AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Review @ GDHardware

Clocked at 2.8GHz, the FX-57 continues the “San Diego” core AMD released with the FX-55, but is stepped up a paltry 200MHz faster. What’s interesting is that 200MHz on the Intel side of things doesn’t always mean that great of a performance gain – not so with AMD. Additionally, the revamped memory controller tweak introduced on the FX continues in this new chip and it means it’s not as particular as previous designs were with varying memory configurations.

If you are the ultra-gamer who needs the fastest, check out the review at GD Hardware. It comes in at 2.8GHz, and while the review doesn’t get into overclocking, I’m sure it would easily touch 3.4GHz at least. At least it should, considering the $1,000 price tag.