AMD ATHLON II X4 645

"We are testing the AMD Athlon II X4 645 CPU against the AMD Athlon II X2 240 CPU to find out if raw speed is a match for cheapness? The AMD Athlon II X4 645 is clocked at 3100Mhz while the AMD Athlon II X2 240 is clocked at 2800Mhz which is 10% slower. Another advantage the AMD Athlon II X4 645 has is it's Quadcore while the AMD Athlon II X2 240 is only using Dualcore. The AMD Athlon II X4 645 type Propus is a Socket AM3 Processor operating at 3100Mhz, has a Front Side Bus speed of 400Mhz and 4x512K L2 Cache. The AMD Athlon II X4 645 supports MMX+, 3DNow+, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, x86-64 and AMD-V. Benchmarks are:- Windows Experience, Cinebench, Computmark, Everest, Nuclearus, Performance Test. 3dmark are 3dmark 2006, 3dmark Vantage and 3dmark 11. Games are Hawk 2, Lost Planet 2, Mafia 2 and Dawn of War 2."

"Exceptional Performance allow you to do more in less time and take advantage of true multi-core performance and true multitasking capability. Get a PC experience optimized to deliver the benefits of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. Convert music, HD video, and other media fast. Manage all your home media files and run the software you need to create, share and your media."

"Get superior performance with the AMD Athlon II X4 645 and enjoyment from your PC experience with next generation processor technology for hassle free, efficient computing. With next-generation processor technology you can enjoy superior application performance. Convert music and HD video fast. Get superior performance on many of today's most popular applications for an amazing experience. Enjoy a responsive PC with next-generation AMD Direct Connect Architecture."

	SYSTEM INFORMATION
PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON II X4 645
	AMD ATHLON II X2 240
MOTHERBOARD	FOXCONN M61PMV
VIDEO CARD	PALIT GEFORCE GTS 450 SONIC
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v260.89 WHQL
MEMORY	CORSAIR 4GB DDR2 XMS2 DOMINATOR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS 7 SP1

WINDOWS EXPERIENCE

PROCESSOR

	7.3
	6.2

MEMORY

	7.3
	7.0

GRAPHICS

	7.1
	7.1

GAMING GRAPHICS

	7.1
	7.1

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "Windows Experience shows that the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 16% better Processor and even gives you an extra 5% with Memory thanks to it's improved design. The Graphics and Gaming Graphics test the Video Card so both are the same."

CINEBENCH 11.5

CPU

	3.16
	1.47

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "The Cinebench 11.5 CPU test clearly favour the AMD Athlon II X4 645 which wins by an impressive 54%."

COMPUTEMARK

SCORE

	1465
	1353

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "It would appear that Computemark doesn't use Quadcore because the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 8% faster than the AMD Athlon II X2 240."