Cinebench R10:
MAXON CINEBENCH runs several tests on computers to measure the performance of the processor and graphics card under real-world circumstances and makes use of up to 16 cpu’s or cpu cores. Cinebench’s test process is in two-phases: The first test procedure is directed against the cpu using a 3D render scene and photo realistic image settings shown above to test how fast the cpu can produce the fully rendered scene. During the 1st pass of the test, the benchmark will only use one cpu, or in a multi-core/cpu system it will use only a single cpu core to render the photo realistic scene to get a base value against which it will then perform the 2nd phase of the test using all of the cpu cores available. Higher Frames/Second and lower rendering time in seconds equals better performance.
The CPU single test came out to 3108, however the multi came out to a score of 8133. Not too shabby.
Is this processor good for gaming. I mean playing latest games combined with a 9600GT 1GB. Can I play Battlefield Bad Company 2 on it?
yes you can, I play the game at good fps using this cpu. You need a good video card to play this game smoothly. Something like an ATI 4850 will be great.
How is it you say in the introductory paragraph “The Athlon II X3 435 has 1.5MBs of L2 Cache per core…” and then in the Specifications, “512KB of L2 data cache per core (1.5MB total L2 per processor)?” Isn’t that introductory paragraph a bit optimistic?