New CPU sockets and platform shifts are a necessary evil. On the one hand, depending on the type of PC user you are and how often you upgrade, it's what facilitates a larger-than-normal expenditure as ...

For our next round of synthetic benchmarks, we ran the CPU and Memory performance modules built into Futuremark's PCMark05. "The CPU test suite is a collection of tests that are run to isolate the ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. AMD recently announced a new revision of the Athlon 64 processor core. This new revision codenamed ...

ha ha that is too funny. they need to shift their athlon line to dual cores only and shift the sempron to 512kb l2 cache. The way they have prices laid out for am2, i do not see sempron selling ...

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Tech Report has a story about AMD's plans for some of its older Athlon CPUs. Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 4400+, and 4000+ for Socket AM2 and model 4400+ for Socket 939 chips will be retired soon, as will ...

Crecente from Kotaku finally got around to ordering the parts for his upcoming gaming PC, when he got his CPU order cancelled. This threw him into a fit of rage, where he discarded his usual ...

Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all). Hot Hardware have a review and it's performance is ...

An FEA is primarilly limited by memory bandwidth, and secondarily limited by compute performance. The Athlon has the lowest of both, and should be ignored unless budget demands it's use.<BR><BR>The ...

Ask AMD why launch Socket AM2 -- the hub of a platform shift that sees them standardise on a socket for their CPUs across their entire desktop product line -- now, and they'll largely lay it at the ...

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