Finding the right product to test against the new AMD BE-2350 processor turned out to be a bit of a problem as Intel really has no options at this price level. The lowest cost Core 2 processor will you nearly double what the BE-2350 costs so comparisons between the two would obviously be heavily in Intel’s favor.  However, I still wanted to be able to compare the processor to SOMETHING so I included the numbers from our recent AMD 690G review that used the Athlon X2 5200+ CPU. 

In fact, that was the same platform that the BE-2350 was tested on as well: the AMD 690G motherboards make a great SFF or HTPC option as they are low power motherboards and offer integrated video as well. 

Benchmarks:

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  SiSoft Sandra XI
  
  
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  Windows Media Encoder 9 x64
  
  
• LAME MT
  
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  WinRAR 3.80 beta7
  
  
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  3DMark06 
  
  
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  PCMark05
  
  
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  CineBench 9.5 64-bit

The benchmarks we used here are only a short list of our entire suite of tests – the BE-2350 isn’t going to be breaking any speed records but we did want to at least show the general performance characteristics.