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Remember the memory speed discussion on one of the pages above? As you can see, the Athlon 64 X2 5600+ delivers shorter compression times in our WinRAR benchmark because its memory runs at full DDR2-800 speed, while the 6000+ at its 3.0 GHz clock speed can only run at DDR2-750. Clearly, this has quite an impact.

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.