Rumors about the release of processor athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.2 GHz) appeared during April, but until this moment there is no official information. At the same time, phenom generation processors promise to start late and slowly, and such AMD processor can help in the fight with high end intel processors series core 2 Duo, which recently obtained the 1333 MHz system bus and higher default frequencies.
It is known that fresh 90 nm AMD processors , which are released in Fab 30, are capable to be overclocked up to 3.5-3.6 GHz with air cooling. From other side, AMD decided to prolong the life cycle of its 90 nm processors, precisely this technical process allow AMD to saturate their high end price segment.
With the reference to sources among Taiwan motherboard producers , AMD already released such processor models , which works at 3.2 GHz frequency and equipped with 2 X 1 mb cache in the second level. The processor announcement will take place soon, its default enemy is Core 2 Duo e6850 (3.0 GHz). The processor athlon 64 X2 6400+ (3.2 GHz) will not be only inferior to its competitor in speed, but also in price : the wholesale cost of the new high end AMD athlon 64 X2 will be $220-248.
Motherboard producers report that the processor athlon 64 X2 6400+ has the limited overclocking potential, and this is completely predicted. Let us recall that athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.0 GHz) is supplied with 89- watt version .