AMD's Athlon 64 series was one of the biggest hits before Intel Core 2 Duo. Costing at a whooping Rs. 44000+, these babies performed well.
The AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 was really great, with the new 65nm technology, this baby has a processor frequency of about 2.8 GHz. But if you think this is good, wait till you hear what AMD has in store for its high paying customers this mid-July. To complete the brand new Quad FX platform AMD is introducing three new processors: the Athlon 64 FX-74, FX-72 and FX-70, running at 3.0GHz, 2.8GHz and 2.6GHz respectively. Each physical processor features two cores and a 1MB L2 cache per core, much like previous dual core FX processors, but what sets these CPUs apart from previous FX chips is that they are sold in bundles of two. So when you buy an Athlon 64 FX-74, you are actually buying two dual-core CPUs in a single box. It's not the most elegant way of getting four cores, but it gets the job done and AMD manages to do so at a competitive price. Note that these CPUs are effectively Opterons but with the memory controller configured to support un-buffered DDR2. The FX-74 is the first LGA desktop CPU made by AMD. AMD Athlon 64 FX-74
 These are the new competetive pricings for this year. | CPU | Clock Speed | L2 Cache | Price | | AMD Athlon 64 FX-74* | 3.0GHz | 1MB per core | $999 | | AMD Athlon 64 FX-72* | 2.8GHz | 1MB per core | $799 | | AMD Athlon 64 FX-70* | 2.6GHz | 1MB per core | $599 | | AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 | 2.8GHz | 1MB per core | $713 | | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ | 2.6GHz | 1MB per core | $403 | | Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 | 2.66GHz | 4MB per 2 cores | $999 | | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600** | 2.40GHz | 4MB per 2 cores | $851 | | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 | 2.93GHz | 4MB | $999 | | Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 | 2.66GHz | 4MB | $530 |
Intel Core 2 Duo vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-74
 The left one is Core 2 Duo and the right one is AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 This article was sent by blog reader Harsha. Thank You Harsha. Labels: hardware, review |
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