CPU Reviews Roundup

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GamePC takes a look at the top of the line FX-60, Xbitlabs reviews the overclockers special, the Opteron 165, and Techreport compares the Pentium M 760 against AMD's Turion 64 ML-44.

View: A Beginning And An End : AMD’s Athlon64 FX-60 Processor @ GamePC
View: The Best-Value Dual-Core AMD Processor: Opteron 165 CPU Review @ Xbitlabs
View: Intel's Pentium M 760 versus AMD's Turion 64 ML-44 @ Techreport

GamePC
The FX-60 is the fastest processor out there, and Intel’s offerings really aren’t coming close in the big picture. Our benchmarks clearly show that this new FX model gives better performance compared to AMD’s own Athlon64 X2 models along with Intel’s new Pentium-D processors. While Intel has improved performance and efficiency with their new 900-series chips, and they can even win a benchmark here or there, it’s still pretty clear that AMD owns the dual-core arena. The FX-60 really is the best of both worlds, as the chip provides excellent performance in both workstation-class application and games.

Xbitlabs
The processor potential proved very attractive even in this case. Without any additional efforts (except the lowering of the HyperTransport clock frequency multiplier and increasing of the memory frequency divider) we managed to get our CPU work stably at 280MHz clock generator frequency. In other words, the CPU proved stable and working at 9x280MHz=2520MHz clock frequency withoutany additional Vcore increase.

TechReport
What strikes me about these results is how, for all of the differences in architectures and the back-and-forth battles on individual tests, on the whole the two processors seem evenly matched, as evidenced by the tie on the overall WorldBench score.

Whatever your budget or platform there plenty of good CPU choices to choose from.

Source: Short-Media