Joining the AMD Athlon II range today are six new CPUs, all of which should provide some good bang for buck thanks to the under US$150 price point. The upper end of the new line-up consists of a quad-core Athlon II X4 640 which comes loaded with a 3.0 GHz clock speed, 2 MB of L2 cache and a 95W TDP. The mid-range Athlon II X3 445 comes with a 3.1 GHz clock speed, 1.5 MB of L2 cache and a 95W TDP. Finally, the 3.2 GHz Athlon II X2 260 with 2MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 65W fills out the dual-core sector. Prices for these processors are US$122, US$87 and US$76 respectively.
Also coming to us are three lower power processors – the Athlon II X4 610e, X3 415e and X2 245e with are clocked at 2.4 GHz, 2.5GHz and 2.9 GHz respectively with prices of $145 for the quad, $102 for the triple and $77 for the dual. All three CPUs have a 45W TDP which is perfect for a home server or media PC. All the processors released today should be available in stores pretty soon, if not right now.













