Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. AMD recently announced a new revision of the Athlon 64 processor core. This new revision codenamed ...

For our next round of synthetic benchmarks, we ran the CPU and Memory performance modules built into Futuremark's PCMark05. "The CPU test suite is a collection of tests that are run to isolate the ...

Dual-core processors allow you to do more, right? That's the theory, so we've tested it by running a couple of our benchmarks simultaneously, to see how they impact on each other's performance when ...

ha ha that is too funny. they need to shift their athlon line to dual cores only and shift the sempron to 512kb l2 cache. The way they have prices laid out for am2, i do not see sempron selling ...

Rob founded Techgage in 2005 to be an 'Advocate of the consumer', focusing on fair reviews and keeping people apprised of news in the tech world. Catering to both enthusiasts and businesses alike; ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

Crecente from Kotaku finally got around to ordering the parts for his upcoming gaming PC, when he got his CPU order cancelled. This threw him into a fit of rage, where he discarded his usual ...

Tech Report has a story about AMD's plans for some of its older Athlon CPUs. Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 4400+, and 4000+ for Socket AM2 and model 4400+ for Socket 939 chips will be retired soon, as will ...

An FEA is primarilly limited by memory bandwidth, and secondarily limited by compute performance. The Athlon has the lowest of both, and should be ignored unless budget demands it's use.<BR><BR>The ...

Tech Report has a story up about AMD's plans to release a dual-socket desktop platform later this year. With this platform, enthusiasts will be able to run two dual-core Socket AM2 Athlon 64 FX CPUs ...

What's evident is that the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, clocked in at 3GHz, is not the fastest CPU around. That honour falls squarely on Intel's Core 2 family, headlined by Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and X6800 ...

For this next batch of tests, we ran Kribibench v1.1, a 3D rendering benchmark produced by the folks at Adept Development. Kribibench is an SSE aware software renderer where a 3D model is rendered and ...