New AMD Athlon X2 7850 BE Delivers Up to 55% Greater Value over Competing Products

[opethian]

New AMD Athlon X2 7850 BE Delivers Up to 55% Greater Value over Competing Products
AMD today announced the AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition processor, delivering leading technology and strong performance to the mainstream PC user for under $70 MSRP. Focused on designing and developing new products and platforms over the last 40 years, AMD's unique technologies continue to create compelling user experiences at an exceptional value. As part of this anniversary celebration, the newest addition to the AMD Athlon X2 7000 series of processors delivers a superior dual-core, performance-per-dollar PC experience for solutions at home and at play.

Given the current economic environment, consumers are seeking the best computing value without sacrificing the performance required to maintain their digital lifestyle. This new processor enables AMD technology partners and OEMs to address the industry need for affordable, powerful and energy efficient desktop PCs that help consumers to quickly and easily create, enjoy and share their digital world.

Consumers looking for an enhanced digital experience or tweaking and tuning their systems for the latest games. The AMD Athlon™ X2 7850 Black Edition processor is geared towards this growing segment of value-conscious PC users; those seeking a full-featured product with best-in-class price-performance for the changing face of everyday computing.

Consumers living a digital lifestyle may be able to realize an immediate benefit from AMD dual-core processors with the capability to better create, render, transfer and share their multimedia content.
The AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition processor helps consumers maximize their platform with hardware matched to deliver a superior experience with outstanding headroom. In fact, not only do these new processors perform exceptionally well in all-AMD platforms, they also provide as much as 55% greater value over competitive products.
Leading into AMD's 40th anniversary, the company continues to maintain its focus on designing and developing unique CPU and GPU technologies at an exceptional value. When combined with AMD 7-Series chipsets and the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards, the new AMD Athlon X2 7850 processors can bring HD video to life while delivering massive performance headroom and video processing acceleration.
Source: AMD

 

[Sire Ahsan]

For the love of god post some unbiased news.

AMD ki bak bak :S wth .. ? :S

 

[hasanJ]

Core2Duo has wiped the floor clean in the Dual Core segment and the market has now moved on to Quad Cores
ab kya faida?? :S

 

[iameXtreme]

yaar seriously now whenever i come to hardware section it seems more like a news forum than a proper hardware discussion forum. sir ahsan...please make a seperate thread for AMD boys....and all amd news should go in there....no offence to ppl who have amd im sure you love it a lot....and you're proud of it but seriously...this is just like one o those XBOX 360 VS PS3 type discussions. theres no end to it so people trying to prove that AMD is better PLEASE STOP MAN...and the same goes for INTEL. gettin tired o this shit

 

[Bluff Master]

yaar seriously now whenever i come to hardware section it seems more like a news forum than a proper hardware discussion forum. sir ahsan...please make a seperate thread for AMD boys....and all amd news should go in there....no offence to ppl who have amd im sure you love it a lot....and you're proud of it but seriously...this is just like one o those XBOX 360 VS PS3 type discussions. theres no end to it so people trying to prove that AMD is better PLEASE STOP MAN...and the same goes for INTEL. gettin tired o this shit

Yeah agreed that It should not be a news but how many of thread you have seriously found out as news, yes there are some also related to Intel, well i have earlier requrested to all members pls eschew the war of fanyoyism. Sorry brother you are throwing all shit to amdians, which i think are not too many, whereas there are other intelians who are no so good in their arguments.

So please all members, inlcluding me, should show some seriousness rather then just countering other member's arguments and best way to prove is to post the results of thier respective setup.

Thanks

 

[opethian]

FOR GOD SAKE PEOPLE

i am online after 4 days or 3days n just posted three news posts ... khair i am not biased sir ahsan ...
2ndly i agree to alienware ... a small subsection like modders workshop wagera will make this section so clean ... atleast me n gesh will be happy with our own section

 

[abobobilly]

good share Captain Saab.
My old system still has the AMD Athlon X2 6000+ processor.... good to hear the 7000 serious came out in a new way. Good processors & Black Edition .......... ..... WOW
Dual Core Amd's are still the Best Budget processor

afterall
Proud to be an AMD-ian
(lmao)
(let see the comments of fanboyism [sir ahsan] on this one)

 

[opethian]

also look out for news regarding unlocked amd x2z with 4 cores enabled

Athlon X2 7750 BE Unlocked to Quad-Core
Earlier this year, a Korean source had pointed out an easy method to enable a fourth core on the Phenom II X3. This was made possible by the way AMD has been designing its triple-core and dual-core processors based on the K10 "Stars" architecture: by disabling one or two cores on the quad-core die. "Sloppy" BIOS coding lead to the Phenom II X3 anomaly. It looks like a somewhat similar mod enables not one, but two cores on the sub-$100 Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition. A Korean technology website GiggleHD.com has reported a successful unlock of two cores.

