Price drop of USD$15 today according to camelx3
3700Mhz / 4000Mhz (Turbo Frequency)
FM2+
95W
4MB
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Er, isn'a 4300 AM3+ socket? This is FM2.
Either way, they're both pretty average procs, but might be useful for someeone on FM2…
Yes it is and i know. But AM3+ is better than FM2+.
As i said even the lowest of the AM3+ FX series CPUs is faster than this Athlon FM2+ piece of crap.
Its significantly slower that the 2012 model i5 in this cheap (now) ex-lease office PC.
I don't know why anybody bothers to build their own any more. (And I've built plenty.)
Ahtlon CPUs have always been a slower cut down CPU with far less cache compared to their proper mainstream CPU range (At the moment is the FX series AM3+). The lowest model in the FX series range has twice the amount of cache compared to this poor excuse for a CPU called Athlon. I say if you're going to go with AMD go for the AM3+ technology since it's better than FM2+. At least you get the FX series CPU on AM3+.
Technically incorrect.
AMD Athlon's at one point were the fastest desktop CPUs available, just not for a long time.
Specs are interesting, but the actual benchmarks always trump them:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html
It's one step below my i3-2100, which I keep hearing might not be enough to max some games soon, but haven't actually seen that happen yet.
For this price, I can guess it might actually be a good choice for someone building a $500 gaming rig (I can see a GPU around $250 not being bottlenecked by this CPU).
I'd prefer to go the G3258 route and OC to 4ghz should put it on par, especially when TDP is much lower for a budget build. Especially if you need to save money on a smaller PSU.
Also, my G3258 only bottleneck my r9 380 by around 10FPS at most, on physics heavy games, so can't really see this CPU bottlenek a $250 GPU.
Fire Up Rise of Tomb Raider or Assassins Creed Syndicate…your dual core i3 CPU will weep. These games are properly multi-core optimised and play fine on an AMD FX chip like the 8 core FX8350 especially in Direct X 12 mode.
This deal is only for those who want to build a cheap as chips PC IMHO. Only good for last gen gaming titles.
Expect this Althon CPU to run like crap
It should actually run slightly better than the 4300. It's based on a slightly better architecture with slightly higher IPC.
Yes. In CPU discussions, expect clueless people to say clueless things. With great confidence.
CPU caching has become so technical that the knowledgeable people keep quiet while idiots blather on.
Does he know the hit ratio, or L1 vs L2,L3 latency? "Only 4MB of cache" FFS! If thats not enough, you really need to tighten your loops.
Save your money and buy Intel
These would be slow compared to a proper AMD FX series CPU. Even the lowly AMD FX-4300 4 core has 2 x 4MB cache (L2 & L3 caches). This Athlon CPU here only has a single 4MB cache. Very slow.
Personally i'd get the AMD FX-4300 4 core CPU as a minimum since it has twice the amount of cache of 8mb total. This Athlon has a pitiful little 4mb cache. Expect this Althon CPU to run like crap.