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AMD Phenom X3 8750 review

Is AMD's new triple-core chip a winner?

Our Score 3.5

Last reviewed: 2008-04-25April 25th 2008

Price at launch £125.00
MPN HD8750WCGHBOX
Features Triple-core, single die; Up to 256TB addressable, dual 64-bit memory controllers, DDR2 up to 1,066MHz
Additional Information HyperTransport 3.0 / SSE4, virtualisation with nested pages, 64-bit data addressing
Cache Type 3x 512k L2 + 1.5MB L3
Manufacturing Process 65nm SOI
Socket AM2/AM2plus
No of Cores 3
Clock Speed 2.4

Product Summary

Phenom X3 8750

Price at launch

£125.00

For

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Unique triple-core layout

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Decent multi-threaded performance

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Against

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Weedy single and dual-threaded performance

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Not quite cheap enough

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