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AMD's 4x4 Platform & Athlon 64 FX-70 - Brute Force Quad Cores

By Patrick Schmid published 30 November 2006

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Page 1: Athlon 64 FX-70 Family Kicks Off Double-Socket Dual Cores
Page 2: Who Needs Two Processors And Four Cores Anyway?
Page 3: Buying FX-70 Means You Buy Two Processors
Page 4: Two Processors = Double The Power Requirements
Page 5: Moving Socket 1207 Into The Enthusiast Space
Page 6: Asus L1N64-SLI WS Dual-Socket
Page 7: Test Setup
Page 8: Benchmark Results
Page 9: Video
Page 10: Applications
Page 11: Synthetic
Page 12: Power Consumption Tests
Page 13: Conclusion

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1 Comment Comment from the forums

jdwii

wow this processor sucked and it had the amd fx name on it too
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