AMD med overclockings-information på pakken !!!

AMD vil officielt understøtte overclocking, med Athlon 64 FX-57. Således vil der være information om mulighederne for overclocking på pakken, både med luft og andre køleformer. Dermed går AMD imod den generelle holdning, der har været blandt processor-fabrikanter, de sidste mange år, hvor overclocking har været bandlyst. Der er dog ikke informationer om hvorvidt garantien vil gælde, hvis man overclocker, og ordet overclocking vil ikke blive brugt, derimod vil ordet unlocking blive brugt.

En anden forbedring, som vi måske ser med Athlon 64 FX-57 er understøttelse af 533 MHz hukommelse.

Performance wise, benchmarks from AMD showed increases in performance of around 7% over the FX55, which correspond to the seven per cent increase in speed, while improvements on Single Core PEE 3.73GHz hoevered around 15 per cent on average. Benchmarks were done using industry standard software like Sysmark or 3DMark.

One improvement that was expected was a boost in the memory controller speed to 533MHz up from 400MHz. Now that opens the door to a certainty. AMD has confirmed that FX will move to DDR2 memory in the "future". When asked, whether it was a near future or a distant one, the representative, Teresa, said probably next year.

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