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Thursday, March 1, 2007
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It was great to see AMD's 690G beat out the NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE and do so at a lower level of power consumption on games like Quake 4, F.E.A.R. and Company of Heroes. When it comes to the performance level of the integrated graphics it's clear that AMD has taken the lead for the time being. The feather in AMD's hat is the native support of HDMI and DVI outputs, which is a big deal for those looking to build a home theater personal computer (HTPC). The AMD 690G is currently the only platform on the market where you can have simultaneous independent digital outputs of DVI and HDMI...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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The AMD 690G chipset is finally launched today and we take a quick look a one of the first few motherboard samples available - the ECS AMD690GM-M2 - to see how the new Radeon X1250 graphics core performs. Check out our first hand experience with the AMD 690G right here.
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AMD's 690 Chipset Series is the first new product since the AMD/ATI merger in October last year. The RS690 is designed to be a low-cost, power efficient Athlon64 chipset which can be used in notebooks and desktop PCs. It features integrated VGA with support for HDMI and DVI - at the same time. With motherboards retailing in the $60 range this chipset has great potential on the budget market.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
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In this opportunity we had the chance to try AMD's lastest CPU, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ which runs at 3000MHz and carries 2x1Mb of cache memory.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
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While the launch of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is nothing ground breaking, it does help AMD bridge the performance gap with Intel and will give Socket AM2 owners something new to drool over. One way to catch up to Intel is to overclock and our overclocking efforts showed that the 90nm Windsor core has a little bit of life left. We were able to reach 3.4Ghz...
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AMD is now fairly competitive with Intel after its recent price cuts, but this last addition to the K8 family doesn't send the ageing architecture out with a bang. That's not to say it's a particularly bad processor, it's just not as good as what the competition has on offer. The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ shines in some areas, but overall it is a slower and more power hungry processor than what Intel is offering for around £30 more than AMD's £300 asking price.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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AMD's native quad-core implementation, codenamed Barcelona, is currently slated for Q2 2007. In the meantime, however, AMD has added in a couple of energy-efficient processors to its line-up and bolstered the top end with the Athlon 64 X2 6000+: the first AM2 processor to run at 3GHz.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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We weren't kidding when we said half a year ago that the FX-64 is on its way; which it did arrive today in the form of the Athlon 64 X 6000+. Clocked at 3GHz with 2MB of full speed L2 cache, can this 6000+ model do wonders? We pit it against Intel's Core 2 Duo series on all grounds - read on!
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AMD has used their older 90nm based Windsor core with an increased voltage of 1.44v for this CPU. It's clocked at 3.0GHz by using a default multiplier of 15x and has 1MB L2 cache per core. The question today is whether this higher clock speed allows AMD CPUs to compete with Intel's current Core 2 lineup. Its funny putting this question forward as we were asking the same thing in our reviews a year ago, however, at that time, it was Intel that was ramping up the clock speeds for their Pentium 4 CPUs to catch up to the Athlon64 CPUs.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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Its based on the older 90nm Windsor Core and is identical to the X2-5000 in terms of raw speed- 2.6GHz. The only difference is that AMD has increased the L2 cache from 512k per core to 1Mb per core.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
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Legit Reviews recently looked at the top AMD QuadFX platform running FX-74 processors and was left wondering what a pair of FX-70 processors could do for less money. We got in the 'budget' QuadFX processors and did what any end user would do once they got them - overclock them to the max. We turned these 2.6GHz processors into 3.1GHz beasts, but was it enough for them to catch up to the Intel QX6700?
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In isolation, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ EE is a decent processor. However, simply put, it's time for a much-needed update to AMD's K8 architecture. We know that it's coming later this year, but in our opinion, it can't happen soon enough. K8 has been great over the years, but AMD just can't get to high enough frequencies to compete with Intel at the moment. If you're looking to build a new system then the choice is quite a clear one; unless you already own a socket AM2 motherboard, Intel's Core 2 Duo processors are a much better choice.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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The one interesting decision that AMD has made is the increase L2 cache latency on Brisbane - the performance deficit between Brisbane and Windsor wasn't massive, but it was distinguishable and fairly consistent over the course of the application benchmarks we've shown here. This leaves me a little perplexed, but the explanation that there's the potential for 65-nanometre Athlon 64 X2's with larger caches if there is a need to move to much larger cache sizes seems a fair one.
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
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By doubling the scores across the board AMD was able to catch up to Intel's latest quad-core processors in a number of benchmarks, but it's clear from our use of both system that Intel still has the lead when it comes to 'quad' platforms. When it comes to pricing AMD has really slashed prices on their FX-70 series processor pricing...
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Monday, September 18, 2006
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Despite my recent Core 2 Duo piece, which proved Intel's latest processor to be considerably better than the AMD equivalent, many people will still be going down the AMD route. With AMD's competitive price cuts and the fact
that most games are not limited by the processor you choose, but rather the graphics card, this isn't an insane choice - but probably not the smartest either.
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