Packaging
As you all most likely know, you can generally buy processors in two forms. The first being a retail version which comes with the 3 year warranty, fancy box, CPU cooler and warranty guide. Simply put, it’s everything that someone could want (or need) to get going.
For the more enthusiast user, who has NO intention of using a stock CPU cooler and wants to save a bit of money, we have the OEM version which is what we’re looking at today.
We don’t normally receive retail versions, because our samples are presented to us before the official launch. This can sometimes mean that the boxes aren’t ready yet or another multitude of reasons.
So what do we get? We purely get a processor in some kind of protective packaging. Over the period that we’ve worked with AMD, we’ve found it’s placed into a green CPU box with foam packaging to protect it.
You may find that when you come to purchasing an OEM CPU, the packaging could be all different types, but we can use our little green boxes as a reference point.
190 doesn`t sound so bad for that 3.6 turbo speed. but when we`ll see stock speed from AMD at least 3.8 at this price then i`ll consider it 🙂
why not make stable 4 point 0 😀 GHz CPU? Naah Whole pace gathered by the competition between Intel and AMD is good for prices of older models. But what with multi threaded apps? You pay for the 6cores and only few of apps can take advantage of it? That's why i'm using x2 low power CPU in my HTPC. Am I wrong when i will say that i can count those apps with all my fingers ? BTW 190Ł holy smokey! that's almost whole my computer price 😀
I bet you can clock that up even higher, but still, any 6 core processor is beast. I love AMD processors, so cheaply sold which makes it good for people like me. Great review, thank you.