Page 10: F.E.A.R.: Low and High Resolutions Page 11: Power Consumption Page 12: Our Summary and Conclusion AMD has been fairly quiet as of late. A few months ago, we took a look at their initial ...

Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all). Hot Hardware have a review and it's performance is ...

The system builder, who preferred to remain anonymous, said manufacturer prices for the top-of-the-line Athlon 64 X2 6000+ would drop from $241-per-unit to about $170. The price of an Athlon 64 X2 ...

I've been disappointed in AMD lately. I used to be a hardcore AMD fan, but Intel finally won me over with their Core 2 Duo. That's not to say that I won't give them another chance. Today I'm taking a ...

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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 ...

Page 10: F.E.A.R.: Low and High Resolutions Page 11: Power Consumption Performance Summary: The new AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ performed in-line with our expectations. As the highest clocked socket AM2 ...

Dual-core processors allow you to do more, right? That's the theory, so we've tested it by running a couple of our benchmarks simultaneously, to see how they impact on each other's performance when ...

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 ...

AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62 was launched in May 2006 and still remains the fastest AM2 processor around. We took a look at it and surmised that whilst it was fast, Intel's Core 2 Extreme X6800 was better.