The BE2350 is based off of AMD's Brisbane core which is manufactured with a 65nm process, down from previous 90nm of earlier Athlon dual cores which helps in regards to heat, power consumption, and manufacturing cost. They are rated at a very low 45W TDP so the clockspeed isn't too high, 2.1GHz for the 2350 we'll be reviewing and 1.9GHz for the other model introduced, the 2300. This is done by a selective process and also lowering the voltage. As you'll see later increasing the voltage gives us quite a bit more overclocking room in reaching higher speeds, though defeating the purpose of a low power CPU. They operate at 1.25V and feature 128KB of L1 cache per core and 512KB of L2 cache as with other recent X2 models. As you've probably read here the BE models of Athlon processors are just now starting to show up at e-tailers such as Newegg and ZipZoomFly for under $95. This is about $25 more than the X2 4000+ which also comes in at 2.1GHz.



Link: AMDZone