AMD Athlon II X3 455

"The AMD Athlon II X3 455 type Rana is a Socket AM3 Processor operating at 3300Mhz, has a Front Side Bus speed of 200Mhz and 3x512K L2 Cache. The AMD Athlon II X3 455 supports MMX+, 3DNow+, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, x86-64 and AMD-V."

"It was an interesting result for the AMD Athlon II X3 455 when compared to the AMD Athlon II X4 645. The AMD Athlon II X3 455 is 32% cheaper than the AMD Athlon II X4 645 and we wanted to find out if the AMD Athlon II X4 645 was worth the money. The Power Requirement for the AMD Athlon II X3 455 is 22% less than the AMD Athlon II X4 645 at Idle and 8% at Load so in that respect the AMD Athlon II X3 455 is cheaper to run. For General Use the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 8% faster than the AMD Athlon II X3 455. For Games Use the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is 6% faster than the AMD Athlon II X3 455. The problem for the AMD Athlon II X4 645 is the price which is 32% more than the AMD Athlon II X3 455 which is why the winner of this review is the AMD Athlon II X3 455 which is a bargain. We should also mention that some AMD Athlon II X3 455 Processors can be unlocked into AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processors which will give you a huge speed boost."