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I am surprised! No one has yet started a thread on this!

What do you think of this nice little morsel...er...I mean processor?

Imo, Intel better do something quick, or AMD might actually gain some marketshare with this! WOW!!!



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Well, from a quick read it looks very promising for gaming (my main interest). Might need to "mature" a bit before I'll spring for one. What are they gonna cost?

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You know what I find interesting?
That the p4ee is so much more than the fx51 or the new fx 53.
The fx beats the p4ee in gaming and most applications.
Video rendering is still the p4ee's strong point, but not by a lot.
I wonder what people would say if a intel cpu at 1.4ghz was faster than a Amd cpu at 2.4?
Because the fx53 clocks in at 2.4 and beats the p4ee 3.4 in most benchmarks.
I think if they were close in price it would be a tough choice.
But at Newegg they have the 3.2 p4ee at $939, and the athlon fx51 at $745.
You can get a fx51 and a top of the line mb for about the same as a p4ee 3.2.
Now which one would you buy??
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Video rendering is still the p4ee's strong point, but not by a lot.

From what I've seen, it literally kicks the FX-53 in the curb in video rendering.

Anything else and it dominates.

Some areas were impressive as it actually had more performance than the last 200MHZ jump, as in, it seems to have more per clock enhancements sometimes. In other times though, it and the 2.6GHZ OC are very disappointing in how they scale in relation to the FX-51. They do worse than a P4 sometimes.

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Video rendering is still the p4ee's strong point, but not by a lot.

From what I've seen, it literally kicks the FX-53 in the curb in video rendering.

Anything else and the FX-53 dominates.

Some areas were impressive as it actually had more performance than the last 200MHZ jump, as in, it seems to have more per clock enhancements sometimes. In other times though, it and the 2.6GHZ OC are very disappointing in how they scale in relation to the FX-51. They do worse than a P4 sometimes.

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I'm really impressed by the overall results!

The FX-51 already topped P4 in gaming and other stuff, now with a 200MHz boost, the gap s increasing.

The FX-53 still trail in Audio/Video and 3D rendering, but not by much. And when we check the overclocked performance of the FX-53 on the THG charts, it's clear that the Athlon 64 architecture scale well in performance.

I can't wait to see how much the 1000 MHz hyper-transport port of the FX-55 will improve the performance of the FX chip. I think we will not see much difference in memory intensive apps/bench but it might improve a couple other type of benchmarks.

As seen and read in the Xbit-labs review. Intel stills rules when multi-threading is required. Some HT-optimized apps. take advantage of it and multitask benchmarks clearly show that HT is not only a merketing buzzword to sell more CPUs.

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<b>== INTEL EE ==</b>
P4EE 3.4GHz = 999$US (price from THG review)
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe = 159$US
Corsair TwinX CMX256A-3200LL = 304$US (76$US x 4)
<b>TOTAL = 1462$US</b>

<b>== AMD FX ==</b>
Athlon FX-53 = 733$US
Asus K8V Deluxe = 127$US
Mushkin 512MB PC3200 ECC Registered Hi Performance = 274$US (137$US x 2)
<b>TOTAL = 1134$US</b>

I didn't knew that high-perf. registered DDR ram was cheaper than normal DDR ram?!?

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Sooooooo happy to see the Visual Studio Benches, for me this is icing. Nothing like getting your compiles done 30% faster, this is a true test of branch prediction.

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quick question, i didn't understand why they only showed the p4 with 200mhz fsb? i thought the fsb on those EE's go 800MHZ and OVER????

why did it show only 200mhz FSB? Just wondering.... W00t AMD!

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p4 with 200mhz fsb? i thought the fsb on those EE's go 800MHZ and OVER????

why did it show only 200mhz FSB? Just wondering.... W00t AMD!


P4EE FSB is 200MHz QUAD PUMPED... In other owrds it's 200 x 4 and AMD Hyper-Transport is 800MHz too. So, it's a fair comparison. It's like DDR-400, the clock speed is actually 200MHz.

This means P4 transfer 4 bit of info in each clock cycle and DDR ram transfer 2 bit for each clock cycle.

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OMG ...... great job amd



BTW 800mhz fsb is in fact 200 fsb quad pumped (x4)

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WTF? And I quote:

"Compared to $999 for the 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, the $733 price tag for the Athlon64 FX-53, represents a great value, especially in consideration of the performance differences between the two processors. Indeed, the FX is a whopping 35% cheaper than the P4 Extreme Edition."

