Hexus takes a look at AMD's brand new FX-57 gaming processor. Here's a snip:

With the 130nm FX-55, clocked at 2600MHz with 1MiB of full-speed L2 cache memory, AMD's AMD64 64-bit ISA, a dual-channel memory controller and SSE2 support, AMD had a class-leading processor that sat pretty at the top of the x86 and x86-64 CPU tree. Intel's recent efforts with Extreme Edition and 6-series Pentium 4 processors didn't dislodge the FX-55 from its position. That's given rise to the FX-57 not displacing the FX-55 from a sales perspective. AMD's initial plans for the FX line of CPUs, which started with FX-51, were to sell only one model at a time, dropping the old one from stock lists and pricing sheets whenever a new model was born.



Link: Hexus