AMD Athlon 2 X2 255 3.1GHz Socket AM3

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

1
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros:

Excellent price/performance ratio.
AM3/AM2 compatibility.
Great Overclocker.

Cons:

No notable flaws.
Expensive.

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Last revision on June 5, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Excellent price/performance ratio
AM3/AM2 compatibility
Great Overclocker
DDR3 support
Efficient 45nm process
Virtualization Support
Runs cool
65W TDP
Overclock very well (with higher voltage)
Quad core

Expert reviews and ratings

You’d probably be disappointed with this...

By Atomic MPC on June 29, 2010

AMD is well known for producing a range of good value for money processors which often excel in different areas such as thermal performance and low power draw. Today we are going to look at three...

By HardwareHeaven on April 19, 2010

The Athlon-II X2-255 performed very well against our Intel processors. The goal of this article was to find out how viable the Athlon-II X2-255 is as an upgrade option for budget minded users who want to get more out of their computers. Many users...

By Benchmark Reviews on March 28, 2010

The AMD Phenom II X4 910e is an interesting chip. This processor costs about the same as the faster chip with higher power consumption. The 60 watts of power saved by the Phenom II X4 910e may not seem a lot, it will adds up over the lifespan of the...

By bjorn3d.com on January 26, 2010

Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data...

By Tom's Hardware on December 23, 2012

Another day another great processor from AMD.The 255 is certainly an affordable and easy to clock processor. A 900MHz overclock was certainly not what I'd expected and was a very positive surprise.As you'd expect from a cache limited dual core...

By Vortez on November 14, 2010

For a budget chip, the 255 and 260 perform well. The cutting of the L3 cache is disappointing, but understandable as a means of cutting production costs. The price difference between them is only about $10 and that still puts both of them cheaper...

By TechwareLabs on June 28, 2010

This low-end CPU isn't that much slower than the Phenom II X6 1090T, except with multithreaded apps, where it's game over....

By Techworld on June 22, 2010

Outperforming the competition in lightly threaded apps proves the AMD Athlon II X2 255 will be a solid choice if you're likely going to run mainly lightly threaded programs....

By Legit Reviews on February 12, 2010

Today’s CPU introductions from AMD don’t really change this: a 100MHz speed bump just isn’t big enough to really boost performance significantly. We do appreciate the fact that AMD’s giving us this 100MHz speed bump for free though, and also bringing...

By FiringSquad on January 25, 2010

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