Testseek.com have collected 37 expert reviews of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 2.6GHz Socket 939 and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 2.6GHz Socket 939.
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First of all I would like to point out that the year 2006 promises to become the year of overwhelming spreading of dual-core processors. Thanks to the efforts of the graphics card driver developers, the number of applications improving showing better r...
Abstract: Editors note: Weve updated this First Take to reflect the fact that the systems on which we had trouble testing the FX-60 all arrived with overclocked parts. (1/11/06)Hot on the heels of Intels second-generation dual-core Extreme Edition 955 chip co...
Abstract: I was fairly surprised with Intel’s Pentium Extreme Edition 955. It wasn’t because the chip bore a confusing name (955? Are we talking processors or chipsets here?) or that it encountered some still-unresolved thermal issues on my open test be...
With dual core enhancements to graphics drivers, the FX-60 comes out on top in most of the tests falling right in line with AMD’s positioning of the FX series as the fastest desktop CPU. The FX-57’s slightly higher clock speeds help it get pas...
The Athlon 64 FX-60 may not be the most attractive processor, based on its price, but its good to see that the two slower Athlon 64 X2s with 1MB L2 cache per core keep up quite well with it. At , the Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is an attractive buy compared t...
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 is the best consumer processor AMD have ever produced. With effectively a pair of FX-55s sat in the same socket, sharing an efficient memory controller, its close enough to FX-57 in single-threaded apps that the multi-threaded adv...
While the FX-60 is the fastest out-of-the-box dual-core CPU in production today, its really only one speed grade faster than the much cheaper Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which is just as overclockable. This really sums up the principal problem now bedevilli...