The AMD Athlon X2 6500 BE was a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in September 2008. It is part of the Athlon X2 lineup, using the Kuma architecture with Socket AM2+. Athlon X2 6500 BE has 2 MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.3 GHz. AMD is building the Athlon X2 6500 BE on a 65 nm production process using 450 million transistors. You may freely adjust the unlocked multiplier on Athlon X2 6500 BE, which simplifies overclocking greatly, as you can easily dial in any overclocking frequency.
With a TDP of 95 W, the Athlon X2 6500 BE consumes a good deal of power, so decent cooling is needed. For communication with other components in the system, Athlon X2 6500 BE uses a PCI-Express Gen 2 connection. Although the processor doesn't come with integrated graphics, certain motherboards with compatible chipsets can provide this capability.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Athlon X2 6500 BE, which greatly improves virtual machine performance.