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Author: Whoopty | ||
| Posted: 23:00, August 14th 2006 | |||
| Link: http://www.chillblast.com | |||
| Score: 8 out of 10 [?] | |||
| Price: £99 | |||
Introduction
As computer enthusiasts we are currently entering a new era of CPU performance with the launch of Intel's new processor range, Core 2 Duo (Conroe) and AMD's new socket, the AM2. There has been much praise directed towards the whole range of Conroes available, and some criticism thrown towards the higher end AM2s at our disposal. However, what of the lower end of the AM2 market? Today here at XSR we are testing the X2 3800+ CPU from AMD, to see just what it can do.
A Little About AMD
Leading the industry to customer-centric innovation.
Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD designs and produces innovative microprocessors and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries.
Innovation that’s customer-centric.
Since the beginning, our focus has gone beyond integrated circuits and transistors. AMD is committed to helping our customers—and their customers—use silicon to add value and help differentiate their offerings. After all, our customers' success is our success. That’s why AMD products are always developed with customer needs in mind and not for the sake of innovation alone. We provide real solutions for real customer problems that exist in the real world today. It’s a philosophy we refer to as “customer-centric innovation,” and it represents the guiding principle behind everything we do.
Our vision is clear.
At AMD, we never rest on our laurels. Our determination and passion for what we do compels us to keep looking for the next opportunity to succeed. With corporate locations in Sunnyvale, California and Austin, Texas; and global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia, we’re one of the world’s leading integrated circuit manufacturers. We’re also among the market leaders in each of our core businesses: microprocessors and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries.
The future is waiting.
Because our customers’ needs are ever-changing, AMD understands the value of looking towards—and keeping pace with—the future. To help ensure we meet our customers’ needs today and tomorrow, AMD invests in state-of-the-art technology research many years in advance of first commercial use. In fact, we’re well underway in developing high-performance technologies targeted at the second half of the decade.
Specifications
| Processor | AMD Athlon™ 64 |
| Model | 3800+ |
| Operating Mode | 32/64 |
| Frequency | 2000mhz |
| HT Speed | 2000 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB |
| L2 Cache | 512KB |
| Socket | Socket AM2 |
Features List
- AMD64 technology enables leading-edge software performance and new experiences & capabilities. Specifically, AMD64 technology:
- Provides the highest performance levels without any changes to existing 32-bit applications.
- Allows both high-performance 32-bit and 64-bit computing, offering end users an easy, compelling and affordable means to take advantage of tomorrow's emerging applications.
- Doubles the number of internal registers enabling increased performance
- Vastly expands memory addressability well beyond 4GB for breathtaking realism in graphic intensive applications like 3D games, and real-time results for large memory footprint applications like digital
- Enhanced Virus Protection for Windows® XP SP2
- Enhanced Virus Protection enabled by Windows XP SP2 is designed to prevent the spread of certain viruses, like MSBlaster and Slammer, significantly reducing the cost and down-time associated with similar viruses and improving the protection of computers and personal information against certain PC viruses.
- HyperTransport technology helps increase overall system performance by reducing traditional system bottlenecks, increasing system I/O bandwidth, and reducing I/O latency; which translates into overall better performance, quicker loading of applications and extraordinary multimedia experiences.
The integrated Double Data Rate (DDR) memory controller dramatically reduces one of the worst, and most-often encountered system bottlenecks found in existing platform designs; that is memory latency. The integrated DDR memory controller found in the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX processor:
- Provides a performance boost by directly connecting the processor to the memory, thus dramatically reducing memory latency. As a result, performance is greatly improved on many applications, performing almost like an L3 cache.
- Supports industry-standard, widely-available DDR memory modules for high-performance systems to reduce total cost of ownership and/or development.
- Features ECC protection that enables increased system reliability, helping to ensure your systems run smoothly.
- High-Performance, On-Die Cache
- The AMD Athlon 64 FX processor features a large high-performance, on-die cache memory system for desktop PCs. The 1152KB (128KB L1 + 1024KB L2) of total usable cache improves instruction throughput. The end result is greatly improved performance on many applications, especially large memory workloads like digital media applications.
- With the addition of SSE3 instructions to existing 3DNow!™ Professional technology, the AMD Athlon 64 FX processor is compatible with the largest installed base of multimedia-enhanced software.
Software specifically tuned for this suite of instructions means smooth, rich, lifelike images, precise digital audio and an enriched Web experience.
