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AMD Athlon II X3 440
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| Socket | AM3 | ||
| Number of cores | 3 | ||
| Clock rate | 3 GHz | ||
| Cache | 1 MB | ||
| Thermal Design Power | 95 W | ||
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| Technology | 45 nm |
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Régis Jehl
Test date: February 24, 2010
Test date: February 24, 2010
The Athlon II X3 440 is a slightly more powerful version of the X3 435. The difference in clock is 100 MHz (3.0 GHz for the 440 as against 2.9 GHz for the 435). This gives an average increase in speed of 3%.
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Pluses
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Good energy consumption for a tri-core
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Good video encoding performance
Minuses
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Poor gaming performance
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No turbo mode
An economical model for those who aren't especially wanting to do much gaming. It handles office documents excellently and does fine with most applications, using several cores effectively.
