Today though, AMD is taking the wraps off of a brand new Athlon 64 X2 processor, that's priced well below their existing offerings, the Athlon 64 X2 3800+. _•_Support for 64-bit operating ...

While AMD's current line of Athlon XP chips will continue on for some time, the company said that its priority will be its 64-bit chips. "AMD believes the future of computing, from high-end ...

HKEPC has got its hands on the brand new, upcoming AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition CPU and given it a thorough trashing through a wide range of benchmarks. They've also compared it against ...

On the performance front, sources familiar with AMD's plans said the Athlon 64 will run at higher-than-expected clock speeds, a measure that will help against Intel. That leaves the 64-bit angle.

Meanwhile, the desktop chips will come out around June and will be called the Athlon 64 X2, Williams said. AMD will target these ... Microsoft will release the 64-bit version of Windows at WinHEC ...

Today AMD is officially unveiling a new top-of-the-line socket AM2 processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. The X2 6000+ sports a full 1MB of L2 cache per core and is clocked at a healthy 3.0GHz ...

Admittedly, performance per clock has moved on quite a bit since 2002 and AMD has been ... 90nm, Windsor; AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ EE - 2.6GHz, 1GHz HTT, 2x512KB L2 cache, two cores, 65nm, Brisbane ...

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ shines in some areas, but overall it is a slower and more power hungry processor than what Intel is offering for around £30 more than AMD's £300 asking price. In fact ...

In the meantime, however, AMD has added in a couple of energy-efficient processors to its line-up and bolstered the top end with the Athlon 64 X2 6000+: the first AM2 processor to run at 3GHz.

The new Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is also interesting because it uses a fixed clock multiplier. So, in the universe of single-socket AMD CPUs, the FX-62 is the top unlocked single-socket CPU at 2.8GHz.