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Athlon II X3 435, Opinions?

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Hello All

I'm in the preliminary stages of putting together a new system. Main purposes are gaming and development.

I was going to go mid-range with either a Phenom II 965 or an i5 750.

However I'd read a few reviews of the Athlon II X3 435, which give the impression that its a pretty useful part, almost the same performance as a X3 720 but much cheaper.

Has anyone else here got one or used one and whats their opinion.

Thanks in advance.
 
Well the Athlon II from what l know is based on the Phenom II core with the L3 cache disabled. It might offer a bit less performance in gaming than the other two processors you were planning to purchase. If l were you l would get the 620. The extra core may come in handy in future games.
 
Greetings obot,

I bought an OEM Athlon II X3 425 and have to say it's a good chip for the money, my first AMD since socket 939 days (2006) so I'm still getting up to speed with the new options but hope to publish some results as soon as I've popped off some 24hour Blend tests! :D

I'm getting the feeling these are gonna be *Killer* chips for normal mortal beings who are trying to get a 2010 box together with a limited budget and that's the main appeal to me and the reason I went this route, the chip and mobo cost me the same price as a Phenom II 720 CPU which puts things into perspective what great value the Athlon II range are! :)

If you wanna know anything more please ask! :cool:
 
Trunks9486 said:
Are these based on Phenom chips? I thought it was the same core as the Athlon II quads with one core disabled.
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Some are Deneb dies, others are Propus dies . . .

The chip code reveals:
  • AACYC = Deneb with locked cache
  • AADAC = Propus Die with no physical cache
amdcpus2009.jpg
 
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Didn't unlock mine yet, the ASUS M4A785D-M PRO (785G/SB710) is compatible but I'm working my way up from the release BIOS to the latest one (?), on the release BIOS I had to clear the CMOS after trying AAC and trust me its a long time since I had to do that, proper borked! . . . . on the newer BIOS I just get a pleasant message stating AAC has failed which is heaps better.

I'm gonna try the most modern BIOS tonight but It's unlikely it will work, never know though! ;)

P.S: mine was a Cut-Price OEM chip from company that sells award winning overclocked machines so I'd say there is a reasonable chance this chip was tested (and failed) before I bought it . . .
 
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is that with the Athlon X2 5000 in your sig?

1GHz overclock is good! :)

I'm 1 hour and 15mins off a full 24 hour Prime Blend, ******* myself as it's blue screened before after 12 hours but adding some vCore seems to have sorted it (finger crossed!)
 
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