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Anand Reviews Athlon 64 FX-53

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mips-and-chips dept.

trickofperspective writes "Anandtech has a review of AMD's latest processor, the Athlon 64 FX-53. Long story short -- the FX-53 is a "very solid processor," but you'd be better off waiting a couple months for Socket 939."

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  1. Re:the FX-53 is a "very solid processor" by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The newest Intel chips run hotter than the newest AMD chips. Time to update your jokes."

    Okay. Hey! My Athlon self destructed because it doesn't clock itself down when it overheats!

    Hmm well I need to refine that joke a bit.

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  2. Re:Explaining the difference... by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 0, Troll
    some people are also scared of amd being cheap. my brother was convinced that there were some things his amd 600 wasnt compatible with just because it was an amd. i tried to convice him otherwise and, well, he now owns a 3.whatever dell with hyperthreading.

    Your brother is smart. It's wise to avoid AMD unless you don't care about compatibility. For example, an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU in an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard with an Nforce2 chipset is absolutely horrible under Linux. I have to practically cripple the thing by shutting off APIC before I can even get it running for longer than a few minutes without hard locking up. Personally I feel this is a problem with Linux since I have the same board running Windows XP and it works flawlessly, but suffice it to say, there is definitely an incompability somewhere. If I had gotten a P4 system instead I'm assured it would've been working 100%.