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 ...

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Although the AM2 platform is slightly slower than its predecessor, the overclocking potential is far more impressive. Of course for this article I was more interested in the overclocking abilities of ...

Yesterday morning, AMD announced its first member of the Athlon 64 X2 product family to break the 3GHz barrier, but it is not the company's first 3GHz processor for general consumers. That title goes ...

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As earlier expected, AMD started shipping its Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3600+ dual-core CPU to channel partners ahead of the original schedule. The processor is priced at US$149 in the channel,... Save ...

The Digital Home experiment has been going on for quite some time now, even Intel tried this with its Pentium D line. While Digital Home is a great idea, it simply wasn't feasible with processors of ...

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 ...

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 ...

To gauge how far our Athlon 64 X2 6000+ sample overclocked, I used the same Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard that we've used all the way through our performance testing. I set CPU vCore to 1.50V and ...