But even if we focus only on performance numbers and disregard everything else, the final verdict will hardly change. Athlon X2 7000 series processors yield quite a lot to competitors in many applications, and there are very few tasks where they are better than Pentium E5000. Therefore, there is only one way the today’s dual-core AMD solutions may be of interest to you: if you are looking to upgrade your old Socket AM2 platform. It seems totally unreasonable to assemble a new computer system based on Athlon X2, even if it is a new one of K10 (Stars) microarchitecture.

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