It has been about a year now since AMD first released their dual core offerings to the public. At that time the X2 4800+ just couldn’t be beat in the majority of applications out there. It even gave the FX-57 a pretty good run for its money in single thread applications, while destroying everything else in multi-threaded applications. At that time the cost of entry for an X2 started at around $500, which was pretty unpalatable for the majority of buyers out there.



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