Who taught them math? The correct equation is (999-733)/999 which equals 26.6%, not 35%.

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The FX-53 does look to be a much better option for the rich or addicted than the P4EE. Actually, is the P4EE an option for anyone? Nobody I know. If you add up all the benchmark charts and go by strickly numbers, the FX53 wins 18 charts, the P4EE wins 18 charts. So it's no landslide, just depends on what it will be used for. But one is overpriced, and one is way overpriced, so to me is nothing more than fun reading and wishful thinking. Nice review though. AMD's future looks to be good. Hope they gain some market share and revenue.

Another surprise to me was just how well prescotts did in those tests. Really surprised me as like most people, i thought the performance edge went to the "C" chips not the "E" chips.


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Their limited OC makes you wonder what the real thermal specifications are.

Overclockability is not only limited by thermal specs. No reason to think AMD is lying about thermal specs.

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I'm very surprised with THG's Cool Edit Pro bench results. I think something is absolutely wrong in his graphic.

I've just tested the same test (Normalize) with Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (in this case with a 200mb wav). I've tested it with:

-An Athlon XP 1700+ clocked to 2000mhz (320DDR FSB -160x12.5-, with 512mb DDR266@320 Dual channel, nForce2, Seagate Barracuda IV ATA100). It would be a 2400+.

-And with a Pentium 4C 3000MHz (800QDR FSB, 1GB DDR400 Dual Channel, i865PE, Seagate Barracuda IV ATA100).

Well, the Athlon 2400+ result is 39.08 sec., and the P4C 3.0GHz result is 38.53 sec. So, P4C beats to XP 2400+ by a minimal 1.5%.

So, a XP Barton 3000+ would smoke to P4C 3.0 in this bench. So, any Athlon would smoke equivalent P4 in this test.

It would be recommendable that THG would revise this test. Im's sure his actual graphic results are absolutely wrong.

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I beg to differ why does liquid nitrogen need to come into the equation to do further overclocking than 200mhz?

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ahh ok, cool well w00t to AMD good job ... deff grabing a 64 bit soon!

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You don’t want to read what I am saying by the looks of it. The cores thermal and electrical characteristics all point to a 1. Thermal issue 2. Architectural limitations 3.poorly designed supporting hardware 4. Power flux causing a clock disrupting skew effects.

Why is it cant over clock 400mhz without liquid nitrogen cooling then?

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I'm gonna have to agree with Xeon on this one, sorry mate.

And I still fail to see how yall get excited about the poor scalability seen thus far from most benchmarks, including scalability of the overclocked CPU.

Some parts left me pretty amazed in the performance gap it left between its weaker sibling and it, but most represent a weak scalability.

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well there are smaller jumps then liquid nitrogen. Lets wait and see what can be done with water and compressor before you say you need liquid nitrogen. And dont give up on air yet, there are many options of air coolers out there to be tested. Ill wait tilll we see mroe overclocking reviews before making my decision, just becuase reviews taht dont usually cover heavy overclcoking did and didnt come up with big results, doesnt mean its a no go. Personally I wasnt expecting some big revoltion with the fx-53, Im waiting to see the 939 transition to see how the cg revision can really perform, or not perform. This piece is mearly to keep the compitition up against the p4ee , although i dont see the reason, there isnta huge demand for p4ee's. Its fine for what its sold at, the performance at stock speed is fine. Ill wait to see some more in depth overclocking reviews.

Yeah, those visual c++ benchies r a wet dream. I wanna buy one just so I can have it run one of my quantum comp simulations.....in 64bit!

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You are probably right that the FX chips wont oc all that well. The top binned chips will go to low power and 8 way opterons. That would be the smart way for Amd to go. Have to wonder what one of the low power chips could do though.

I am sorry but this quote from the article's conclusion doesn't make sense to me. What does the FX-53 or Cool and Quiet have to do with security. And what does "built in overclocking" mean. How stable is the o/c. How 'bout running Prime95 with your o/c?

"The processor supports the AMD-backed Cool & Quiet to reduce dissipation and fan noise during idle or partial-load phases, and, together with the Service Pack 2 for WindowsXP, offers more security. Overclocking is built-in."


