AMD Athlon II X2 250 [Review]

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AMD Athlon II X2 250 [Review]

Roydon Cerejo, Jul 03, 2009 1459 hrs IST

AMD's latest budget processor gives you bang for buck

Good performance, low power consumption, AM3 support, competitively priced

Average overclocker

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Testbench

A close up shot of the Athlon II X2 250

For testing the Athlon II X2 250, we used the Asus M4A79 Deluxe motherboard that is based on the 790FX chipset and offers some nifty overclocking options. More importantly, it's a rock solid board that we've used for testing the other processors in the past as well.

CPU: Athlon II X2 250
Motherboard: Asus M4A79 Deluxe
RAM: 2x 1GB G.Skill 1066MHz DDR2 memory
GPU: Nvidia 9600GT
HDD: WD Raptor 300GB
PSU: CoolerMaster 1000W

Super PI v1.1

Super PI is a computer program that calculates the value of pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point. It uses Gauss-Legendre algorithm and is based purely on number crunching, which is a true test for a CPU's raw power. It's also a very useful tool to test the stability of a system when overclocking. For our test, we set the limit to four million digits for all the CPU tests. Remember that Super PI is not multithreaded, so it will solely depend on the CPU speed and the architecture. Lower scores are better.