Athlon II X3 435 processor review -
CPU-Z Screenshots
CPU-Z Screenshots
It has to be the more boring part of this review, but each time we do not include these screenshots of CPU-Z, we receive emails requesting them. So from now on we'll include them as standard, for your reference. Never say we do not listen ;)
Here we have the processor at default clock frequency. At this stage power management was disabled, otherwise CPU-Z would have shown a clocked down processor at 2000 MHz or something.
CPU-Z is always handy for verifying specifications. Let's see, yep... all proclaimed caches are there and indeed we can verify the L3 cache is gone with the wind.
Even more handy, you can always verify your memory frequency and timings, we'll be running our memory today at 1333 MHz CAS9 (JEDEC).
If interested: you can download CPU-Z here.
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