AMD Athlon 64 FX-57: The Fastest Single Core

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• blckgrffn - Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - link

  The warranty stops as soon as they changed heatsinks. That's it, that was where it should have stopped evidently ;)

• Drazula - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  I hate articles like that. You go through the paces of testing and then recommend a solution that wasn't even tested. Why not include a dual core AMD for comparison? As it is, the article is useless.

• Viditor - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  blckgrffn - "That said, where does it stop?"
  
  I would say that you stop where the warranty does...
  I.e. no overclocking results except to say it was or wasn't stable at x.x Ghz...Because (as Jarred points out quite correctly) OC can be a very hit and miss proposition.

• composer - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  JarredWalton, I get 2.74 stable, air cooling which beats dual opeteron benchmarks, and also runs all the benchmarks stable.
  
  We use our PC's for audio, and it seems that even the X2's perform about the same as a single AMD64 overclocked to 2.75 in audio tests (VST plug ins).
  
  Look at this chart:
  http://www.adkproaudio.com/benchmarks.cfm
  
  Top graph, it shows the X2 at 58% using 256 samples......we get 58% using AMD 64 overclocked but using the older Nuendo 2.2 version, the newer version Nuendo 3 we get 68% however it's known that the security of the new steinberg program uses 10-15% CPU cycles.
  
  Just some thoughts.
  
  

• composer - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

• L3p3rM355i4h - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  Some one tell me why you would buy a $1000 single core proc, when you could buy a $1000 dual core proc thats going to be soooo much better?

• ElFenix - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  i've been asking them to get an editor for a long time. at one time, one of them actually replied and asked what kind of editor. i replied that they needed an english editor, and never heard back. they especially need one with some of the newer authors they have.

• blckgrffn - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  Gotcha, Viditor - but if that is what everyone wants, we should also include the tests done. Yes, I can see how that would have bee a better review, putting say, a 3700+ San Diego and a FX-57 vs each other with all the most expensive goodies and see who came out on top. Heck, SLI some 7800GTX's too, we might as well see how high we can go :)
  
  That said, where does it stop? We want to see it under phase, too, with the 7800's oc'ed under chilled water, and some DDR600 @ 2-2-2-10! ;P

• AtaStrumf - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

  Calin, I meant in terms of overclocking! That's what OC stands for, doh! If you still don't get it, never mind, just know that what I said makes perfect sense ;-)

• Zebo - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link

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