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Prepare yourself for a new personal computing experience with the Athlon II X4 620. Save time and accomplish more with multi-core processing that makes multitasking quick and simple. The Athlon II X4 features the next-generation AMD Direct Connect Architecture for a fast, responsive PC. This processor is also optimized to take advantage of the power management features in Windows 7 using AMD PowerNow! 3.0 Technology.
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Energy efficiency is important to AMD, allowing you to enjoy a cool, quiet PC while saving energy and reducing heat, noise and the effect of your computer on the environment. Energy efficiency innovations include Cool’n’Quiet, AMD CoolCore and AMD Smart fetch. These technologies reduce power consumption and processor activity. You’ll experience up to 50% energy efficiency over previous AMD Athlon II processors.
AMD Athlon II processors also offer support for Virtualization Technology. You can run virtual environments on one system with ease, allowing you to use legacy programs on a separate operating system. Also providing 64-bit support, this processor can handle the most demanding programs with ease. Add the convenience and power of multi-core processing and enjoy the benefits of energy efficiency with an AMD Athlon II X4 620 today!
Incredible! 9/30/2009
By Josh
Pros: Overclocks very well on stock HSF. Have mine at 3.25GHz on stock air and voltage. Most reviews say this is the sweet spot for this chip; much higher and you'll have to throw voltage at it in unacceptable amounts. Oh, and it's running temps of about 38-42C idle (I never really stay still long enough to properly check :).
Runs video editing/encoding applications as fast or faster than Phenom II X4 series. Costs well under half what a similar chip would have cost just 45 days ago.
Cons: There's really no con here. If you want an elite gaming chip, perhaps look elsewhere. So maybe the con is that at one tenth the price of a bleeding edge Intel chip, this little guy only gives you 45-60% of the same performance... Hey, wait a second!
Other Thoughts: Seriously, if you NEED four cores for video encoding, the price/performance ratio of this chip blows EVERYTHING on the market out of the water.
We had the GHz war. We're still counting casualties from the Core war. Enter the Price/Performance war... and not a moment too soon!
To the wall 3/30/2010
By Dave
Pros: Well... It is stable at 3,459MHz @ stock voltage. I haven't tried higher but, I probably will ;) (I just played around for a short while.. turned down mem clock, turned down northbridge multiplier... bumped up FSB. Then adjusted mem/NB Mult to desired levels)
At stock clock and voltage it runs cooler than any CPU I have EVER owned. People complain about the HSF - it hardly needs one.
Cons: The lack of L3 cache is an ever-so-slight con, though not a major one.
Other Thoughts: Using Passmark Performance Test I get 40% higher CPU output using a 64bit OS for Integer/FPU/SSE. Compression and Physics are about the same.
At 3.45GHz I get 4,450 in the Passmark CPU test. That's some serious stuff. A Phenom II 965 gets 4,300 running at 3.4GHz. I supposed that is simply because those numbers are based on averages, whereas my score is not an average.
Overall I expected performance around 3,000 on PTest and it overclocks to 50% more than that. For a hundred dollar CPU these number really go to show us what we have to look forward to in the next few years of computing technology!
If you are a gamer - I will admit that ou may want a Phenom II, unless you want to invest the difference in price into a GPU. If you are a power user on a budget, this is a great chip - and for the price Intel can't come close!
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