AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: A Dual-Core farewell to Socket-939
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 9, 2006 11:59 PM EST- Posted in
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The Test
| CPU: | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4GHz/1MBx2) AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0GHz/512KBx2) AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8GHz/1MB) AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 (2.6GHz/1MBx2) Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 (3.46GHz/2MBx2) Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (3.2GHz/1MBx2) Intel Pentium D 820 (2.8GHz/1MBx2) |
| Motherboard: | ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Intel BadAxe 975X |
| Motherboard BIOS: | ASUS: Version 1013 Dated 08/10/2005 |
| Chipset: | NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel 975X |
| Chipset Drivers: | nForce4 6.70 Intel 7.0.0.1020 |
| Memory: | OCZ PC3500 DDR 2-2-2-7 DDR2-667 5-5-5-15 |
| Video Card: | ATI Radeon X1800 XT |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 5.13 |
| Desktop Resolution: | 1280 x 1024 - 32-bit @ 60Hz |
| OS: | Windows XP Professional SP2 |
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latrosicarius - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
Would have been funny too :-PFuren - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
The key word is "faster"... AMD will continue producing socket 939 CPUs for a while yet, we just wont get any speed bumps, kind of like they did with socket 754. I thought we'd get an extra X2 on socket 939 though...Furen - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
Is the FX-55 being retired? Or is it just getting a price drop?Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
Retired, only the FX-57 and 60 will remain on the market.Take care,
Anand
Rand - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
I wish the gaming tests had been done at 640x480 so as to attempt to minimize the graphics cards influence on the results.Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
Normally I'm not in favor of running things at that low of a resolution, especially with this pricey of a graphics card, but I am looking at some other options for getting more useful gaming results. Who knows, it may not be too long before we have something in house that's a little less GPU bound to pair up with these ultra-fast CPUs :)I am also considering doing a high end CPU + SLI/Crossfire article to look at exactly what the CPU/GPU balance of today's games happens to be.
But to keep this post short - request heard and understood :)
Take care,
Anand
bob661 - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
Aaawwwww sooky sooky!! Come on, give us a little more please!!!!
Questar - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
How about using the D3D Null driver?Tytanium - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
I would have liked to have seen it running at 14x200 so it had the same clock as an FX-57 though :/, for comparison's sake (dual core and all that)Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link
We've done dual core vs. single core articles in the past that would be able to give you the answers you're looking for. While they weren't at 2.6GHz, their results are still applicable today.Take care,
Anand