AMD Athlon 64 3800+ & FX53

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited May 2004 in Science & Tech
T-Break have got hold of AMD's latest 64-Bit CPU's in the form of the Athlon 64 3800+ and FX53.
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Today, AMD is sorting that problem by releasing their new Socket 939 based CPUs. Again, we see two flavors- the FX53 and the Athlon64 both of which offer a dual channel memory controller that can work with normal non-ECC type of memory modules. The only difference between the two CPUs is the amount of L2 cache- while the FX has a full 1MB, the Athlon64 3800+ only offers 512k L2 cache- based on AMD’s newcastle core. Both these CPUs are clocked at 2.4GHz. We take both of these CPUs out for a ride today. Lets take a look at the testbed.
Source: T-Break

Comments

  • KingFishKingFish
    edited May 2004
    That 3800+ is looking mighty sweet. I hope the price will be right on it. Now, how to unlock that cache...

    KF
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