October 19, 2004

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ socket 939 Processor Review @ PCStats

“On October the 19th, AMD officially launched the latest version of its successful Athlon 64 processor line, the 2.4GHz Athlon 64 4000+. PCstats spent a few weeks with this CPU prior to its release, and after running the silicon through its paces, we’ve come to a couple conclusions which we’ll share with you in this review. These Athlon 64 processors share the socket 939 form factor with the high end Athlon 64 FX class, though as you will see later in this review, the line between the two is beginning to blur. To be specific, the Athlon 64 4000+ contains twice as much Level 2 Cache memory of the Athlon64 3800+. In other words, this chip is packing a full 1MB of exclusive L2.”

AMD Athlon64 - 64-bit vs. 32-bit, A Head On Comparison @ PCStats

“A new era of 64-bit computing is coming though, and it got us to thinking… what does 64-bit, specifically the 64-bit support built into AMD’s Athlon 64 and AthlonFX processors, have to offer the gamer and enthusiast markets? In this article PCstats will examine the performance of the AMD Athlon 64 processor using conventional Windows XP and 32-bit benchmarking software, and compare those results to the same tests using the 64-bit ‘x64 edition’ beta version of Windows XP.”

Logitech Z-3 @ Overclockers Online
XFX 6800GT @ OC-Zone

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