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Thursday, September 1, 2005
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If you want the best processor on the market there is little doubt that it is going to be based on the AMD Athlon64 architecture. If you are a true gaming enthusiast you're best off going with an Athlon64/FX processor, those of you who need a multimedia powerhouse should stick to the dual core AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+. For the answers to "why" that is, keep on reading...
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Sunday, August 7, 2005
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Overall, the performance of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is outstanding and what you're really getting is a 'dualie' packed into a single silicon die. AMD's Direct Connect Architecture is well implemented in the Athlon 64 X2 processor, giving it surprisingly good scalability. Users would normally expect dual core processors to give them two times the performance, and with the Athlon 64 X2, users are actually getting performance that's nearly double. Of course, applications must first be threaded in order to take advantage of the dual-core architecture and its scalability is also quite dependent on the nature of the software...
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Monday, May 9, 2005
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The key things to take from today's look at the 4800+ is that it's generally no slower, but generally no faster either, than an FX-53 in single-threaded tests, yet it'll cost you a fair bit more. I hope it's obvious that a dual-core processors benefits lie elsewhere, with multi-threaded applications and real-world operating system usage. Think HyperThreading.
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There's no doubt that the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is very impressive indeed. Combined with the nForce4 SLI chipset it has performance that is truly staggering, and the only possible source of disappointment is the price. That and the fact that we don't expect speed increases to come along thick and fast. We'd guess that 2.6GHz at the start of 2006 and 2.8GHz at the end of 2006 with a 3GHz version in 2007 is close to the mark. We're about to be hit by a wave of new technologies as 64-bit computing and virtualisation come to the desktop, and we can't wait to see what benefits they bring, but right now Athlon 64 X2 is at the top of our IT shopping list.
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