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Hello,
After disappointing performance from my Sempron 140 (almost 100% cpu usage for 1080p material not hardware accelerated by the graphics card) I'm thinking of returning it and getting one of the following:
Athlon II X2 260u
Athlon II X2 235e
Athlon II X2 240e
Athlon II X3 400e
Based on this webpage: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php it seems that the last 3 CPUs are actually very close in performance (I suppose the extra core of the 400e is offset by the lower speed and less L2 cache per core). The first one is not on that list, because is only officially sold as OEM but I can find it right now on a well-known auction site. The advantage is the even less power draw (25w TDP vs 45w). Am I right to think that performance-wise it would be true to the naming convention, i.e. be faster than the 240e? I searched for reviews/benchmarks with no success.
thanks
After disappointing performance from my Sempron 140 (almost 100% cpu usage for 1080p material not hardware accelerated by the graphics card) I'm thinking of returning it and getting one of the following:
Athlon II X2 260u
Athlon II X2 235e
Athlon II X2 240e
Athlon II X3 400e
Based on this webpage: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php it seems that the last 3 CPUs are actually very close in performance (I suppose the extra core of the 400e is offset by the lower speed and less L2 cache per core). The first one is not on that list, because is only officially sold as OEM but I can find it right now on a well-known auction site. The advantage is the even less power draw (25w TDP vs 45w). Am I right to think that performance-wise it would be true to the naming convention, i.e. be faster than the 240e? I searched for reviews/benchmarks with no success.
thanks