
AMD’s FX processor series is far from new, but there are a few new features in their FX-57 CPU that we are looking at today.First, for those that are not “in the know” about the FX processor, here is a bit of basic background. The FX processor stay seated firmly as AMD’s gaming processor even though it no longer touts both superior clock speeds and superior L2 cache.Nowadays,the Fx series is simply defined by a healthier clock speed as 1MB L2 caches have seeped down into the vanilla Athlon 64 line of CPUs.These FX-series chips will be available in eight, six and four core editions with TDPs ranging from 95W to 125W.The primary family of AMD FX-series central processing units (CPUs) will feature two eight-core models, one six-core flavor...