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Few weeks ago after AMD releases fastest X4 955 Black Edition to hold hegemony Intel Core 2 Quad series lineup. At MSRP $245 right now, i think Intel doesn’t have a right answer for their competitor at these price point. Or for budget user can choosing another X3-720 Black Edition for $140.

Yet today AMD has landed another secret weapon from Phenom II 45nm series for direct competition for Intel budget dualcore processor. This flagship processor have price only $100, we are pretty excited to show you what it can do. The Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition comes clocked at an impressive 3.10GHz, and still features the huge 6MB L3 cache.

here is a simple reason for why AMD are able to do this, and in fact why they do it in the first place. Like the triple-core Phenom II X3, many of the new Phenom II X2’s will be defective Phenom II X4 processors. Basically, if there is a problem with one of the four cores on a Phenom II X4 processor that cause it to fail quality control, AMD cannot sell it.

Ultimately what this means is that consumers can get their hands of Phenom II technology for less than half the price with the Phenom II X2 550. Keeping all this in mind, not all Phenom II X2 processors will feature one of two defective cores, AMD may simply disable the other two just so that they can meet the demand, and given what we are about to show you, we believe that demand will be very high…

Intel Test System Specs

AMD Test System Specs

Software

And here a gaming and overlock performance. X2-550 doing well with 3.9ghz stable for benchmark session test.

Conclusion :

For the most part the Phenom II X2 550 proved to be faster than the Core 2 Duo E7400, which costs 20% more at $120 US. Although the Phenom II X2 550 did show one or two weaknesses, it was the gaming performance that impressed us the most. Not only was this new AMD processor faster than the E7400 in all three tested games, it was also comparable to the Phenom II X4 910.

This is exciting news as the Phenom II X2 550 at $100 US could be paired with the Radeon HD 4770, which also costs $100 US, making for what could possibly be the cheapest and most powerful gaming platform ever. The ATI Radeon HD 4770 blew us away with its phenomenal performance, particularly when placed in Crossfire mode.

The Phenom II X2 550 clocked at 3.10GHz has enough horse power to accelerate not one but two Radeon HD 4770 graphics cards to full speed if need be. Imagine being able to play a game such as Call of Duty World at War for example, in all its glory at resolutions up to 2560×1600 on a system that costs less than $500 US.

original review by Steve Walton @Legionhardware.com

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