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AMD Athlon II X2 250 Cpu
AMD Athlon II X2 250
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AMD FX 6300 Cpu
AMD FX 6300
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AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Cpu
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Cpu
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
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Is this £50 PC processor a canny bargain or a false economy?Read more
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AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
With several new product releases over the last few weeks, AMD has been on a mission to gain back market share. While Trinity targeted the entry level crowd with a well rounded family of APUs, their Vishera FX-series firmly targets an enthusiast niche that doesn’t need or want onboard graphics...Read more
Six Piledriver cores at 5GHz? Don't mind if I doRead more
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General

Processor socketAM3AM3+AM4LGA 775
Operating modes64-bit
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit
Component for
N/A
PCPCPC

Processor

Clock speed3.0 GHz3.5 GHz3.4 GHz3.0 GHz
Number of cores2662
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W95.0 W65.0 W65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Max turbo speed
N/A
3.8 GHz3.9 GHz
N/A
Number of threads
N/A
6122
Bus type
N/A
N/A
N/A
FSB
Bus speed
N/A
N/A
N/A
1333.0 MHz
Idle states
N/A
N/A
N/A
yes

Memory

Cache2 MB8 MB16 MB6 MB
Cache typeL2L3L3L2
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
N/A
1866.0 MHz2933.0 MHz
N/A
Memory types supported by processor
N/A
DDR3 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
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Memory channels
N/A
N/A
Dual
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Thermals

Thermal specification165.2 °F158.9 °F203.0 °F162.32 °F
Cooler included
N/A
yesyes
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