What AM3/LGA 1156 processors are similar to the Pentium E5200 performa

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I'm looking for something better, of course. But somewhat similar in performance.

EDIT: The title is supposed to say "What AM3/LGA 1156 processors are similar to the Pentium E5200 performance wise"
The end was cut off.

 

[jj463rd]

Probably the Athlon II X2 240 but the Pentium E5200 can perform better if both are over clocked.At stock speeds the Athlon wins.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Athlon_II_X2_240/10.html
Here is another set of benchies at stock speeds.Notice though that they only had the low power version of the Athlon II X2 240 to compare.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/114?vs=66

 

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Cool. Just wanting to know where my starting point would be and how much of a step up it would be- I'm attempting to put together a list of parts for a budget PC. I was going to either get a Athlon II 255 or a Athlon II 445.

 

[jj463rd]

I had a spare Athlon X2 240 that I used with a $40 motherboard (actually it works well) with some spare DDR 2 memory to revive a old PC (given to me) that died last year (It used socket 939 an Athlon 64 3400+ CPU) and the $40 replacement motherboard was a AM2+ type (Biostar).
I reused the old hard drive with XP Pro on it.I did have to reactivate Windows but it worked (same chipset,IGP and network chip).Right now I am using this very computer to type here.