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A second place finish here, which was what we expected to see.

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The AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 trails its 5000+ counterpart by 8 seconds.

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As with all of our tests today, we can see that the AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 performs exactly as it should given its clock speed. Architecture and feature-wise, all three CPUs compared today share the same features, except for the lower TDP in the BE-2350. Based on our results, it's safe to say that faster "BE" chips should scale accordingly as the frequency increases.

System Power Consumption in Watts @ 100% Load

As we've seen at the start, when the PC is idle, all three Athlons are not too far apart. This changes once we started loading the two cores on the processors and things change a great deal here. The numbers below are the total system wattage draw:

System power consumption more or less doubles across the board, but the BE-2350 uses much less than the 5000+ (expected) as well as consuming less than the slightly slower 3600+. The latter two are 65W processors, so these were expected results.

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