Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Dual Core)
Things have been quite busy as of late. My wife’s family and mine both have had some health problems as of late and I haven’t had much time to spend on the site. Hopefully things will settle down a little bit now.
AMD released info about the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ recently. It looks like a pretty amazing deal and supposively they should be able to be had for around ~$350 when they are released. Tom’s hardware has a review and some benchmark results for the new X2. Needless to say it’s performance is very impressive when multitasking or using multithreaded applications. It actually beats there FX-57 in a lot of those tests - a chip that costs around $1,100! I think I may have found my next CPU.