HEXUS.net Review: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester)

Do you want an AMD CPU? Do you want great performance? How about lots of overclocking headroom? Try the Winchester cores! AMD are proving that their new 90nm cores are working rather well, as Tarinder discovered...

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Our off-the-shelf sample was utterly stable at just under 2.4GHz, cooled only by the supplied reference heatsink. All it took was a slight rise in core voltage and a motherboard capable of scaling with the processor's heightened driven clock. Overclocked benchmark results were on a par with a standard Athlon 64 3800+, a processor that costs almost 4x the £110 3000+ retail price. S939 is soon to enjoy the performance benefits that SLI-capable chipsets can deliver, so faster CPU speeds become even more important due to the number of games that will become system-bound with a pair of fast SLI cards working in tandem.

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