C2D E7200 vs. X3 8450 June 17, 2008 Alan Cooke Lowtech was a bit shy when he submitted this news story :). At any rate, this is a good comparo of budget CPUs from AMD and Intel. Legion Hardware Never before have we had both companies releasing such powerful processors at such bargain basement prices. While AMD may be loosing the performance war, they still have a number of very impressive processors retailing at very affordable prices. Their flagship quad-core processor, the AMD Phenom X4 9850 ‘Black Edition’, costs just $235 US, while the still potent AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ can be had for just $148 US. Also, for $148 US there is the AMD Phenom X3 8450 processor, featuring three cores each clocked at 2.1GHz with their own 512KB L2 cache FacebookTwitterEmail tagged with Hardware
