Bought this processor a few months ago, coming from a Phenom II X4 955, I was expecting to see a big drop in performance going to the Athlon X3 435. But after using it, I have not seem any dramatic decrease in the games that I play.
Right now I'm running it at 3.7GHz, up from the original 2.9GHz, and all my games like Bad Company 2, Mafia 2, Deus Ex, Team Fortress 2 run extremely smooth.
I'm sure that this CPU will bottleneck much more powerful cards, but for the price, this processor cannot be beat.
The Athlon X3 line was always the middle child. Most people were initially skeptical about the chip's performance and hence demand never sky-rocketed. However, as time passed by and people started noticing the numbers the X3 had started raking in, in games and multi-theaded apps alike, it became an instant smash. The X3 435 that i had bought for my dad's computer is clocked at a modest 2.9Ghz with 1.5 MB L2 cache and a TDP count of 95W. I wanted to see how far i could push this baby so i shot for 4.1Ghz @ 1.52v and it was rock solid throughout without so much as even a single BSOD. I had upgraded to this processor from a Core 2 Duo E4500 and my jaw dropped as i saw average frames shoot right up and encoding time shoot right down. The most appealing feature was that the native die-design is based on a quad, meaning that it had a dormant core waiting to be unlocked! Unfortunately, the 4th core was unstable. Never proved to be a real hindrance as that would have been nothing more than just an added bonus. The juiciest part, however, had to be the price! Total value for money. In fact, i loved the chip so much that the following week i went out and bought the X3 445 for my own rig and this time it unlocked into a fully stable quad core with L3 cache. Well done AMD
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I'm using phenomII x4 955 BE,
bought it last week @ rs3800 used.
I've paired it with a msi gtx460 cyclone 1gb oc'd to 900/1800/3600mhz,
It was a killer deal,
upgraded from athlonII x2 240,
huge huge improvement in fps,
atleast 15+ fps bump in every games.
I'm extremely happy.
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