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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. No way. by GISGEOLOGYGEEK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Worst Review Ever!

    No way he got a 20% increase in performace with only a 7% boost in CPU speed when overclocking the chip to 3ghz.

    If he did, why didnt he include the overclock in the benchmarks?

    I bet the whole article is fabricated. Wait for Anandtech for a real review.

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  2. Re:Clockrate differences... by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Troll

    if you are comparing a pentium IV running at 3.8 Ghz to a pentium III runing at 1 Ghz that probably wouldn't hold true.

    Correct. Everyone knows the pentium III would be faster...

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