This is a discussion on Difference between AMD X2 & X3 on an AM2 based motherboard? - Hardware ; I have a question... My system uses an AM2 socket on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (rev. 1.0) motherboard. It presently houses an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ dual core CPU (2x 3GHz cores). I learned that this AM2 motherboard also supports the ...
I have a question... My system uses an AM2 socket on a Gigabyte
GA-M59SLI-S5 (rev. 1.0) motherboard. It presently houses an Athlon 64
X2 6000+ dual core CPU (2x 3GHz cores). I learned that this AM2
motherboard also supports the X3 8x00 series tri-core processors @ 2.3
GHz per core.
Assumption --> Using an AM2 socket and not an AM2+ socket.
Question --> Am I right to assume that my dual-core 6000+ CPU running
each core at 3 GHz will have a higher performance than a tri-core
running @ 2.3 GHz per core when installed in this AM2 socket?
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