AMD Launches unlocked Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition processor

Desktops, Processors - Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Coinciding with the company’s 40th year anniversary, AMD has announced the Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition processor for mainstream PCs. Claimed by AMD to offer the best price-performance by a mainstream processor under $70, the “Black Edition” is unlocked to allow for more flexible overclocking.

Based on AMD’s improved K10 Kuma architecture, the 65nm 7850 Black Edition runs on a 2.8GHz core, a 523KB L2 cache, and a 2MB L3 cache, and supports AMD’s HyperTransport 3.0 technology for a wider 28.5 GB/s system bandwidth.

It’s priced at around $69, the new CPU works well with AMD’s 7-Series chipsets and ATI Radeon HD 4000 series GPUs for an HD-optimized platform that shouldn’t break the bank.