AMD Athlon

by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

LinuxHardware.org put top Intel CPUs and a single high end AMD CPU through the wringer and came up with some performance figures under a Linux operating system. It would have been interesting to see how the Athlon 64 FX-51 (dual…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2004 · 0 comments

While it had been rumored for months that Intel has been working on chips that include the x86-64 64-bit instruction set, which AMD uses on its Athlon64 line, they’ve only now hinted about it. ITworld.com has more details….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Digit Life has taken the latest and greatest CPUs from both Intel and AMD and ran them through a barrage of tests carefully noting results for your perusal. Both companies have very capable chips so the results are quite interesting….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 26, 2004 · 0 comments

If you’ve taken a look at AMD’s 64bit Athlon chips recently you’ve more than likely stumbled a bit trying to remember which one supports what. Overclockers Club put up a nice article that compares the different flavors of the CPUs…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 27, 2003 · 0 comments

The Inquirer has glossed over AMD technical documents and brought you their thoughts on the upcoming Dual-core Athlon64/Opteron chips. ETA: Mid/Late 2004…

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