AMD Athlon

by Rafael Hernandez on September 17, 2004 · 0 comments

The Inquirer has reason to believe that AMD has begun shipping a die shrunk version of its Athlon 64 chips. The 90nm version of the chip means more chip per wafer and, eventually, higher clock speeds from their CPU lines…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

ATI is jumping into the fray with their very own PCI Express capable chipsets which will go by the internal names of RX480 and the RS480 which will feature an integrated graphics core. Interesting to see so many PCI-E solutions…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has the details on Shuttle’s SN95G5 small form factor PC. This time around they’ve taken to supporting AMD’s Socket 939 Athlon 64 which offers some adder performance over previous generations. As always a quality product and certainly not the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes of plans by VIA and SiS to begin ramping up production of their respective PCI-Express capable northbridge chips as early as next month or perhaps a little later. The possibility exists that board makers will be able to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a fresh look at the very much alive and kicking AMD Athlon64/Socket 754 segment of the market. The Socket 939 chips brought about many doomsday calls for the older platform but this look at three new motherboards points…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

hardCOREware has tested three versions of the AthlonXP 2500+ AMD has floating out there. Each of the chips has different characteristics that make them more or less favorable to the computer enthusiast. Judging by the insane speeds many are achieving…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 10, 2004 · 0 comments

HotHardware has one of those nifty hardware roundups where they compare and contrast products then benchmark the hell out of them. This time they have a collection of Socket 939 motherboards which accept AMD’s latest, top-end, consumer level Athlon 64s….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 9, 2004 · 0 comments

the Inquirer mixes in a bit of AMD info with some interesting, if distressing news, that AMD is expecting PCI Express capable chipsets for its Athlon 64 platform to show up in the first quarter of 2005. That’s quite a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 6, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net took a look at one of the newer entries to the “old” Socket 754 AMD Athlon 64 market the Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8NS Pro. Normally older platforms slowly fade away but with short supplies of reasonably priced Socket 939…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 31, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has taken a liking to the feature-rich Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard for the Socket 939 variety of AMD Athlon 64s. They pack in a ton of features into the board including a WiFi card all for a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a small tidbit on why it may be harder to find AMD’s Athlon 64 and Sempron processors overseas. It seems the company’s recent price cuts have led to a rise in sales making their more sensibly priced chips…

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