Athlon 64 FX57 Performance Preview @ AMD Zone

It is hard to believe, but it has been since October 18th of last year since AMD released a faster speed grade. That CPU was the Athlon 64 FX55 which was released along with the 4000+, and came 5 months after the FX53 and 3800+. Then a picture of me, a bunch of our my lan party guys, and some model went up on the FX product page. Now back to the FX55 release. That was an astonishing 8 months ago, and is a far cry from 2000 when CPU releases were like full moons. You knew you were having one coming every month.

They easily overclocked it to 3.0GHz, so with a fair amount of tweaking, I’m sure it can go much higher. Check out the in-depth look at AMD Zone.