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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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