Good Dual Core Processor for am2 motherboards (AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ / 3 GHz)

Member Name: aled99

Product:	AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ / 3 GHz
Date:	20/09/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Must faster than single core, compatible (with lots of motherboards)

Disadvantages: None at time of lauch, but quite old processor now.

Although this processor is a little old now I still use it in my pc, and it can cope with some modernish games at medium resoultion (also depedent on having a good graphics card). I think it is a good value dual core processor, compatible in several of the motherboards I own. Dual core processors are designed to cope with Multi tasking and the 6000+ is no exception. I find that I can watch tv, surf the internet and encode video all at the same time. It was a good upgrade from my 2ghz single core processor with a noticable increase in speed for any task.
It was easy to install in my motherboard and the supplied fan seems adequate to cool the processor, as it has never gave any overheating problems, even after running continuously for several days doing a demanding task. Although it seems almost perfect for me with an older motherboard the newer amd am3 processors are better (dual core or quad core).

Summary: Good processor, but not for running latest games at full quality.

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