A Look At AMD's Socket AM2 Platform

Test Setup

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Processors
Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Manchester (2400 MHz 64+64/512 kB)
Socket AM2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Windsor (2400 MHz 64+64/512 kB)Support for DDR2-667 ONLY ! Production processors will support faster DDR2-800 RAM.
Motherboards
Socket 939 Undisclosed Pre-Production Socket AM2 MotherboardChipset : Nvidia GeForce 6150 & nForce4 430
Socket 939 MSI K8NGM2Rev. 1.0 Bios : 080012Chipset : Nvidia GeForce 6150 & nForce4 430
Socket 939 Asus A8N32-SLIRev. 1.01 Bios : 1009Chipset : Nvidia NForce4 SLI X16
Memory
DDR2-667 Corsair CAM2X512A-5400UL (XMS5400 V1.2)2x 512 MB DDR2-667 (333 MHz, CL3-2-2-8, 1T)Running at CL-4-4-4-12 Timings - not changeable in test motherboard BIOS
DDR400 Corsair CMX512-3200XLPRO2x 512 MB DDR400 (200 MHz, CL 2.0-2-2-5 1T)
Common Hardware
Graphics Card (PCIe) MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256GPU : Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX (430 MHz)Memory : 256 MB GDDR3 (1200 MHz)
Hard Drive I SATA Western Digital WD74074 GB, 8 MB Cache, 7200 UPM
Hard Drive II SATA Western Digital WD1600160 GB, 16 MB Cache, 7200 UPM
DVD-ROM Gigabyte GO-D1600C (16x)
Software
Nvidia nForce 4 SLI X16 Forceware x16 6.85
Nvidia nForce 4 430/410 Forceware 430/410 8.22
Nvidia Graphics Detonator 81.98
DirectX Version : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.