If someone buys these singles for their ''gaming rigs'', I'm honestly going to kill that person. :banghead:

Anyway, guess you can use these on a low-end, EXTREMELY low-end HTPC, or something.

XolairIf someone buys these singles for their ''gaming rigs'', I'm honestly going to kill that person. :banghead:

That's funny -- I don't remember all games currently available for the PC being multi-core enabled... :wtf:

A single core is still more than useful for gaming -- maybe in a few years it won't be, but for now, it is.

Athlon LE-1660 (2.8GHz) - that's actually an FX-57 for AM2 socket. :-)
A legend reborn.

I played Crysis on my single core on HIGH :D

If the prices are nice (and I assume they will be extremely nice) then it might be good.

shame they ever dropped decent single core chips in the first place..

trog

trog100shame they ever dropped decent single core chips in the first place..

trog

Why you gotta be like that trog? Let us AMD fans be...

because hes an ass clown :roll: j/k. Its not a shame they dropped them. I mean lets face it, if you can get 2 for the same price as one, wouldnt you take it? I know I would. And I gotta agree, them LEs are beast and killer ocers.

WarEagleAUbecause hes an ass clown :roll: j/k. Its not a shame they dropped them. I mean lets face it, if you can get 2 for the same price as one, wouldnt you take it? I know I would. And I gotta agree, them LEs are beast and killer ocers.

u didnt get two for the price of one.. silly arse.. u got two rubbish clockers for the price of one good clocker (3.3 gig two years ago) which is why i am glad to see a decent single core chip back.. assuming it clocks like the old one did..

i will also be glad to see the 3 core phenom when it arrives soon at 2.5 gig.. at last amd looks like they might have something to sell thats worth buying.. :D

trog

XolairIf someone buys these singles for their ''gaming rigs'', I'm honestly going to kill that person. :banghead:

Come get some, dude! :nutkick:

I play a few sim type games (rFactor, the IL-2 series, etc.) and am VERY happy with my single core gaming rig. My Le-1620 at 3.45G does just fine, thank you. The $ saved allowed me to get a decent vidcard (HD3870) and a stand alone sound card (just a used Audigy2 ZS, but it sounds fantastic.). I'm getting 100~200 FPS with 98% of the eye candy on, and high filtering levels. Seriously, what more could I ask for?

Unlike some around here, I live in the real world, where money does not grow on trees, and is not to be spent without good reason. I'll be happy to buy a multi-core WHEN the games I play need and support it. Until then, I have better things to spend my $ on. Don't get me wrong, I'm hardly destitute, and would enjoy overclocking a Q6600 or similar to 3.5GHZ, or whatever they're hitting. But would the enjoyment be worth $200 bucks? No. And, again, what would I use all this HP for? Benchmark pissing contests? Whoopie... :wtf:

GeonerdCome get some, dude! :nutkick:

I play a few sim type games (rFactor, the IL-2 series, etc.) and am VERY happy with my single core () rig. My Le-1620 at 3.45G does just fine, thank you. The $ saved allowed me to get a decent vidcard (HD3870) and a stand alone sound card (just a used Audigy2 ZS, but it sounds fantastic.). I'm getting 100~200 FPS with 98% of the eye candy on, and high filtering levels. Seriously, what more could I ask for?

Unlike some around here, I live in the real world, where money does not grow on trees, and is not to be spent without good reason. I'll be happy to buy a multi-core WHEN the games I play need and support it. Until then, I have better things to spend my $ on. Don't get me wrong, I'm hardly destitute, and would enjoy overclocking a Q6600 or similar to 3.5GHZ, or whatever they're hitting. But would the enjoyment be worth $200 bucks? No. And, again, what would I use all this HP for? Benchmark pissing contests? Whoopie... :wtf:

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^^ You CAN get pretty decent dual-core CPU's nowadays that are most likely much better then single-core ones, and they don't cost a fortune.

I just don't see the reason why to buy a far less future-proof CPU, than 'waste' your money on a single-core CPU and then wondering ''OMG, my games lag and stutter strangely although I have a HD3870 X2 and 4GB of memory in my computer.'' Those games of yours are quite old too, so of course they don't require a quad-core CPU. If you only play older games though, then of course it's a whole different story. :D

Anyway, this all is just an opinion of mine, no hard feelings. I just feel that it's totally useless to get a single-core CPU nowadays.