AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Review

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor is the top of the line for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 line of CPU's. At 125 watts of power this processor begs for some good cooling and a very steady hand when it comes to overclocking. But I won't be overclocking this beast, it would be a shame to mess with something
this good straight from the box.

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor is a 3 Ghz processor that rivals the Intel E6600 CPU and clearly is the best of the AMD AM2 sockets at this time. The 6000+ processor is built with the L2 cache at 1 MB per core that gives you plenty of internal memory for the processor.

I'd like to thank AMD for letting me review this great processor, now on to the review.

AMD as well as plenty of other reviews give all this kind of information that I guess I will include for the real tech guys who are reading:

Frequency: 3.0GHz

Manufactured: Fab 30 and 36 / Dresden, Germany
Process Technology: 90-nanometer DSL SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology
Packaging: Socket AM2 (940-pin organic micro PGA)
HyperTransport technology: Supports single HT link - up to 8.0 GB/sec per link bandwidth
Memory Controller: Shared integrated 128-bit wide memory controller
CPU to Memory Controller: 3.0GHz
Supported Memory Speeds: DDR 2 memory up to and including PC2 6400 (DDR2-800) unbuffered
HyperTransport Links: 1
HyperTransport Spec: 2.0GHz (2x 1000MHz / DDR)
Total Processor bandwidth: Up to 20.8 GB/sec [8.0GB/sec HyperTransport + 12.8GB/sec dual-channel memory]
L1 Cache Sizes: 64K - L1 instruction + 64K - L1 data cache per-core (256KB total L1)
L2 Cache Sizes: 1MB L2 data cache per-core (2MB total dedicated L2 cache)
Approximate Transistor count: 227.4 million
Approximate Die Size: 218mm2
Nominal Voltage: 1.35-1.40V
Max Thermal Power: 125 W
Max Ambient Case Temp: 55o Celsius to 63o Celsius
Max Icc (processor current): 90.4 A
Min P-State (with C'n'Q): 1.0 GHz
o Nominal Voltage @ min P-state: 1.1V
o Max Thermal Power @ min P-state: 36.4 W
o Max Icc @ min P-state: 30.4 A