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May 16, 2019
Convincing performance for medium-level systems
This is a pretty old and very well known processor. The sample I got can run stably at 3.3GHz, 1.375V, displaying slightly above 4000 in Passmark, on par with Intel Xeon E5440 and AMD A8-5500 APU without overclock. Single-threaded performance is not very impressive, but this was the general drawback of AMD architecture back then.
May 16, 2019
Nice option if you wanna gamble and get a 4-core CPU
1 of 1 found this helpful This CPU is a 3-core Athlon II X3, but with a proper southbridge and some luck you may get a working 4-core Phenom II X4 processor without L3 cache. My own tests show that absence of L3 cache introduces a 5-7% performance penalty relative to a comparably clocked Phenom II X4. I was able to unlock the fourth core without any problem, but the TDP went up from 95W to 125W. So be sure you have a motherboard that can handle 125W processors, if you want to unlock the 4-th core.
Three-core performance is not so impressive, and an Athlon II X2 at a higher clock almost reaches it (probably because of the larger cache per core).