Sidney

With that said, with the exception of one multi-tasking scenario, the Athlon 64 FX-60 is the fastest all-round processor on the planet. The Pentium Extreme Edition 955 may be attractive to someone who often finds themselves wanting to do more than two things at the same time, but that market is limited to a few die hard power users. However, it's worth noting that there are rare occasions where I find myself running out of processor power with my current Athlon 64 X2.
Link
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...4_fx-60/1.html

AMD has resolved the situation by launching the latest version of the
Athlon FX as FX-60 rather than FX-59, and the big news is that it’s a
dual core processor. The new FX has a clock speed of 2.6GHz, which is
nominally 200MHz slower than the 2.8GHz FX-57, while the X2 4800+ runs at
2.4GHz. In many respects the FX-60 is a pair of FX-55s in a single Socket
939 processor, or if you prefer you could think of it as an Athlon 64 X2
5000+. Naturally the FX-60 is unlocked so while comparison is a little
unfair let’s see how the FX-60 stacks up against the FX-57

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2339

Today, AMD is releasing its latest FX based CPU, the FX-60. First off, you may say, 'What happened to the odd number scheme FX-51, FX-53, FX-55 and FX-57?' Well, this new CPU starts off 2006 in the AMD world of Dual-Core Performance CPU. At this time, we see that these dual-core CPUs will end with an even number scheme.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=866

Well things started to slowly shift. Nvidia and ATI started adding dual core optimizations to their drivers starting in the 80 series and 5.1 versions respectively. That was certainly progress, but the real kicker was when Quake 4 patch version 1.05 beta, and Call of Duty version 1.01 were released. These included multi threading optimizations with assistance from Intel, but our exclusive testing showed clear benefits to AMD dual core processors. So suddenly gamers had some hope that dual core could matter even if so far 64 bit gaming had disappointed most.

http://amdzone.com/modules.php?op=mo...tid=222&page=1

There's not much suspense to hold with this new CPU. The mystique of whether or not the next Athlon 64 FX would be single or dual core was dashed a while ago, and really it was obvious if you think about it. Once you understood that it was dual-core, then going on to figure out the target clock frequency was a piece of cake, given Athlon 64 X2 4800+.

Link: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4347


The FX processors have been granted unlocked multiplier and 1MB L2 cache,
but have also been single core. AMD launched its X2 series in the middle
of 2005 which is AMD's first desktop processor with dual cores and it has
now chosen to send the successor of the FX-57 down the same path.

Link:
http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?skrivelse=462

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jmke

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In house testing between an AMD Athlon64 FX-60 and Intel Pentium D 840 based system illustrate the decreased power consumption of a FX-60, about 40W less power at idle and about 45W at full load. Looking at total system power draw, with both cores stressed, the AMD Athlon64 FX-60 system draws comparably less power than the equivalent Intel PC under the same conditions.

Link: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1918

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