AMD FX60 Reviews!

The day is finally here! AMD released the new killer Dual Core to their lineup. Rolling in at 2.6GHz, it’s effectively two FX55’s stacked on top of each other.

Bit-Tech: The Athlon 64 FX-60 may not be the most attractive processor, based on its price, but it’s good to see that the two slower Athlon 64 X2’s with 1MB L2 cache per core keep up quite well with it. At £350, the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is an attractive buy compared to the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which currently retails at £535. We suspect that this will come down in due course, but we can’t see it dropping down to a price that makes it even more attractive than the X2 4400+.

Hexus: It won’t be cheap, but then for most FX consumers that matters little. They want the best CPU for their systems and under default conditions, the FX-60 is that microprocessor. As an aside, the particular review sample used for this article does a nice and easy 2.8GHz at stock voltage, and just shy of 3GHz when voltage is upped a little, all on the default PIB cooler. Unlocked multipliers means adjustment of the requisites is a piece of cake.

AnandTech: Then there’s the issue of AMD’s upcoming Socket-AM2; due out in another few months, you obviously won’t be able to use any Socket-939 processors in the new motherboards and there will be no upgrade path beyond the FX-60 for current 939 owners, so our recommendation would be to stay away from the FX-60 unless you absolutely have to build the world’s fastest system today.

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• AnandTech
• Bit-Tech
• Bjorn3D
• Hexus
• Neoseeker
• PC Perspective
• T-Break
• Tech Report