What's the AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.90GHz equivalent to? (Intel)

[Sajdood]

Basically, im buying a new pc and it has a AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.90GHz.

Now, I was just wandering, what intel cpu is it equivalent to?

Thanks.

 

[gurusan]

stock for stock probably an e5200

 

[Sajdood]

stock for stock probably an e5200

Okay, thanks.

What would the equivalent of an e8400 be then?

 

[gurusan]

Probably the tricore 720 BE, will do better than the e8400 in multithreaded games. Does not clock as high on average though.

 

[Mul]

Not sure if it helps, but my findings placed the Athlon II X2 250 to be around 13% slower than the Core 2 Duo E8400 overall. I would personally pitch the Athlon II X2 245 as a Pentium Dual Core E6300 2.80GHz chip equivalent.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/cpu_mainboard/amd_athlon_ii_x2_250_processor_review/1

It's a well priced CPU and can overclock fairly well, but for the keen tweaker, I would suggest finding the extra £30 for something like an AMD Phenom II X2 550.