The Inquirer reports that we hear, Fido was hanging around the hallowed halls of Intel's Developers Forum in San Francisco this week, hawking a 64-bit chip called the Athlon FX-53 in a bid to steal some of Chipzilla's thunder. This retail AMD Athlon FX53-powered system sports a 256Mb Radeon 9800 Pro and two slivers of Kingston KVR DD400-X72-RC3A (ECC REG) memory, all sitting in an Asus SK8N mainboard. Hard disk is a Maxtor 6Y120P0.

Athlon FX-53 Benchmarked