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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

EVEREST ULTIMATE

CPU QUEEN

	22801
	10339

CPU PHOTOWORXX

	15650
	11659

CPU ZLIB

	82355
	37284

CPU AES

	22462
	10111

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "AMD Athlon II X4 645 puts in a great performance against AMD Athlon II X2 240. Using CPU Queen Test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 55% faster. Using the CPU Photoworxx Test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 26% faster. Using the CPU Zlib Test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 55% faster. Using CPU Aes the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is also 55% faster than AMD Athlon II X2 240."

EVEREST ULTIMATE

FPU JULIA

	9125
	4048

FPU MANDEL

	5246
	2424

FPU SINJULIA

	2719
	1226

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "We are now using the FPU tests with Everest Ultimate. Using the FPU Julia Test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 56% faster. Using FPU Mandel the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 54% faster. Using FPU Sinjulia the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 55% faster."

NUCLEARUS MULTI CORE

ALU

	5267
	3923

FPU

	5474
	4463

MULTI THREAD

	17801
	8506

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "We are now using the Nuclearus CPU Benchmark. Using the ALU test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 26% faster. Using the FPU test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 19% faster and using the Multi Thread test the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is a massive 53% faster thanks to Quadcore Technology."

PERFORMANCE TEST

CPU MARK

	3160
	1422

AMD ATHLON II X4 645 AMD ATHLON II X2 240

COMMENT - "We are now using the Performance Test and the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 55% faster CPU Mark compared to the AMD Athlon II X2 240."