And we were also impressed that AMD was able to deliver a high ... after nothing more than a simple BIOS update. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+, and the 4600+, 4400+, and 4200+ announced that day were ...

Earlier this month, Crave revealed AMD's brand-new ... the £740 Athlon 64 FX-57, was the undisputed king of gaming performance, but the £560 dual-core X2 4800+ was a smarter purchase.

Three weeks ago AMD decided to unleash a new processor ... is based on the "Toledo" core which we also know from the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and X2 4800+ I already spilled the beans, but yes this ...

Today AMD is officially unveiling a new top-of-the-line socket AM2 processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. The X2 6000+ sports a full 1MB of L2 cache per core and is clocked at a healthy 3.0GHz ...

In memory bandwidth, it delivers the customary AMD shoe to the wiggling Intel behind, the revered Athlon 64 on-die memory controller ... standing forerunners, the X2 4600 . The additional 600MHz ...

Yesterday morning, AMD announced its first member of the Athlon 64 X2 product family to break the 3GHz barrier, but it is not the company's first 3GHz processor for general consumers. That title ...

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ shines in some areas, but overall it is a slower and more power hungry processor than what Intel is offering for around £30 more than AMD's £300 asking price. In fact ...

The new Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is also interesting because it uses a fixed clock multiplier. So, in the universe of single-socket AMD CPUs, the FX-62 is the top unlocked single-socket CPU at 2.8GHz.

In the meantime, however, AMD has added in a couple of energy-efficient processors to its line-up and bolstered the top end with the Athlon 64 X2 6000+: the first AM2 processor to run at 3GHz.