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Power consumption is definitely down over the standard 65nm 65W Athlon 64 X2s, but not as low as the old 35W EE SFF parts were. Power consumption and thermal testing, however, did show a significant decrease compared to both 65w processors. Athlon X2 BE-2350 performed exactly as we expected today. Unlike other low power consuming chips where clock speed is severely compromised, the BE-2350 performs as a similarly clocked previous generation X2. Intel currently has no direct answer to this kind of performance at these power levels giving AMD a chance to fall into some unique system designs like home theater PCs and even some small form-factor boxes. The performance of this chip really needs to be taken into consideration when looking at its price as well as its power consumption levels.

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On July 9th AMD desktop processor family will have a reduction in suggested prices. Savings for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual-core) processor family will be about 20% and the AMD Athlon 64 (single-core) processor family will be adjusted by approximately 15%. If you are looking for a great value, look to the AMD Sempron processor, which will also offer savings of about 15%.

Izvor: AnandTech, HotHardware, PC Perspective, ViperLair i AMDZone