Sudhian Media has posted a review on the Athlon 64 “Newcastle” and Athlon 64 FX-53

When AMD launched the Athlon 64 last September its debut was marred by a great deal of uncertainty over what platforms would provide the CPU’s long-term future. In contrast to the stability of Socket 462 which debuted in 2000 and has continued to the present day, AMD chose to launch a Socket 754-based Athlon 64 and a Socket 940-based Athlon FX (basically an Opteron of a different name). At the same time, Sunnyvale announced its intention to migrate both CPU’s to a new, dual-channel Socket 939 platform. This new platform would allow four-layer boards (rather than the current six) and would be the basis for volume Athlon 64 production.

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