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For the price, the new Athlon II X2 240e and Athlon II X3 435 are great performers, however, for a few dollars more you can upgrade to a Quad Core Athlon II X4 620 which outperforms both of these processors in CPU intensive benchmarks. While the gaming benchmarks are close, the majority of the computing for...
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This past October, AMD accomplished a world's first. It became the first company to release a sub-$100 quad-core processor to the market, and given how much Intel has been dominating the CPU landscape as of late, it was great to see the green team at...
Throughout all of our performance results, we saw both the 435 and 240e fall well behind all of the other processors in our line-up, but of all the near-20 processors in these charts, these two CPUs from AMD are only two of the four in our chart that...
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Home Theater PCs have been all the rage in recent years. As people turn more and more to internet-based services like Hulu and NetFlix to get their entertainment, the demand for devices that can handle all that media and stream it to your TV has shot...
With the Athlon II X2 240e, AMD has delivered a CPU that delivers phenomenal bang for your buck. It is excellent for HTPCs where silence and low heat output are chief concerns. It does well with the tasks you’d ask a HTPC to do, and has enough mus...
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While AMD is not releasing any processors here based on wholly new architecture, the Athlon II X3 435 (try saying that in under 3 seconds), and the Athlon II X2 240e are welcome additions to the ranks of the value-minded Athlon II CPU family...
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Green is a hot adjective. In fact, it was one of the fastest growing buzzwords in 2008. Across every industry, green is the new black, being slapped on products that destroy the earth only slightly less than other products. There are truly green produc...
This CPU is not going to be for everyone. As we learned in our recent Athlon II X4 620 review, you can get a quad core for around the $100 mark. With the Athlon II 240e debuting at $77, its price is within striking distance of the 620. Nonetheless, th...
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A month ago AMD introduced the world’s first quad-core processor to debut at $99. Last week, AMD announced its third quarter earnings for 2009. While the company as a whole lost money, the Product Company (CPU and GPU design) turned a small profit. I d...
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AMD has been slamming out new processors in the past years, tweaking and making their older processors even better and faster. With the launch of AMD's new Athlon II X2 240e processor, this is not an exception. The new AMD Athlon II X2 240e processor...
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For most consumers,the overall value of the product in question is usually the most important factor in making a purchasing decision. And its not a coincidence that AMD is flooding the market with affordable CPUs at every possible price point...
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The Athlon II X3 435 really has Intel beat in the price range for the performance. The addition of the third core really helps out in multithreaded tasks when a dual core would be maxed out. Costing only $87, it's a great value. The Athlon II...
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The AMD Athlon II X2 240e is a 2.8GHz dual-core processor based on the AMD Regor core with a TDP of just 45W. The 'e' behind the Athlon II X2 240e model name indicates that it's one of AMDs Energy Efficient processors. mfg'r link category date p...
Making a processor like the Athlon II X2 240e is something that AMD wouldn't have been able to do even a year ago, when the company was stuck on a 65nm manufacturing node and its processors tended to suck a lot of power and make a lot of heat...
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Athlon II X2 240e and Athlon II X3 435 are faster than similar-priced CPUs from Intel (with two exceptions, on Photoshop CS4 Intel CPUs were a little bit faster and on After Effects Celeron E3200 was 16% faster than Athlon II X2 240e, but...
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amdzone.com Updated: 2011-07-30 03:59:35
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What more can you say other than if you want a sub-$200 processor AMD is really the place to be. They are unmatched by Intel and will be until at least sometime into 2010. One bad thing is that all these part names are a little confusing the model numbers can definitely be more than tough to match up with what is actually going on...
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firingsquad.com Updated: 2011-07-30 03:59:35
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While the wide array of CPUs AMD’s now offering in this space is definitely a bit hard to follow, at the same time it’s also refreshing to see so many choices on the market. Whether you need two, three, or four cores, and based on your performance and power needs, AMD’s got something for everyone in the value segment...
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hitechlegion.com Updated: 2011-07-30 03:59:35
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The X2 240e has a focus that is slightly different than that of the X3 435. The 240e is part of the green movement by AMD in which the processors designated “e” operate on a low wattage scale. This makes these chips ideal for...
Good overall performance, Price, Optimized for upcoming Windows 7, Reverse Compatibility, DDR2 and DDR3 Memory support, Green series gives low wattage performance for high efficiency and low CPU temperatures...
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There has been a lot of activity among the CPU manufacturers within the mainstream market, with little attention being paid to the budget market. AMD has successfully refocused on this somewhat forgotten market and delivered to the consumer two budget...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2011-07-30 03:59:35
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Intel may have cornered the market on high-end desktop processors for the time being with its über-expensive Core i7-975 and its somewhat less expensive quad-core variants. But AMD, ever-cognizant that the mainstream and budget arenas are...
Uses roughly half the power of similarly speedy CPUs; budget price; sufficient speed for most everyday tasks; AM3, AM2+ support...
For little more money, triple- and quad-core CPUs offer better performance (particularly for content creation)...
This dual-core CPU offers good budget-grade performance for everyday PC tasks while consuming half the power of similar chips under full load...
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Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside! 86 C...
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This review is also available in German.Since about three months ago, AMD is selling energy efficient versions of the heavily delayed AMD Propus die. The core has lost its massive L3 cache, but AMD decided to increase the L2 Cache to 1MB per core. All...
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