Athlon 64 FX-57: Great Performance, High Price

San Diego Core Goes FX

The most sophisticated 90 nm core is the San Diego, featuring AMD's latest E4 stepping with SSE3 support and 1 MB L2 cache. Both the San Diego and Venice cores come with a slightly improved memory controller. This not only has a positive influence on overall performance, but also finally allows the deployment of four double-sided DDR400 DIMMs, something that used to cause problems .

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.