Conclusão: Although the AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 is fast, there are still certain areas that could be further improved. While AMD's Athlon 64 core is known to be fantastic at integer performance, it still fell prey to certain applications that depend a lot on the processor's floating-point performance.
Resumo: Исходно процессоры семейства Athlon 64 FX предназначались для рынка высокопроизводительных рабочих станций широкого профиля и мощных игровых компьютеров с передовыми технологиями обработки трехмерной графики и звука.
Prós: Процессоры серии Athlon 64 FX имеют некоторые особенности, которые могут заинтересовать «разгонщиков»: коэффициент умножения в них не зафиксирован.
Conclusão: AMD's transistion to 90nm SOI has been entirely successful. With full-family, mass-market single-core products on sale today, Athlon X2 dual-core around if you know where to shop and now a new range-topping Athlon 64 FX, AMD have released consumer processors across their entire Athlon 64 product...
Resumo: I was all ready to give you my spiel about how I'd rather have a dual-core Athlon 64 X2, of any flavor AMD currently offers, over the FX-57. Then I ran those numbers on the dual GeForce 7800 GTX cards in SLI.
Resumo: The AX8 is ABITÂ’s latest VIA-based Athlon 64 board. Overclocking quirks aside, this board performed surprisingly well. Should you consider VIA as an alternative to NVIDIA for your next AMD motherboard?
Resumo: AMD has overclocked its top gaming processor to 2.8GHz. Besides, the Athlon 64 FX is now based on the new 90nm San Diego core which brings in SSE3 support, improved overclockability and reduced heat dissipation. But are these things worth paying over $1000 for? Find the answer in our report!