AMD Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition AM3 Processor Review
Andy Ruffell / 14 years ago
Final Thoughts
The Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition is a great value for money processor, especially when you consider that you might be lucky enough to get a bonus core or two by unlocking them and even overclocking the unlocked cores resulted in some very impressive results in our testing for a processor at this price point.
Being a Phenom II Black edition processor it features not only 6MB of L3 cache but also an unlocked multiplier which affects all cores, if they are unlocked or the standard cores, which together with some tweaking allowed us to get an impressive overclock both as a standard processor and as a tri core.
In our testing the Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition scored very closely with the cheaper Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition which this processor replaces, I feel that its hard to justify the extra cost of the Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition over the Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition considering the performance difference is so small. It did however allow us to get a higher overclock compared with the Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition.
Pros:
- Inexpensive
- L3 cache
- Good overclocking potential
- Cheaper alternative to Intel
- Potential to unlock an extra core or two
Cons:
- Superseded by Phenom II X2 565 Black Edition
- Performance very similar to cheaper Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition
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