the phenom definetly has a perfomance increase over the athlon, the athlon is more of their budget chip now, for more casual computing, the phenom is the performance chip and would be better for gaming if you want a gaming chip.
Then, Can AMD Phenom 2 run Windows 10?
The processor shouldn’t be an issue, but your motherboard could. If your system runs Windows 8.1, then it should have no problems with Windows 10.
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