thoughts on new AMD Athlon LE processor?

I've been looking at the various processors out there for nearly 6 months
now, and in the past week became aware of a new release from AMD - the
Athlon LE CPU.

45 Watts
2.44 GHz speed (may overclock to roughly ~ 2.8 GHz)
$50 shipped from Newegg
AM2 platform
1 Megabyte L2 cache
3 year warranty (full box version, with heatsink & fan)

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I bought 3, primarily because:

A) I don't need multi core support at the moment, since most of the software
I use wouldn't benefit from it

B) I leave my system on 24 hours a day to record HDTV programming. This
will save me 1.1 Kilowatt Hours a day, or about $5 per month on electicity.
That means the processor will be FREE (pay for itself) after just a year

C) It's roughly comparable to an Athlon X2 3800 out of the box (but not
after overclocking it)

D) when I DO decide to upgrade to dual core in a year, or year and a half,
the current $160 dual core processors will be dirt cheap, and I'll still be
able to sell this thing for $35 with a 1.5 or 2 year warranty on it


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