AMD Athlon II 740 is a 3.2GHz Quad core processor with an FM2 based socket. The Athlon processors are budget range as they lack an onboard ATI graphics card. Whereas the A-Series Trinity APUs have a small onboard ATI graphics card inside the CPU.
Its rated at 65W, however I believe this figure maybe lower as its the same power figure given to the APUs with onboard graphics.
Its a good budget CPU to go for if you would rather have an NVidia graphics card in your rig.
Im using it in my new ASUS F2A85-V Pro FM2 motherboard, and its part of my combined NAS / Media Centre PC.
I purchased it from Amazon for £57
Spec:
Frequency: 3.2GHz
Turbo Frequency: 3.7GHz
Number of cores: 4
Number of threads: 4
Socket: FM2
Power: 65 Watts
