AMD Athlon

by Rafael Hernandez on October 7, 2004 · 0 comments

Sudhian Media measures the heat output of the new 90 nanometer, die shrunk AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64s on the market. In general these early die shrinkings turn out to be a nightmare for cooling as you have less surface…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2004 · 0 comments

AMDZone takes a gander at the low-cost Chaintech SK8T800 motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64. The company keeps the numbers of features they toss on to the socket 754 board to a minimum but it still provides great performance and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 4, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report tested out the newest, die shrunk, version of the AMD Athlon 64 running on a socket 939 system. The 90 nanometer chip offers the same performance as the 130nm version but consumes quite a bit less juice….

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 1, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech knows a thing or two about the inner workings of those so called computers and has tested a batch of memory with AMD’s Athlon 64. They do mention some of the finer points when it comes to memory on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 30, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a few details on PCI-E based chipsets that four different manufacturers are working to release over the coming months. There will be plenty of choices available but so many chipsets at once will be confusing. Hopefully they’ll each…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2004 · 0 comments

AMDZone has a look at the new AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 CPU produced with the company’s 90nm process. Besides the shrink in the core size this is the first low price Socket 939 chip on the market, capable…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at yet another CPU heatsink from Thermalright that goes by the name of XP-90. The cooler is designed for the AMD Athlon 64 and the Intel Socket 478 line of chips and features multiple heatpipes…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 25, 2004 · 0 comments

CDRinfO has a look at a CPU today (odd) from the fine people at AMD. The Athlon 64 3800+ comes in at the higher price range for Socket 939 processors and doesn’t disappoint when it comes to performance and bang…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD’s Athlon 64 processors have gone without a PCI Express capable system chipset for a few months while Intel has grabbed all of the attention, that is until now. VIA has announced its K8T890 chipset which supports the new interface…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 23, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC tests out AMD’s latest processor for large desktop replacement “pseudo notebooks”. The Athlon64 3700+ DTR shares the same core with its desktop counterpart so it features similar performance characteristics which make it blazingly fast even in a small form…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has word that AMD expects to ship 600,000 Athlon 64s and Opterons this quarter and may top 1.5million in the next quarter. That’s quite a quick ramp up for the 64-bit chips which will, hopefully, bring down prices for…

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