Testseek.com have collected 33 expert reviews of the AMD Athlon 2 X2 255 3.1GHz Socket AM3 and the average rating is 77%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Athlon 2 X2 255 3.1GHz Socket AM3.
June 2010
(77%)
33 Reviews
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Abstract: 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...
Abstract: Dealing with current news means that we rarely have the opportunity to review old products and of course a comparison between the most recent products and those that came out several years ago can get a little problematic. But we’ve decided to push th...
For a budget chip, the 255 and 260 perform well. The cutting of the L3 cache is disappointing, but understandable as a means of cutting production costs. The price difference between them is only about $10 and that still puts both of them cheaper than...
The Athlon-II X2-255 performed very well against our Intel processors. The goal of this article was to find out how viable the Athlon-II X2-255 is as an upgrade option for budget minded users who want to get more out of their computers. Many users may...
Outperforming the competition in lightly threaded apps proves the AMD Athlon II X2 255 will be a solid choice if you're likely going to run mainly lightly threaded programs. ...
Runs cool, 65W TDP, Overclock very well (with higher voltage), Quad core
Price
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Abstract: Today’s CPU introductions from AMD don’t really change this: a 100MHz speed bump just isn’t big enough to really boost performance significantly. We do appreciate the fact that AMD’s giving us this 100MHz speed bump for free though, and also bringing back..
Abstract: There's no question that AMD's pricing strategy with these five new chips was aggressive and intelligent, with all the CPUs except the Phenom II X4 910e priced below Intel's recent Core i5 and Core i3 offerings. But, at least in our tests, the four..
Abstract: Chew*, a prominent TechREACTION community member, has used an old Prometeia Mach 1 phase-change cooling system to take a new budget Athlon II X2 255 CPU to it’s limits! Chew* wanted to show what the average user could achieve with this chip, and wh...
