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AMD Athlon II X3 445 3.1GHz Triple Core Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Athlon II X3 445
Date: Mon, Jul 05, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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AMD Athlon II X3 445

AMD Athlon II X3 445 Performance Review

The economy today is very uncertain. A large number of people out there that are looking to put a new computer together find themselves trying to walk that fine line between performance and the almighty dollar budget. Many times that will lead them to AMD Processors. In recent years AMD has been leading the market when it comes to price to performance ratios. Today we are going to look at one such processor. The AMD Athlon II X3 445 is a triple core processor that can be found on the web for as little as $84.99 with free shipping at Newegg.com. Currently to add to the value of the AMD Athlon II X3 445 Newegg.com is offering a coupon for a free copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2!

AMD Athlon II X3 445 CPUz

The AMD Athlon II X3 445 natively sits at 3.1GHz across all three cores. Like many of the AMD processors, the AMD Athlon II X3 445 uses a front side bus of 200MHz and features a TDP of 95 Watts. The difference is in the multiplier. The AMD Athlon II X3 445 uses a multiplier of 15.5 to achieve the 3.1GHz clock speed. The AMD Athlon II X3 445 has a L2 Cache of 1.5Mb, the L2 Cache is dispersed 512Kb for each of the three cores. The AMD Athlon II X3 445 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 C1E (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.

AMD Propus Die

The AMD Athlon II X3 445 is built using the Propus die from AMD. Though for various reasons AMD will disable one of the cores. It could be because of a defective core, a core that doesn't meet the thermal requirements, or simply because of quota. The good news about this is, many of todays motherboards have built in technology that will allow you to unlock "extra cores". Of course we are going to give this a go later in the article. For now though let's take a peek at the system that we are going to use for testing today.

 

Next Page - The Test System


Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Athlon II X3 445
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - SiSoft Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth
Page 4 - 3DdMark Vantage
Page 5 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 6 - Hyper Pi
Page 7 - x264 HD Video Encoding
Page 8 - Resident Evil 5
Page 9 - Batman Arkham Asylum
Page 10 - Colin McRae: DiRT 2
Page 11 - Overclocking the AMD Athlon II X3 445
Page 12 - Power Consumption
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion