Amd fx-57

[pinki104]

Does anybody know any sites still selling these? Ive searched high and low but only place I see them is eBay at stupid prices

 

[AMG]

I think they are EOL now in favour for the newer varions

 

[pinki104]

Yh I won't rest till I find one, it's too bad nobody is selling on here because i would feel much safer buying from here than eBay

 

[Electroshadow]

i highly recommend these chips i still have one going strong from years back san deiago core..

i was running all my games right up untill 2007

 

[bigjimmyauk]

they are amazing chips hence why the resale value is so high i seen a fx60 go on ebay a couple of months back for £190

u never know a store still might have one knocking around

 

[pastymuncher]

But why? They are obsolete now and massively outperformed by even a low end modern cpu.

 

[pinki104]

i play old games and single cores wipe the floor with duo / quads on single core games e.g. legend of mir ect.

Single core with win xp and acpi tweak and im away

 

[reflux]

Yeah, you are very unlikely to find one anywhere except eBay. They are so old now. Any stats on single core vs. dual core performance in the games you play? I would have thought the improvements in architecture in modern CPUs would make them far outweigh the performance you'd get from an FX-57.

 

[FreeStream]

i play old games and single cores wipe the floor with duo / quads on single core games e.g. legend of mir ect.

Single core with win xp and acpi tweak and im away

You do realise that a C2D *clock for clock* wipes the floor of a AMD 64, right?

Buying a FX57 now seems very, very silly.

 

[pinki104]

im using asus a8n32 deluxe so im pretty limited to be honnest and C2D still doesent run aswell for this game so it needs to be a single

 

[slap ed]

you could always get a cheap socket 939 dual and set the process affinity for the game to a single core

 

[craptakular]

How would the sempron 140 am3 chip run?

Runs great in my HTPC. Only £25 too.

 

[Lanz]

Yup a Sempron 140 would beat an FX-57.

 

[craptakular]

I would really look into the sempron 140, it's cheap and must be as faster/faster than your retro fx-57.

It also unlocks to dual core with the right mainbaord and will be a hell of a lot cooler than the 90nm fx-57.

 

[craptakular]

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=806576

quote from the links first post: A VERY strong single core CPU for the $. Certainly makes the old generation, and for that matter the Celeron 4xx obsolete.
It's also funny to think, the CPU of CPU's in 2005 - the FX-55 would be comfortably outperformed by a stock Sempron.

 

[Uriel]

You would be mad to buy a high end single core 939 chip for now, more so with dual cores - which are amazingly expensive. Pocket change will get you an AM2, AM3 or 775 rig that would destroy it.

When I went from 939 and DDR to AM2 and DDR2 the resale value of the old components paid for the upgrade with some change.

If you must stay with 939 single core just overclock for all its' worth. The Athlon 64 3000+ and Opteron 144 were both clocked at 1.8GHz and would reach 3GHz+ on air.

 

[ghop]

An FX-57 now would be competely pointless, seeing as the Sempron 140 outperforms it by a fair bit! Anyone who pays over the odds for them on ebay is nothing short of an idiot (I'm sorry, but it's true )

 

[Guest2]

i highly recommend these chips i still have one going strong from years back san deiago core..

i was running all my games right up untill 2007

I still have a X2 3800+ running at 2.8ghz. It plays all my games fine

 

[MagicBoy]

How on earth can a dual core of similar clock run slower with a particular bit of software? If said software is not written to use multiple cores/threads then the second core will just sit there dormant running some background stuff for the OS. If it is true then the software is spectacularly badly written.

Big money on an old FX chip is just nostalgia.