At their stock clocks, the Athlon II's clock advantage has the upper hand, but both are mostly still faster than the other AMD CPUs that have gone before, even when overclocked.

AMD Athlon X2 7750 (provided by AMD) AMD Athlon X2 7850 (provided by AMD) AMD Athlon II X2 250 (provided by AMD) Since we are still not fans of Vista, all tests are performed with XP SP3.

The Phenom II X4 905e is a low-power 65w quad-core, and the brand new Athlon II X2 250 is AMD's latest high-performance, budget-class dual-core processor. All of these processors share some ...

DDR3 support and smaller manufacturing process of the Athlon II X2 250 yield greater or comparable overclockability to the E5200, and what is their respective performance for the pound? Has AMD ...

Spider entailed the AMD 780 chipset, Radeon series 3000/4000 ... We will also test another processor release today, the Athlon II X2 250. Now there is a good reason for the change in utilizing ...

The Phenom II X2 sounds really good on paper, being the same processor as the Phenom II X4 955 with just two cores at less than half the price. Prior to the release of the Phenom II X2 550 ...

The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variant by utilizing the appropriate x86 or SSE2 ...

Finally, it's worth noting that unlike many dual-core AMD processors, the Athlon II X2 250 does not have any hidden cores to unlock. It's a pure dual-core chip, not a quad-core model with two ...

Is £50 enough to buy adequate PC processor performance? One way to find out is to take a punt on the AMD Athlon II X2 250. On paper, it looks promising enough thanks to specifications that would ...

The Athlon II X2 250 on the other hand was quite a bit slower ... make good use of multi-core processing and for that reason the AMD processors will rank according to clock speed.