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AMD's Athlon 64 Has Arrived: the Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 (and Intel's P4 Extreme)

1:02 PM - September 23, 2003 by Frank Völkel

1. A New World Order: The Athlon 64 FX And Athlon 64 Vs. The P4 Extreme
2. A New World Order: The Athlon 64 FX And Athlon 64 Vs. The P4 Extreme, Co...
3. A New World Order: The Athlon 64 FX And Athlon 64 Vs. The P4 Extreme, Co...
4. Four Different CPUs With One Design
5. Four Different CPUs With One Design, Continued
6. Chipsets & Mainboards: Socket 754 Vs. Socket 940
7. Chipsets & Mainboards: Socket 754 Vs. Socket 940, Continued
8. Video 10 To Download: Athlon 64 FX-51 Vs. Athlon 64 Vs. P4 3.2 Extreme
9. Athlon XP-64 Core: 95 Percent Athlon
10. Athlon XP-64 Core: 95 Percent Athlon, Continued
11. HyperTransport: A High-speed Bus Without Detours
12. Socket 462 Gets Replaced: Sockets 745 And 940/939
13. Fab30 Dresden Yield: 73 Athlon 64 CPUs Per Wafer!
14. All AMD And Intel Processors At A Glance
15. Rough Going - Hardware In The Test Panel
16. Asus P4C800-E Deluxe: Board Revision 1.02, BIOS 1011 Beta 006
17. Asus SK8N: Board Revision 1.03, BIOS 1003 Beta 003 (NVIDIA Settings)
18. MSI MS-9130: Board Revision 1.0, BIOS 1.0BD
19. General Hardware: Now More Hard Drive Performance
20. AMD Test Platforms At A Glance
21. Test Configuration And Special Features
22. Sysmark 2002: Why Use Obsolete Applications?
23. Benchmarks Under Windows XP - UPDATED
24. SPECviewperf 7.1
25. OpenGL Games: Serious Sam
26. OpenGL Games: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
27. Synthetic: 3D Mark 2001 SE

28. Games: Comanche 4
29. Games: Unreal Tournament 2003
30. Games: Splinter Cell
31. Games: Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne
32. Synthetic: 3D Mark 2003
33. Game: X2 - The Threat Rolling
34. Game: Gun Metal
35. Games: AquaMark3
36. MPEG Encoding: Main Concept MPEG Encoder
37. MPEG-Encoding: Pinnacle Studio 8.8
38. MPEG-Encoding: Xmpeg & Divx 5.1 Pro
39. MPEG-Encoding: Windows Media Encoder 9
40. MPEG-Encoding: MS Movie Maker 2
41. Magix MP3 Maker 2004 Diamond
42. Lame MP3 Encoder
43. Steinberg Nuendo 2
44. Sysmark 2002
45. Winrar 3.2
46. Newtek Lightwave 7.5
47. Cinema 4D XL 8.1
48. Seti@home 3.03
49. 3D Studio Max 5.1
50. Mathematica 5
51. PC Mark 2002 Pro
52. SiSoft Sandra Max 3
53. Heat Protection: Now From AMD, Too
54. Summary: The P4 3.2 EE Wins 32 Times, The Athlon 64 FX-51 15 Times - An ...
55. Summary: An Uncertain 64 Bit Future For AMD, Continued

Batten down the hatches: AMD's 64 bit desktop processors, the Athlon 64 FX-51 and Athlon 64 3200+, are finally here. We can unequivocally say that this marks the most interesting and exciting comparison of the past two years. Well aware of what is at stake, the THG team allotted four weeks for this test.

In the same breath, there's another premier that was unknown, even to Intel brass, until a few days ago: the Pentium 4 in the Extreme version. If these developments are too much to handle, you can also download our new video.