AMD Athlon 2 X3 440 3.0Ghz Socket AM3

By Tom's Hardware on May 27, 2010

There are some people who might get the impression that we're being unfairly hard on the Athlon II X3 440 by pitting it against the Core i7-920. In fact, the opposite is true. We have tremendous confidence in the gaming abilities of AMD's Athlon...

By TechwareLabs on April 28, 2010

The AMD Athlon II 440 x3 has proven to be a very worthwhile processor. It’s not geared to the enthusiast or overclocker, but offers considerable performance for those on a budget. It did very well in the PCMark test, as well as Cinebench. The 440...

By Vortez on March 29, 2010

AMD have impressed me again. The Athlon II X3 440 is an impressive chip. 3 guaranteed cores that can clock over 3.7ghz is very impressive indeed. Yes it's missing an unlocked multiplier like the Black Editions AMD offers but with such a high stock...

By InsideHW on February 04, 2010

Although last fall was in the sign of AMD processors by presentation of a new generation Athlon processors, first X4 and then the triplecores, AMD is not sitting idly by so we got the latest and fastest member of Athlon II X3 family, model...

By Pureoverclock on January 25, 2010

There are a few observations and conclusions we can draw from today's results. The first is that the Intel Core chips tend to chew up the competition in synthetic benchmarks if they are quad-core CPUs. The budget i3 is a dual core with...

By FiringSquad on January 25, 2010

Today’s CPU introductions from AMD don’t really change this: a 100MHz speed bump just isn’t big enough to really boost performance significantly. We do appreciate the fact that AMD’s giving us this 100MHz speed bump for free though, and also bringing...

By Extreme Overclocking on January 25, 2010

These new Phenom II and Athlon II processors are certainly a welcome addition to AMD's product lineup. As AMD continues to price their processors aggressively against their competition, the consumers really come out as the winners, getting more...