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AMD Athlon64 FX-62 reviewed - [hardware]
05:49 PM EDT - Jul,02 2006 - post a comment

The chaps over at T-Break reviewed the Athlon64 FX-62. Currently available at US$ 1200 (approximately AED 4500), the FX-62 is a 2.8GHz dual core CPU with 2MB L2 Cache. Its based on the same 90nm Windsor core as the Athlon64 5000+ and supports DDR2-800 modules. Here's a taster:
Generally speaking, the FX-62 is slightly faster than the FX-60 which is a good thing as the FX-60 is pretty damn fast. By increasing the clock frequency by 200MHz on the FX-62, AMD has managed to overcome the loss of performance caused by the high latencies of DDR2. This makes the FX-62 the fastest CPU currently available.

Since these CPUs are based on AMD's 90nm process, we weren't expecting much room in the overclocking department. The best we could get out of the FX-62 was 3010MHz or slightly above 3.0GHz at default voltage. We didn't play much with providing higher VCore but you could expect a few more MHz. AMD has improved upon power consumption on their AM2 socket CPUs and they supposedly use lesser power under load that their 939 counterparts. Unfortunately, we don't have any equipment to test this out.

The only thing that stands in the way of the might FX-62 is Intel's upcoming Core 2 CPU- as you saw in the benchmarks on the previous pages. Granted that the Core 2 is still a few weeks away from being available, we doubt anyone would be interested in buying a $1200 FX-62 along with a new motherboard and memory modules when the E6600 which will probably cost a third of that and offer higher performance with lower power consumption.


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