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Posted: October 31st, 2004
For the past couple of years Intel has been facing fierce competition from the likes of AMD and today that form of rivalry continues. A substantial element of the IT industry has cast their growing support for Intel's archenemy AMD and perhaps it should be no surprise to anyone as to why. AMD's recent Athlon 64/FX-5x series processors have been reaching the grasp of many and represent an offering serious enough to be viewed as a threat to Intel's control as the performance leader. Doing so AMD maintains to employ a different approach to reaching this pinnacle not by pure clock speed but the efficiency it delivers. While there is no qualm about this last statement it is true that the vast majority of software is optimized for Intel processors. Despite the best efforts of both company's it has been evident that neither bare the muscle to entirely be champion in all benchmarks so far. While there is no strict rule of thumb it isn't far from the truth for Netburst to fare better in audio/video encoding, content creation, data analysis whereas the Athlon 64/FX-5x (Newscastle, Winchester, Clawhammer) in games, archiving and multimedia. In the past the Extreme Edition has been observed as an option filling a void at times visible between the Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 processors, users witnessing this new launch should expect nothing else than for this saga is to continue. A fresh substance into this currently year old account is Intel's new 1066MHz FSB; with it performance could grow to further heights beyond the increments possible before, at least theoretically.
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