It wasn't long ago that Intel was effortlessly raising the clock frequencies of the Northwood core and AMD was busy fudging with the performance ratings on the Barton cores to wring the last drop from a well squeezed orange. But as they say, things change, and this is as true in the semiconductor industry as in any. Now AMD has released onto the market the latest notch in their collective 64-bit belt: the 2.
6 GHz Athlon 64 FX-55. Our review puts this new speed demon through the paces, with results from 3D rendering packages like Lightwave, 3D Studio Max, and Maya, for starters. Benchmark results are also included from scientific and engineering fields, including ScienceMark 2.
0 and Altera Quartus II. So, let's get down to business and take a look at the benchmarked configurations: As our best PCIe graphics board is a GeForce FX 5700 (MSI FX5750), we overclocked the board to 475/750 to squeeze as much performance out of it as possible. The 60.
81 drivers were used for our GeForce FX 5750 (128 MB) video card. For all VIA based boards, we used the VIA Hyperion 4-in-1 4.51 drivers.
All motherboards were flashed with the latest BIOSes. All systems used Corsair CMX512 - 3200LL (XMS3205v1.2) 400 MHz DDR SDRAM (2-3-2-8), except the Athlon 64 FX-53 S940, which used 400 MHz CAS 2.
5 Registered memory, and of course, the LGA775 Pentium 4 3.6 GHz, which was equipped Micron PC2-4300 4-4-4-10 (4-4-4-12 according to the SPD).
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