![]() I felt the MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 AM3/AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Micro ATX (mATX) was not an appropriate home server motherboard and therefore switched it to the slightly more expensive, but much better Gigabyte offering, the GA-880GM-UD2H Socket AM3 880G mATX. I made a few tweaks to the test setup over the previous review. The unexpected was how close the WEI score was to the Athlon II X2 260 Regor. For the quick synopsis, the Athlon II X4, as expected, uses more power but also provides much faster x264 encode times. I will keep this review relatively short due to the fact the Athlon II X2 260 review was quite lengthy, and this is essentially the same architecture with two more cores. AMD has a CPU right in the Intel Core i3-530 and i3-540 range that is very competitive in terms of price/ performance. It would have been nice to see a Athlon II X4 4MB L2 cache part, but for more on-die cache one can just look to the Phenom II line with its 元 cache, so the Athlon II X4 does make sense given AMD’s market segmentation. While the architecture between the Athlon II X2 260 and Athlon II X4 640 are similar, the dual core part runs 200MHz faster and has 1MB of L2 cache per core versus the quad core’s 512KB of L2 cache per core. AMD has virtually every $5 increment in the sub-$120 CPU space covered, so today I am looking at a CPU that costs approximately $30 more, but has two additional cores. Recently STH took a look at the AMD Athlon II X2 260 Regor chip and found it to be fairly power efficient and fast enough for most tasks. ![]()
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