AMD Launches Athlon 64 FX-57

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 27, 2005 @01:31AM from the tide-goes-in-tide-goes-out dept.

Kez writes "Today AMD release what could be the fastest x86 processor to date. The FX-57 is the first 90nm Athlon 64 FX from AMD, clocked to 2.8GHz, with 1MiB of L2 cache and support for SSE3. The memory controller has also been tweaked to support mismatched memory module sizes - something some enthusiasts have been crying out for. Hexus.net reviews the new processor, which, in gaming benchmarks, walks all over any of Intel's offerings." There's going to be plenty of reviews I'm sure - if you've found other links, please post them below.

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Remember when Apple/IBM did this...last year? by CptTripps · 2005-06-27 01:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

REmember when Apple showed everyone a G5....the reaction was "That sucks...it's only 2ghz!"

Now we have people saying "This is going to be great!" ...but NOW we have Apple going to Intel, and presumably a dual-core CPU. I'm imagining that it'll be the better play.

But what do I know...I still can't type faster than a 486.

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