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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. Re:DOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HAHA, you are CRAZY like a FOX!!

  2. On a similar note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want to see what happens when you add two really big numbers (my hypothesis is that addition breaks down when you get into numbers bigger then about a trillion, in such a way that the result of adding two numbers tends towards the result of multiplication) Will an AMD processor allow me to do this?

    1. Re:On a similar note... by binner1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      But I use Ruby you insensitive clod!

      irb(main):001:0> 1000000000000000+1000000000000000
      => 2000000000000000

      Guess I should get that cup of coffee now, eh?
      -Ben

  3. in other news... by Khyber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz"

    No shit, Sherlock. Core Duo is 32-bit and can only run 32-bit XP or Vista. When you limit a 64-bit processor to a 32-bit OS, of course you're most likely gonna get your ass nailed to the wall.

    --
    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.