AMD Athlon

by Rafael Hernandez on November 5, 2004 · 0 comments

The Crucible has a look at the AMD Athlon 64 supporting MSI K8N Neo Platinum(socket754) and K8N Neo2 Platinum(socket939) both of which feature NVIDIA nForce3 chipsets, 250Gb in the former and Ultra in the latter. They both perform well with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 2, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP is all over Shuttle’s latest barebones PC, the XPC SN95G5. The system comes stocked with NVIDIA’s nForce3 Ultra chipset and can handle all flavors of AMD’s Athlon 64 Socket 939 chips. The performance out of this small box is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 28, 2004 · 0 comments

One of the lesser known motherboard manufacturer’s gets the star treatment from AnandTech today. The Soltek K8TPro-939 comes in at a nice price-point but it still offers all of the great features an AMD Athlon64 board is expected to deliver…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 27, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC does their thing with the AMD Athlon64 FX-55, the current top-of-the-line processor in AMD’s lineup. The chip has some of the fastest performance seen in a dekstop chip, now it’s just waiting for chipsets that can complement its power…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2004 · 0 comments

The AMD side of the desktop computing world has been missing some key features for future upgradeability and performance scaling, namely the lack of PCI Express. NVIDIA has launched its new nForce 4 chipset for the Athlon 64 line of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2004 · 0 comments

It’s amazing how many reviews simultaneously pop up once companys announce a new product line and it’s no different with AMD’s launch of the Athlon 64 4000+ and FX-55 processors. The two new chips offer up some great performance which…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 18, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a hunch that AMD will be releasing some new Athlon 64 chips this week which will the raise performance bar, and pricetags, as well. The Athlon 64 FX-55 and Athlon 64 4000+ will occupy the top two…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Nothing better than a good round-up of products, this time HardwareZone has gathered seven (7) motherboards which feature a few different variants of the NVIDIA nForce3 250 chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Thirty (30) pages of details, benchmarks,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

InsaneTek has a look at the Thermalright XP-90 Intel Pentium4/AMD Athlon64 heatsink. This little-brother to the XP-120 features a ton of surface area, heatpipes, and an anti-corrosive nickel plating as well as a mounting surface for 92mm fans, all of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 14, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech pushes the new 90-nanometer versions of the socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and 3500+ to their limits. The default performance for these chips is impressive but that’s not the only reason they will become popular with the enthusiast…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2004 · 0 comments

ATI has begun shipping system chipsets for the AMD Athlon 64 platform ahead of its rivals in a whole new arena. The new PCI-E based chipsets will come in two different flavors, with integrated graphics or without, and appears it…

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