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AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Review

Posted by Zonk on from the heavy-hardware dept.

Duane writes "GDHardware.com has the first review of AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 FX-57 CPU clocked at 2.8GHz. They benchmark it against Intel's current fastest 3.8GHz P4 and the Athlon 64 X2." From the article: "Clocked at 2.8GHz, the FX-57 continues the 'San Diego' core AMD released with the FX-55, but is stepped up a paltry 200MHz faster. What's interesting is that while 200MHz on the Intel side of things doesn't always mean that great of a performance gain, not so with AMD."

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  1. 640x480 gaming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    safe to say I won't be visiting GDHardware for reviews again, not that I'd heard of them before.

    "The real target audience for the FX-57 is going to be the ultra-gamer who insists on nothing but the absolute fastest gaming CPU money can buy. It simply crushes everything in its path in game performance and handles most of today's common applications with power to spare."

    Please show me an ultra gamer that plays on cutting edge hardware at only 640x480. I guess it was the only test they could find where the the FX beat the X2

    1. Re:640x480 gaming by neye_eve · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't think so. At 640x480 the vid card can probably handle everything all by itself. You need to put a big load on it so that the work has to run on the cpu since the vid card can't do it all itself.

      i know. I wish more people understood this. I'm having a bit of trouble though with the geforceMX card that I carefully modded to map into the 762 pin socket on my motherboard. The darn thing just don't wanna boot!

      I mean, it has more gigaflops and bogomips than a G4, which we all know is a national security risk! o_0 so i figured it would run my computer super fast when I used it to replace my aging AthlonXP 1800 .

      pls can anyone help me???? kthxbai!

  2. Re:Great. Just Great. by Phoenixhunter · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here.

  3. Re:Anyone else find the graphs confusing? by thrashbluegrass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Growth in confusing graphs on the internet, 1989-2005:

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  4. Dodgy Slashdot stories by rsynnott · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is it that the dodgiest news/review sites so often get written up here?

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