Having lost the leadership in the high-end market segment, AMD started conquering the low-end territory. Today we would like to take a closer look at the new Athlon 64 X2 3600+ that boasts the lowest price point of all the dual-core AMD solutions available in the market. We managed to get the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ processor from one of the retail stores, although, unfortunately, it was slightly overpriced and was selling for $150. However, this is still a total newcomer at this time, so the retailers are trying to benefit a bit more from selling this ?fresh and exclusive? new product. Hopefully, the prices will go down soon, since from the formal prospective this Athlon 64 X2 3600+ is seriously behind Athlon 64 X2 3800+ selling for $152: although they both work at the same clock speed of 2.0GHz, Athlon 64 X2 3600+ features half the L2 cache per core: 256KB.

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