Sign in with Sign up | Sign in Your question  Phenom II X2 vs.
Athlon II X4  Last response: in CPUs  Well, I'm trying to decide
for an affordable gaming PC only basically, whether to get the
X2 BE or Athlon X4. I understand that the cache is less with the
Athlon, but for gaming wise, I want to know if I can't unlock
the 2 cores with the Phenom II X2, will it still be worth over
getting the Athlon X4. I really don't understand if cache
actually helps with gaming or not. I've also found out a few
Phenom II X2, won't unlock all 4 cores. I'd be getting the
Phenom BE 555/560 or Athlon X4 635/645. I'm also getting a 880G
gigabyte Mobo that says you can unlock hidden cores. I'd be
running games like BO and BC2 basically.  More about : phenom
athlon  Under most gaming type instances, the Ph ii x2 will out
perform the Athlon ii x4. This is a result of better clock rates
and a proper L3 cache, well larger cache in general, and the
fact that most games only really use 2 cores as is, so the extra
2 cores aren't giving mu