The method is similar to that of the Phenom II X3 unlock: using flaws in BIOS code to enable cores, by enabling the "Advanced Clock Calibration" feature in the BIOS setup. The OS, Windows XP SP3, was able to see the processor as a "AMD Phenom(tm) FX-7750", while CPU-Z reads the name string correctly and lists the core count as 4. The motherboard in use is an ASRock A790GX/128M.

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Source: Gigglehd.com

 

[Sire Ahsan]

Need not worry about the sections ... something is going to be done about it shortly.

Back on the topic, I wonder what "proof" does AMD have to support this claim

 

[Gameover]

i totally Agree with Alienware - its a forum and should be used for discussion not just posting news what ever you come across with. and more over if your posting dont just copy paste it from the source we can all visit those site if we just wanted to read that news.

write in your own words or explain the key points - advantages disadvantages rathar than just copy pasting from different sources. its easy to copy paste and make new thread. this should be addressd.

 

[devildante99]

You do realise that not many people visit every site there is, at least i dont, dont have that much free time.

The hardware zone is for news and other things, nothing wrong with this, only the fanboys should be controlled.

 

[Chugi]

Absolutely. Although there is some economic sense in this novel.

Most people in the world use applications that could easily run on a single core computer.

So they are not bothered with Quad cores and WILL consider the 100 or so dollars they will have to pay for a quad core over a dual core.

SEcondly, intels dual cores are a tad more expensive and computing is after all a luxury for 99.9 percent of the earths populace. So in a recession what happens???

Third, AMD dual cores dont need new boards to old board owners will find it the cheaper and more affordable route to dual core bliss.

period.

 

[ubuntu83]

This card is a good upgrade for all those who own AM2 boards and are stuck with older Athlon and Athlon X2's.

 

[Sire Ahsan]

Third, AMD dual cores dont need new boards to old board owners will find it the cheaper and more affordable route to dual core bliss.

WHO in the world tells you that

You need an AM2+ motherboard for this processor here ... most of the original Athlon64s (single core) are either on S754 or S939! You cant get this to work on those two sockets. It was only in the end that the AM2 single cores came out, almost all of the original single core users have S754 or S939, not AM2+.

There are only a few people out there with the AM2 boards with Single Core who will benifit from that (compared to S754/939 single cores). But that again aint no "Oh wow AMD gives us such a cool option" thing.

People owning Intel Pentium 4s on the D945/965 chipset ... also can run the same Intel Core 2 Duos now

 

[hzahid]

Take a look at following hardware survey by steam (March 2009) hope it will be helpful for you or any one else if not known already.

Some of the key points are:

GPU Usage:

Nvidia ---> 65.81%
Ati ---> 27.34%

CPU Usage
Intel=66.24%
AMD=33.75%

# of CPU Per PC
1Core=14.64 %
2Core=56.15%
4Core=28.73%

4 Core Adoption rate= +5.96%

rest can be found from here

 

[Chugi]

That means that the dual core segment remains the most competitive. And largest segment.

And i have an AM 2+ board so it makes sense for me.

 

[Sire Ahsan]

And i have an AM 2+ board so it makes sense for me.

Not really.

AM2+ is subpar on performance ... and high priced in Paksitan. You'd be better off trading in for a 3500rs Intel Board with a E5200 and overclocking it if you have an AMD single core.

 

[ubuntu83]

Not really.

AM2+ is subpar on performance ... and high priced in Paksitan. You'd be better off trading in for a 3500rs Intel Board with a E5200 and overclocking it if you have an AMD single core.

He already owns a decent AM2 board. So trading it off with a low end Intel board is not a sensible thing to do.
If his main usage is games then X2 7850 is ahead not subpar.

for benchmarks see this ----> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3554

 

[Bluff Master]

E5300 is faster regarding applications however in games 7850 rocks

 

[abobobilly]

E5300 is faster regarding applications however in games 7850 rocks

Athlon Dual Core series is still one of the best out there. So i guess my vote is also for 7850