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AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested

Posted by Zonk on from the kicking-the-tires-lighting-the-fires dept.

Spinnerbait writes "AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line, in the form of a new 3GHz part branded the Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts. Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."

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  1. But hey... by Goaway · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least it uses more power!

    1. Re:But hey... by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

      So they're about 2 years behind Intel on this? Prescott topped out around 135W IIRC, so AMD has 10W more to go...

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    2. Re:But hey... by moranar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, with cool n' quiet we'll be able to run it at half of its power and clock speed. Like an Athlon 3000, for example, only more expensive.

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  2. Speed Bump? by blcamp · · Score: 4, Funny

    AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line "Speed bump"? You mean it's supposed to keep my computer slow(er)?

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    1. Re:Speed Bump? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Speed bump"? You mean it's supposed to keep my computer slow(er)?

      Is that what those are for? I thought it was so that you knew you were going fast enough when you caught air off the bump. If you're going too slow, it's not a bump, right?

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  3. Re:DOS by Tanktalus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd hate to be part of that QA department...

  4. Re:DOS by misleb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude! Totally! And then you can run Wordperfect 5 at blazing speeds!

    There's retro... there's wicked... and then there's DOS.

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  5. Re:DOS by Deadguy2322 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow. You have the biggest e-weiner. And the smallest social life, I'd bet.

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