The AMD Athlon II X2 260 (P/N ADX2600CK23GM) is the fastest dual
core processor in the Athlon II series. The AMD Athlon II series of processors
is a very budget friendly series of processors. This processor sports the new
Socket AM3 938-pin micro-PGA package so it will work in all Socket AM3 and AM2
motherboards with both DDR2/DDR3 memory solutions. The AMD Athlon II X2 260
features a nice and low TDP of only 65 Watts, which will make it easy to keep
nice and cool. Enough techno-babble let’s take a look at how it performs.
Coming clocked at 3.2 GHz the AMD Athlon II X2 260 features
two megabytes of L2 cache shared between two cores. This differs from the
Athlon II X4 series as the X4’s share the two megabytes across all four cores
in a 4×512 kilobytes pattern. Having more L2 cache per core will help in
lightly threaded application. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 also features support
for both DDR2 (up to 1,066 MT/s) and DDR3 (up to 1,333 MT/s). The Athlon II
series is AMD’s first processor with hardware C1 E (a low-power state). Moving
this power state out of the BIOS and into the CPU microcode will enable AMD to
ensure more consistent power management implementation across platforms. This
is good news as systems will be more energy efficient as a result of this
change. Considered as better processor.
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