Review on AMD Athlon II X3 400E Energy Efficient Rana 2.2 GHz 3x512 KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 45W Triple-Core Processor for Retail - AD400EHDGIBOX by Radko Vasilev Iordan ᠌

It is not clear with the level 3 cache: CPU_Z does not see it, but the heat dissipation during unlocking increases to the Phenom level. The performance is also close to Phenom's. Different pros: The price is more than adequate. Intel has only stripped down and renamed Core2Duo for this money. Performance even in the 3-core version is quite sufficient. The probability of unlocking the 4th core is very high. In the 4-core, min overclocking is available by 16%. Different cons: Still, 45nm is no longer ice. Heat dissipation is decent, a cooler with heat pipes is highly desirable.