Whetstone:
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The Whetstone benchmark reported a pretty good score for a Triple core of 3205128 which is just behind the over clocked AMD Phenom II X2 560 at 4.13GHz.
ScienceMark:
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The Athlon II X3 450 posted a nice score of 2093.92 which is much higher than the more expensive AMD Phenom II X2 560 BE and for a price tag roughly $80 cheaper than the Phenom 560 and Atlon II X3 450 is looking to be a great value processor.
Cinebench R10:
Cinebench is a program that tests the CPU by rendering out a 3D Scene and measuring how long it takes to complete the task.
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The resulting score is a respectable one for the Athlon II X3 450. With some overclocking to tweak the processor to your rig setup and which game your playing, the scores will very. Also doing simple upgrades like replacing a video card will make a big difference in your resulting score.
Cinebench R11.5
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The result of the Cinebench 11.5 of 2.56 is much better than the AMD Athlon II 255 and 260 review at 1.69.
I’ve been reading alot of articles on the Athlon II 450 X3 Rana 45nm Technology which I have in my computer. Most of them say you can unlock the 4th core and get advantages of more speed. I am running 8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz, with a BIOSTAR Group N68S3+ (CPU 1) motherboard and 256MB GeForce 8400 GS (XFX Pine Group) video card and Creative xfi sound card. Do you think its a good idea to re-set my CPU configeration to “auto” and unlock the forth core?
I would appreciate your advise, I’m leary of others I have read.
There is a lot of talk about this and from what I know, it is not as simple as a BIOS change. In the manufacturing process AMD has disabled a core on the die of the processor itself. There is talk (if you permit the expression of “around the water cooler)” that some people have used a single strand of wire to connect the core or that they used a pencil eraser to enable this physical disconnection. Honestly, until I see this first hand, I won’t believe it till I see it myself. I would chalk this talk of changing a BIOS or using a wire to jumper the core as none sense. The physical disconnect of a single core on the processor die is a fraction of a nanometer. No one with a home soldering kit would not be able to reconnect this disabled core or use a BIOS change to enable it.
Hi,
Your motherboard does not support core unlocking.
This one is cheap and does support core unlocking http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-M5A78L-M-Motherboard-Socket-Unlocker/dp/B004ZOH1I6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pdT1_S_nC?ie=UTF8&coliid=I7CHDHJ2OAHEA&colid=269MO0OHK392Y
Hi there, my name is Kristeen Depriest and I have to point out that AMD Athlon II X3 450 Reviewed | TechwareLabs is really a remarkable piece of writing.
i unlocked the 4th core and got a windows 7 score of 7.3 from previous 6.9 with 3 cores.