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Athlon II X3 or Phenom II X2?

nVital · 2010-07-04 03:02:25

Both cpus have similar price and clock speed. But which will perform the best overall? AMD Phenom II X2 545 / 3 GHz vs AMD Athlon II X3 435 / 2.9 GHz

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04-07-2010 4:02am

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nVital

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Both cpus have similar price and clock speed.

But which will perform the best overall?

AMD Phenom II X2 545 / 3 GHz

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AMD Athlon II X3 435 / 2.9 GHz

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#2 04-07-2010 5:14pm
Solitaire

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A nasty question. The increased cache of the Phenom will make it slightly better for single- and dual-threaded apps with a hankering for cache (crypto, compression/archiving and gaming) while the third core on the Athlon will make it vastly superior (well, ~47% faster to be exact) during heavy multitasking or in any program that can utilize more than two cores, particularly encoding and modern gaming (try playing a modern console port with just two cores! ).

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#3 05-07-2010 2:10am
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As i know you can unlock the 4 core in the x3 . If you do that and you'll overclock it to 3.0 or 3.2 as i'll do you will get extra performance.

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#4 05-07-2010 4:33pm
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You can also unlock two more cores in the Phenom II, if you're lucky like I was.

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