The AMD Phenom II X2 series are among the cheapest 45nm processors on the market, in addition, they have proved themselves among overclockers. A new manufacturing process provides many opportunities to disperse and, according to the source, based on the same core AMD plans to release a new flagship product, Athlon II X2 255. This processor will operate at a frequency 3.1GGts with 200MHz bus speed and 2MB cache L2. The new processor will be 100MHz faster than the current flagship Athlon II X2 250, but its power consumption will be 65W.

When issuing processor Athlon II X2 255 AMD is going to slightly reduce the prices of its predecessors, the earlier model series Athlon II X2, but the manufacturer has not reported any new items price or size of the alleged decline. Despite the fact that the new processor has not yet been formally introduced, he has already been included by some manufacturers in the list of processors supported motherboards.