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Athlon 64 Delayed Until September
News AMD is to delay the launch of its next-generation desktop processor, the Athlon 64, until September, the company said on Friday. It also announced the official launch date of the server version of the Athlon 64 -- called Opteron -- which will debut...
[January 31, 2003, 13:07]
AMD Slashes Price For Cut-down Athlon 64
News Advanced Micro Devices has quietly trotted out a version of its Athlon 64 chip that provides a little less performance than earlier models but only costs about half as much. The new Athlon 64 3000+ runs at 2GHz, the same as the existing Athlon 64...
[December 19, 2003, 8:30]
Winners: AMD Athlon 64 Processors
News The ZDNet UK competition to win three AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processors is now closed, and we have selected three lucky winners. Congratulations -- your Athlon 64 processors will be on their way to you shortly.
[January 24, 2005, 14:25]
Win Three AMD Athlon 64 CPUs
News What better way to start the new year than with a move to 64-bit computing, and we're here to help you make that start by giving you the chance the chance to win one of three 2.2GHz Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processors, each complete with...
[December 30, 2004, 8:00]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback Just purchased AMD's Athlon 64 3200+ Wow! I've never seen anything as fast as this! Amazing! Cant wait for the 64bit stuff to come out! Those cheek 64FX owners must have the fastest personal computers in the world!
[February 6, 2004, 13:34]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback I purchased an Athlon 64 and Asus k8v motherboard. Overall I think that the Hammer core Athlon 64 is an amazing step forward in processing power. Together they are amazing. I also upgraded to S-ATA and that allowed the system to fully benefit with...
[October 15, 2003, 10:12]
Software Optimization Guide For AMD Athlon 64 And AMD Opteron Processors
White Papers This paper provides optimization information and recommendations for the AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors. These optimizations are designed to yield software code that is fast, compact, and efficient.
[May 30, 2004, 1:03]
Software Makers Gear Up For Athlon 64
News The Athlon 64 chip from Advanced Micro Devices is coming out toward the end of September, and software that takes full advantage of the chip won't be that far behind. As a result, a lot of people will use Athlon 64 machines to run 32-bit Windows code.
[August 7, 2003, 16:55]
AMD Mobile Athlon 64 Targets Intel Pentium-M
News AMD has fleshed out its mobile chip catalogue this week by shipping the Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor. The Athlon 64 architecture includes full compatibility with Intel Pentium 32-bit software as well as new 64-bit features and antivirus...
[September 21, 2004, 15:05]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback Why don't you get a copy of 64 bit Linux and run some 32 bit Pentium Extreme V 64 bit Athlon benchmarks to give a real idea of the performance difference. These are 32 bit bench marks.
[October 1, 2003, 12:54]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback the amd athlon 64 is designed for 64 bit usage not 32 bit and yet it outperforms intels 32 bit line processors in a 32 bit operating system so dont start telling me that zdnet benchmarks are bullshit and that intel processors without a 64 bit mark...
[April 28, 2004, 20:57]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback Ibought an Athlon 64 in the LIDL store on Thursday. The Athlon is certainly faster that any other PC I have ever used, I can recomenned it. The person from Glasgow needn`t have any worries about it heating up, my processor is as cool as when I...
[April 3, 2004, 20:47]
AMD Turbocharges Athlon 64
News Advanced Micro Devices has opened the gate on its highest-speed Athlon FX processor, targeting games players and other extreme desktop fans. The Athlon 64 FX-53, a premium version of its Athlon 64 performance chip was unveiled on Thursday at a...
[March 19, 2004, 10:40]
AMD Readies Dual-core Athlon 64
News The 4800+ is about 22 percent faster, according to the Jonathan Seckler, Athlon 64 product marketing manager for AMD. At the Computex trade show, AMD plans to launch four dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors - the 4800+, the 4600+, the 4400+ and the...
[May 31, 2005, 9:15]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback i read somewhere that the athlon 64 when not in use slowes it self down to save on power and heat i forget where i saw that and is it true
[April 20, 2004, 22:05]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback More than any other application - its High Performance Scientific Computing that needs the extra juice that new processors offer. Obviously it would be great for me if I can finish the jobs that take 2 day in 4 hours.
[December 25, 2003, 13:18]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback I've been keeping in touch with the development of the Athlon 64 for quite some time now and its pretty safe to say that AMD has come out tops again! I just bought an Aspire 1356LMi laptop with Athlon 2800+ XP-M, so going for the Athlon 64 is not...
[February 18, 2004, 13:34]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback It would have been nice to see some sort of comparison against the Apple G5. Increasingly the best software is open source and it doesn't matter what OS you use. Is there an open source benchmark you could add to your suite?
[September 26, 2003, 15:01]
A First Look At AMD's Athlon 64
Talkback Regarding: "While it’s true that a 64-bit version of Windows is not available just yet" - but what about Linux - has this not been available in 64-bit version for some time? If so, would be there be noticable benefits in upgrading from Linux 32 bit...
[September 24, 2003, 10:56]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback Come on industry - AMD has a serious product that could benefit us all! Don't forget, these bench marks are predominantly 32bit tests! Imagine an FX-51 with 2Mb on die L3 Cache (like P4EE).running software optimized for 64-bit.
[September 26, 2003, 15:26]
