AMD Athlon II X2 260 Dual Core Processor Performance Review
Posted on 2010-05-18 16:46:40 by Thomas De MaesschalckThe AMD Athlon II series of processors is a very budget friendly series of processors. Just because they are budget friendly, by no means are they lacking in performance. Today we have the opportunity to look at one such processor. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 is the fastest dual core processor in the Athlon II series. Read on to find out more!
"The AMD Athlon II X2 260 is built using the Regor core. The Regor core is a native dual core that uses 45nm technology. This processor sports the new Socket AM3 938-pin micro-PGA package so it will work in all Socket AM3 and AM2 motherboards with both DDR2/DDR3 memory solutions. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 features a nice and low TDP of only 65 Watts, which will make it easy to keep nice and cool. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 isn't going to break any world records when it comes to performance. For a $76.00 processor you can't expect it to. With that being said, it performs admirably. In all of the benchmarks performed today it performed at it's best when running lightly threaded applications..."
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