Release period
22-Jul-2009

Athlon II X2 240 Review

The Athlon II series is based on the AMD K10 architecture and derived from the Phenom II series. However, unlike its Phenom siblings, it does not contain any L3 Cache. There are two Athlon II dies: the dual-core Regor die with 1 MB L2 Cache per core and the four-core Propus with 512 KB per core. Regor is a native dual-core design with lower TDP and additional L2 to offset the removal of L3 cache. The three core Rana is derived from the Propus quad-core design, with one core disabled.
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Athlon II X2 240 Performance Specification

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CPU Cores

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TDP (Power)

Lithography

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Main Link

CPU Details

2.8 GHz

2 cores

Regor

65W

45nm

Socket AM2+ / AM3

Link

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L2 Cache

L3 Cache

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No the Athlon II X2 240 processor is NOT a laptop and notebook CPU

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hy2rv7

18:59 Apr-06-2013

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Pen4 is fail man lol look the nm man

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Would this bottleneck gtx 650(no ti)?

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can i oc it on stock coler on asus m2n68-am se2and if can what ghz will it have and can somone explane to me step by step how to do it, it jusr sit in corner cuz i sont use it so i want have some fun and learn to oc :)

Zilincan

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There are plenty of overclocking tutorials on internet, firstly read/learn something about it, its not that simple and if you dont know what you do you can damage your hardware

MrPredator003

23:34 Dec-21-2012

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anyway it siting in corner. Ps xou dint help me all what u say i alrady know i need info not "it is hsrd " sory

Zilincan

06:22 Dec-22-2012

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You want from someone to start step by step overclocking with you so why do you aks on gamedebate? :-D
Logic says if i want help with overclocking i start on some overclockers forum
Its not easy thing and i dont know your motherboard bios to start telling you where to put what number, I was not helping I was only warning you from potential risks

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ok but for now i just want info on stock coler can i oc it mbo is sompthing asus m2n... I rride in first post, if i can ic it than i will conect it and go on yt for tutorials, so for now just info please if somone know

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the p4 is better

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@NFSwhiplash -> Different sockets and cache memory? Athlon II X2 should be significantly better.

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How much better is the A II ..X2 vs the A X2?

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Hmm, we are going to need to restructure the Hardware page and tech display layout a little bit.

@Devilek, if we add L2 cache to the performance specification section above, is there anything else you can think of that would be useful that we should add?

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