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AMD Athlon FX-60 processor.
The recent launch of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 represents the end of the line as such for the socket-939 processors with no further speed increases to come. Now all processors will be moving over to the new AMD socket-M2 for Athlon 64, Athlon 64 x2 and the FX-60. The AM2 or socket-M2 platform comes with DDR2 memory support which is great and is due for release very soon in a few months.It is worth bearing in mind before you rush out and buy a dual core processor that single core processors are quicker at single core threaded applications than dual-core processors are.This latest AMD FX-60 is basically just a slightly faster version running at 2.6GHz or rather an unlocked Athlon 64 x2 made using 90nm technology. It is made of 233 million transistors compared to the Intel Pentium EE 955 with 376 million transistors but AMD is still the more powerful and faster processor in tests.
Unless you have a bottomless wallet we cannot recommend and do not recommend buying either an AMD FX or indeed even worse an Intel EE processor as to us they do not represent value-for-money in the computer world where new faster products are coming on the market every day. As this AMD FX-60 is only a nats faster than the earlier FX-57 the cost is just not worth it.
The recent launch of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 represents the end of the line as such for the socket-939 processors with no further speed increases to come. Now all processors will be moving over to the new AMD socket-M2 for Athlon 64, Athlon 64 x2 and the FX-60. The AM2 or socket-M2 platform comes with DDR2 memory support which is great and is due for release very soon in a few months.It is worth bearing in mind before you rush out and buy a dual core processor that single core processors are quicker at single core threaded applications than dual-core processors are.This latest AMD FX-60 is basically just a slightly faster version running at 2.6GHz or rather an unlocked Athlon 64 x2 made using 90nm technology. It is made of 233 million transistors compared to the Intel Pentium EE 955 with 376 million transistors but AMD is still the more powerful and faster processor in tests.
Unless you have a bottomless wallet we cannot recommend and do not recommend buying either an AMD FX or indeed even worse an Intel EE processor as to us they do not represent value-for-money in the computer world where new faster products are coming on the market every day. As this AMD FX-60 is only a nats faster than the earlier FX-57 the cost is just not worth it.
Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 2.93GHz Dual-Core Socket 775 Processor (1066MHz 4MB Cache) - BX80557X6800
The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor delivers revolutionary dual-core performance for those who want the most intense, high-performance computing experience available.
Designed for gamers and power users, the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor provides exceptional performance for ultra-realistic games and advanced digital media creation applications.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor utilizes the Intel® 975X Express Chipset based platform supporting dual graphics as well as the Intel® P965 Express Chipset based platform with an optimized memory engine for improved system performance.
These combinations of processor and chipset offer an array of exciting capabilities and deliver an unparalleled level of performance leadership.
AMD Sempron 64 x2 dual-core or Athlon 64 x2 dual-core 3800+ processor
AMD have just launched a new cheaper or low-cost Athlon 64 x2 dual-core processor or Sempron 64 dual-core, 3800+. Take your pick.Taking a quick look at our handy table you can see that AMD have simply reduced the L2 memory size by half to 512KB x 2 from 1MB x2 to achieve this new Athlon 64 dual-core processor. This dramatically reduces the transistor count and consequently the size of the die which makes it cheaper to produce each processor as there are now more per wafer.
While we can appreciate AMD doing this for low-cost countries to compete with Intel in the very competitive market for low-cost processors to us buying one does not make sense since you would be better off buying an normal Athlon x2 dual-core with full size L2 cache but running at a slower clock speed or even buying a single-core Athlon 64 for the same price. Why buy something that might only be a touch cheaper but gives a lot less performance. It is a false economy to our way of thinking.
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