...patiently waiting for 10Ghz processors and immersible virtual reality.

Cool and quiet is to do with noise and heat not security. Under low usage, the chip throttles back to stay cooler, and allow the fan to slow,so noise reduction.
For security they are talking about buffer overrun protection, and a few other goodies.
Built-in overclocking means the multipliers have been unlocked to aid ocers.

>You are probably right that the FX chips wont oc all that
>well

Probably, even though I am pleasantly surprised the FX53 seems capable of 2.6 or more easily on stock cooling. Many people thought K8 would never reach that high on .13, I guess this somewhat proves 2.6 GHz should be more than possible for AMD if they would need to (like when they run into trouble with their 90nm process).

I always claimed 2.6 for K8 on 130nm ought to be more than possible considering the redesigned core, SOI and the fact K7 maxed out at 2.33 GHz (even though mobile 2500+ overclocks seem to indicate even faster would have been possible as well).

This is typically AMD, each time you think a core maxes out on a process, it magically seems to gain substantial additional headroom by the time the chip is being EOL-ed. Expect the last batches of 130nm hammers when 90nm ramps up to be very good overclockers, maybe unlike initial 90nm parts.

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I'm thinking that a low power opteron could be coaxed to 3 gigs on air, so if there is a problem at IBM with the 90 nano, Amd should be able to scale the A64 and FX chips a bit more. If a new stepping were required, they may even be able to get to 3.4. That would be impressive.

And the Overclocking built-in can refer to 64 bit ready. This processor should get a decent boost in performance when Windows 64-bit Edition will be fully tested/mature.

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Myself too 2.6GHz on a very large CPU on 0.13 it surprising and it come from Toms.Also FX53 look better on toms reviews that those bench at xbitlabs anandtech.

Do you know if that true that K8 90NM have a TPD of 105 watts.I make a quick look around benchmark it still found that AFX53 is about equal a P4EE

i need to change useur name.

For me the difference in the benchmarks in video rendering is small.
Since I don't do any.....
My uneducated view is still the difference is small, as for kicking it to the curb..... seems like over-exaggeration.
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>I'm thinking that a low power opteron could be coaxed to 3
>gigs on air

If you talking about dry ice overclocks, then probably, some people have already achieved 3 GHz on a FX, but stock speed ? Very doubtfull...

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No, I'm talking about the new stepping, using those parts of the die that are best. Think about the mobile XP chips. That part of the die for xp that was reserved for mobile, is reserved for low power opterons in the K8s. Not only do the opterons use lower v to start, but have a larger overall chip size for better thermal dissapation.

The way I saw it was in relation to its siblings, against the P4. You seem the AXPs and the A64s in the same bunch, fighting the P4s up there. I guess the way I saw it, sounded like they were getting pounded.
They did after all lose to all video benchmarks, and that's a pretty strong thing. It's weird that the P4 is still maintaining such lead. I guess either its SSE-2 is much better or its bandwidth is doing it great service. Then again the A64 FX also uses 6.4GB/sec and should as well have an even better overall usage of that bandwidth of its. (since 6.4GB/sec is really theoretical and prolly never is reached)

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Hi Eden. Perhaps you can help me understand better about Intel winning video benchmarks. At Hardocp they have this <A HREF="http:// http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjAyLDI= " target="_new">http:// http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjAyLDI= </A> that says the amd does rather well at divx avi2wav. I have seen other progs where the amd does well in music decoding. Are these wrong, or are there some progs that are okay with the amd chips?

Interesting results. The P4 still does better overall, but yeah, it seems the AMDs did very nicely in the benchmark you refered me to. Indeed there are always holes where one CPU can still rule. And this is no exception.

Now if only it was a consistent thing across the board. Makes you wonder what each program that encodes video uses for algorithms.

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I'm not that much into video encoding. It seems to me that the A64 should get better once the extra registers come into play, especially the SSE2 ones. We are lucky though to have access to such great tech.

have seen other progs where the amd does well in music decoding. Are these wrong, or are there some progs that are okay with the amd chips?

The real question what programe are ok with P4 by default athlon is much faster.While P4 have more potential.

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thing is you can say same thing with Intel Presscott. Runs hot and dont overclock very well. But we are not in the 80s or 90s anymore. Chips are hotter. And in both cases. Why do you all want a heater Amd or intel. 200mhz is nothing.
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