In this situation, as a short term measure, AMD might want to consider further slight downward price adjustments for its otherwise pretty good Athlon II 620 and 630 quad-core CPUs that - officially at least - have no L3 cache, but do manage decent performance and some overclocking up to roughly 3.4GHz just on 'autopilot' with good boards, and more if you're willing to tinker around. At around $100, these CPUs can still be quite competitive against Intel's, say, dual-core 3.46GHz Core i5 670, offering equal or better performance - but still at over half more power budget needed.