Thread: What to Choose AMD Phenom II X3 720 or AMD Athlon II X4 630?

If overclocking is received beyond the equation gaming presentation will count on the game, elder games and recent games will frequently favor the X3 (with the omission of GTA/Crysis/Facry 2) however arriving games will favor the X4. Commonly usage the X4 will be enhancing in most tasks.

A Phenom II X4 965 next to Athlon II X4 620 with same frequency (2.6GHz) Big difference? Maybe not. But a 630 can't beat a 720 BE in OC and memorize that the 630 don't have L3 cache, a good choice for games akin to GTA IV and GRID.

Lots of links were sent in your way, if you read the links you would recognize the dissimilarity with and without L3. We can’t provide you directly.

A link was propelled your direction with an Athlon II 620 (no L3) against a Phenom II 965 (with L3) both clocked @ 2.6 GHz. That link alone clarifies the L3 factor.

Hi friends, I receive your replies. So thanks for that. 5.7% on GTA IV not many of a disparity to me. What about GRID?

Not too certain, Grid aren’t utilized much for benchmarks so I doubt you'll discover it. But the Athlon II and Phenom II CPUs are authoritative sufficient to run Grid well. I utilized to play grid with a normal of 75 FPS with my old ATI 4830 and Athlon X2 3800+ @ 2.8 GHz.

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