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12-13-2010, 06:41 PM
<p>I have an <strong>AMD AM3 Athlon II x3, w/ 4th core unlocked & stable</strong>. 48701gb, 8gb ddr3, & speedy HD.</p><p>*What this cpu is <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">missing is the L3 cache</span></strong>. Ive heard oh ya ya, that is the problem. But from what I read is the L3 cache mostly helps with multi core Dependant applications such as encoding, extracting, building multimedia projects and few games. I read that I need a cpu such as the athlon II 2 core, which has 2 megs L2 cache! <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">L2 cache is more per core performance.</span></strong> (All Phenom's have like 512kb)</p><p>Ive been considering throwing my L3 cache-less CPU on ebay and grabbing a Phenom x6, but what I read makes sense. L3 cache should only help when the program demands more from the many cores. (For current games, L3 cache-less is fine! Does not help much) From what I have read here, even bigger setups like the top i7's don't have much improvement.</p><p><strong><em>Does any1 have performance results with an Athlon II (no L3) VS Phenom II?</em></strong></p><p><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/2e207fad049d4d292f60607f80f05768.gif" border="0" /><img src="/eq2/images/smilies/0a4d7238daa496a758252d0a2b1a1384.gif" border="0" /></p><p>ps. was a real buzzkill when I upgraded this from a C2D w/4gb ddr2.</p>