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AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition vs. Athlon II X2 250 review

The ghost of the awesome Athlon 64 budget gaming chips returns

Our Score

Last reviewed: July 4th

Price at launch £80.00
Cache Type 256KB L1 cache, 1MB L2 cache, 6MB L3 cache
Thermal Design Power 80
Features Socket AM3, HyperTransport 3.0 technology
Manufacturing Process 45nm
64 Bit Computing Yes
Core Voltage 1.425
No of Cores 2
Clock Speed 3.1

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Phenom II X2 550

AMD Athlon II X2 250 Phenom II X2 550 BE

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£73.72

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Product Summary

Key specs


No of Cores: 2 |
Clock Speed: 3.1 |

Full spec

For

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Phenom Cheap as

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Great overclocker

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Same tech specs as top AMD quads

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Athlon Low wattage

Against

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Phenom Limited multi-threading capability

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Athlon Low performance

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Too close in price to the superior chips

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Little under the hood

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