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AMD Athlon II X2 250 Cpu
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Is this £50 PC processor a canny bargain or a false economy?Read more
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The highly successful Core microarchitecture infiltrated desktops and laptops, but don't forget they also made their way into workstations and servers with the rejuvenated Xeon 5100 series. Codenamed Woodcrest, they aren't as expensive as perceived to be as we found out when pitting it against the Core 2 Extreme.Read more
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General

Processor socketAM3AM4LGA 775LGA 771
Operating modes64-bit64-bit64-bit64-bit
Component for
N/A
PCPCServer/Workstation

Processor

Clock speed3.0 GHz3.6 GHz3.0 GHz3.0 GHz
Number of cores2622
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W65.0 W65.0 W80.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Max turbo speed
N/A
4.2 GHz
N/A
N/A
Number of threads
N/A
1222
Bus type
N/A
N/A
FSBFSB
Bus speed
N/A
N/A
1333.0 MHz1333.0 MHz
Idle states
N/A
N/A
yesyes

Memory

Cache2 MB32 MB6 MB4 MB
Cache typeL2L3L2L2
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
N/A
3200.0 MHz
N/A
N/A
Memory types supported by processor
N/A
DDR4 SDRAM
N/A
N/A
Memory channels
N/A
Dual
N/A
N/A

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