i did say spend 5$ more and go for Athlon II X4 631 for 85$ overclock it to decent 3.5Ghz to 3.6Ghz with a decent cooler like Hyper TX3 and enjoy better performance the the Phenom II X2 555BE. the unlocking days of Phenom II X2 are gone i guess there would be hardly any left
Phenom II. Mine currently plays everything awesome: War hammer: space marine, Dawn of war, dead space, all the tomb raiders.
You can Oc it well and it could unlock to a quad.
The Athlon just doesn't have the 'turbo' in game play like the phenom and my Athlon didn't unlock.
The Athlon II X3 is great and super fast for every day stuff, but for game play, it won't beat a phenom II X2.
Even AMD promoted this.
This is going to be for a 12 year old interested in computers and PC gaming (light gaming ex: Cod4) He probably wont need to overclock it. I just want to have him kind of future proof a little so as he ages he does not need to upgrade his whole system
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