AMD Athlon II X2 250

Specifications

The AMD athlon ii x2 250 is a great budget computer processor for your pc. The best bang for your buck is a dual-core processor from Intel or AMD. I believe that either computer CPU can be great depending on how you use it. If you are more of a rebel you tend to go with AMD as do I!

Speed - 3 ghz

Power - 65 watts

Size - 45 nanometers

Hyper Transport - 4000 mhz

Cores - Dual

Cache - 2 MB

Overview

The amd athlon ii x2 250 is definitely the right computer cpu if you are planning on just working on your day to day stuff and need some extra power to handle multiple reports and graphical stuff. It will also handle any need that your family will need from email to computer games with no problems. Some computer games will look much better with a quad core processor powering them, but that is not the focus of this computer processor. You can find great quad core computer processors at my cpu reviews webpage.

The important part is you won't have to upgrade for a while with this computer cpu. It delivers the power you need along with the 64 bit technology, which will last a while now that business is slower and demand has slowed down many technological advancements. You will still be able to save energy and keep your system cool without much fuss.

If you are overclocking amd 250 you will find that it is pretty good at that as well. People have pushed this to 3.7 with a stock cooler and some arctic silver 5. With energy consumption and cooling technology that is built-in it is amazing how far you can push this line of computer processors.

Price

You can purchase the AMD Athlon II X2 250 for around $60 from an online retailer. You will be hard pressed to find this at a local retailer store, but you can try. Retail stores don't usually stock older computer parts becauset they aren't what they think is the hot ticket because it is not brand new.