoseeker:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...ws/athlon7850/

The Athlon X2 7850 is a decent processor that is able to power even the latest games. However, when it is coupled with a GTX 260, in some cases it is not fast enough and the system is bottlenecked. I am sure that with an HD4850 or a GTS 250 it will be more than enough. Overclocking it to 3.2GHz prevented the bottleneck in a few of cases so really there is not much missing.

HiTechLegion:

http://www.hitechlegion.com/reviews/...ocessor-review

The Athlon X2 7850 BE performed very well throughout the benchmarks, both in stock and overclocked settings. The stability was very high through all the tests I threw at it. The ability to overclock the chip and the price point that it is in really makes the performance of this chip for the price that much more significant.

Guru3D:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-at...850-be-review/
The Athlon X2 7850BE processor will cost you roughly 79 USD. As such it's really a budget processor. The processor however packs decent muscle and has reasonable overclock potential. Our world however is changing fast and everything is moving slowly to multi-core (more than two) processors. The applications and test software here on Guru3D.com have all been updated over the past year to reflect that fact as best as possible. This is the moment in time where we slowly start to see the real benefit of processors with more than 3 CPU cores, and that definitely showed in the benchmarks. As such budget dual-core processors show a bit of a disadvantage in our charts, anno 2009.

Bit-Tech:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...n-cpu-review/1

The performance of the 7850 Black Edition is unsurprisingly underwhelming compared to the 7750 Black Edition we looked at just four months ago. For a 100MHz speed bump, it offers no additional overclocking headroom because it's still the same 65nm B3 core, and so the limitations are still there.

Overclockers Club:

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/athlonx2_7850/

So what have we seen during these tests? While the AMD Athlon X2 7850 might not be as fast as the triple and quad core processors in raw power, it does hold its own - beating out the Athlon X2 7750 in the majority of the tests, as well as the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 in some as well. Overall, I was impressed with the increased performance of the X2 7850 in the dual core sector.

[acewin]

u first said $69 and going to incease in between the 10$ to bad desibond