FX57 overclocked, undercooked, picked to bits

MORE ON THE FX57. OCworkbench has overclocked the FX57 to 400MHz FSB with the clock multiplier set at 7x. All this was done on an ULI M1695 board. It seems that the nForce Ultra has finally met with some worthy competition. As for the FX57, its overclocking prowess impresses.

The chip gets picked up at Tomshardware guide. Raging fast and Exorbitantly Expensive is how the reviewers describe it. Tomsboys highlight the end of the dominance of Intel's processors on some benchmarks as the FX57 takes over. Expect a blood bath when Dual Core FXes are introduced.

An interesting article at Firingsquad brings the AMD X2 4200+ head to head against the FX57 and a Dual Opteron 252 as well as the 3500+ and the FX55. How will the former compare to its elder brother which cost more than $400 more. The X2 4200+, one must not forget, is made up of two AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice cores, each with 512KB L2 cache. Some very enlighting conclusions to follow.

Following an X86-secret article comparing the performance of two heads against two brains - Dual Xeon vs Dual Core, there's another such article at digit life where the Pentium XE 840 is compared to a pair of Intel 3.2GHZ Xeons with 1MB L2 cache and 2MB L2 cache respectively. The performance of both is similar. The choice of the platform though makes the XE840 a better choice for power users while the Xeons seems to be stuck in the server segment.

On from yesterday's Celeron which reached 4GHz, a bunch of Norwegians at DreamHack and did some overclocking on a Celeron 2.53GHz. They pushed it up to its limit using dry ice - obviously, you won't be able to use it in your every-day tasks, but anyway, they achieved 5.26GHz at 1.77v - 19x276.5MHz. The FSB has been more than doubled from 133Mhz.

Xtremeresources tests the Aerocool Turbine Power 450w which is a high end PSU with smart cable management. It has a black mirror surface finish and UV active plastic sleeving. More interesting though is its double layer 120mm fan blades which means quieter and more efficient cooling. Obviously, this one is meant to be displayed in a modded case.

Finally, Bjorn3D reviews the Compro Videomate Action Ultra which is a compact exterrnal tuner TV box. Compatible with the USB 2.0 norm, it supports S Video, Composite video and stereo audio input. It has an integrated FM radio and has no need for an external power adapter. On top of that, it comes with a decent software package and a credit card size remote control. And it comes with an external aerial. µ