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Best Bench: 65% Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 43% Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 0.45 GHz (avg)

Poor: 43% Great: 65%

SPEED RANK: 704^th / 1468

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Best Bench: 60% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 36% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 2.1 GHz (avg)

Poor: 36% Great: 60%

SPEED RANK: 770^th / 1468

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		55.1 %	Slightly faster effective speed. +7%		51.6 %


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	77 Pts		77.2 Pts	+0%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	78.6 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +37%	57.2 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	136 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +33%	102 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	193 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +26%	153 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	201 Pts	Faster octa-core speed. +25%	161 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	92.3 Pts	+4%	89.1 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	90.5 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +30%	69.5 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	165 Pts	Faster OC dual-core speed. +30%	127 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	234 Pts	Faster OC quad-core speed. +17%	200 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	234 Pts	Faster OC octa-core speed. +17%	200 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)		0.04 %	Hugely higher market share. +300%		0.01 %
User Rating UBM User Rating		54 %			54 %


Age Newest	130+ Months	More recent. +10%	145 Months
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	234 Pts	Faster OC 64-core speed. +17%	200 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	202 Pts	Faster 64-core speed. +25%	162 Pts

The AMD FX-4300 is a budget quad-core processor which unlike its predecessor, the Bulldozer FX-4100, is based on the Piledriver micro-architecture which was released in Q4 of 2012. Its base clock speed of 3.8 GHz boosts to 4.0 GHz in turbo mode and with appropriate cooling can be overclocked to speeds of over 4.5 GHz. Even though these numbers are impressive, the real world effective speed is only 66. This is ok for general computing and even gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. The user experience will, however, be noticeably snappier with a CPU that has better single-core performance. Whilst the FX-4300 is cheap, it’s not so differently priced from the hexa core FX-6300 which offers significantly improved multi-core performance. ^{[Nov '14 CPUPro]}

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