X-bit labs managed to get their hands on an AMD X2 3600+ AM2 processor and ran it through the usual tests. The chip features the same clock rate as the 3800+ but it features half of the cache and while…
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Athlon 64
The Tech Report has Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU up against the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ of the energy efficient variety. Things stay close at stock speeds between the two chips but once the usual enthusiast touch is…
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HotHardware has a review of the Systemax Wildcat AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 SLI Gaming PC. The system is jam-packed with all sorts of high-end gear including two Nvidia GeForce 7900GTX graphics cards and an Ageia PhysX board. Impressive amount of…
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TechSpot turns the screws on a defenseless AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (AM2) CPU and pushes it to new extremes. They managed a relatively impressive 50% overclock over its stock settings which isn’t bad for a “budget” processor. A quick peek…
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LostCircuits has a look at a number of BIOS settings you might find in your AMD Athlon 64’s setup screen, now updated with some Socket AM2 entries. A great source of information on the inner workings of those options and…
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HardwareZone has some thoughts on the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor. The chip is the top of the line in the company’s consumer market coming in with dual cores running at 2.6GHz and 1MB of cache for each core. Perhaps…
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Club Overclocker has a review of the Gigabyte G-Power Lite CPU cooler. The heatsink takes a page out of the Thermalright XP-120 playbook with a mass of heatpipes and aluminum fins. A nice cooler with low “quoted” noise output which…
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AnandTech has a look at the AMD Athlin 64 FX-60 processor. The FX chip-line is the top of the heap for their consumer chips, this particular model rolls in with two cores running at 2.6GHz. An impressive CPU which is…
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X-bit labs has more than you ever wanted to know about the Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard. The board features two PCIe 16X slots for full bandwidth SLI-goodness along with a ton of other high-end features. A very pricey AMD Athlon 64…
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AnandTech has done a bit of performance enhancing on AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU. They managed to push the 2GHz dual core CPU to a peppy 2.6GHz which, not surprisingly, also improved application performance. A not so interesting set…
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Frosty Tech has a review of the EKL V8 heatsink/fan cooler. The heatsink can handle most modern Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon 64 CPUs and has a very distinctive design with a huge mass of aluminum getting airflow from…
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