AMD's Dual Core Athlon 64 X2 Strikes Hard

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Athlon 64 X2 Test System

AMD provided us with a complete test platform for our evaluation. It is based on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard using NVIDIA’s nForce4 chipset. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ was pre-installed together with a pair of 512 MB DDR400 low-latency DIMMs by Corsair.

The A8N-SLI is one of the most attractive motherboards right now as it supports a wide processor range - including dual cores now, obviously - and features PCI Express dual graphics with optional SLI, dual Gigabit Ethernet and an additional Serial ATA II RAID chip.

CL2-2-2-5 DImms By Corsair

Corsair’s 3200XL Pro series is quite interesting, as it combines the lowest latency chips and comes with DDR activity LEDs on top of the modules. Although multiple vendors offer CL2.0-2-2-5 memory today, Corsair can be considered a safe choice due to the company’s long experience with enthusiast-grade memory.

Patrick Schmid
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.

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  • thomasxstewart
    At time overpriced & people just wern't sure, after conroe & pricing problems of collaspe nature, by end of 2006 this was well established TOP End procesor.
    Coming to full fruitation by Summer '7.Yet, AM2 socket has been improved with on board main support(DDR3 & higher speed DDR2) of next level in AM2+, as well as AM3.
    Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.
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  • vexun11
    I remember thinkin' I was so bad having my amd x2 5600+ overclocked to 3.1 lol
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