As you can see, there isn’t anything new about the X2-6000+. AMD has used their older 90nm based Windsor core with an increased voltage of 1.44v for this CPU. It’s clocked at 3.0GHz by using a default multiplier of 15x and has 1MB L2 cache per core. The question today is whether this higher clock speed allows AMD CPUs to compete with Intel’s current Core 2 lineup in the higher-end segment. Its funny putting this question forward as we were asking the same thing in our reviews a year ago, however, at that time, it was Intel that was ramping up the clock speeds for their Pentium 4 CPUs to catch up to the Athlon64 CPUs.



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