AMD Athlon

by Rafael Hernandez on June 1, 2004 · 0 comments

It seems all of those lovely non-disclosure agreements have expired, simultaneously might I add, and out come a flood of Socket 939 processor reviews. Here are some sites that have reviews of AMD’s new high-end chips consumer chips: AnandTech Beyond3D…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 30, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs brings a bit of news about AMD’s upcoming Socket 939 Athlon 64 processors. The new chips will have half the cache of the “old” FX line but it does have a faster clock rate and dual channel memory…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 27, 2004 · 0 comments

HotHardware has some nice things to say about two motherboards both featuring NVIDIA’s nForce3 250Gb chipset for the AMD 64-bit platform. The EPoX EP-8KDA3+ and MSI K8N Neo Platinum both tout a serious feature set and each would make for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 25, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD has launched a new, low-power, processor designed for the embedded market named the Geode NX. The chip is based on their Athlon core and sips 6watts of power at a 1GHz clock speed. Since the Athlon design is relatively…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2004 · 0 comments

SFF Tech has a look at Shuttle’s upgraded SN85G4V2 mini cube PC which features a few changes that make it a quieter PC overall and easier to put together. The previous version was one of the early AMD Athlon 64…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at a Time Platina Athlon 64 notebook. The particular model they review is something of a beast with a Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, and a 60GB 7200rpm hard…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech takes a gander at the Foxconn 755-A01 AMD Athlon 64 motherboard that sports the SiS 755 chipset. The board keeps up very well with the best that other board makers and chip producers have to offer which is impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 9, 2004 · 0 comments

This past friday AMD snuck in price reductions on a few of its server CPUs according to X-bit labs. The largest drops are seen in the high end Opteron 64-bit processor line but there’s also a small drop on a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of VIA’s latest Athlon 64 chipset, the K8T800 Pro. They appear to have made some minor improvements to the HyperTransport support and PCI/AGP clock locks in preparation for AMD’s Socket 939 CPUs which are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 6, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD has launched a pair of low power Athlon 64 CPUs targeted at the laptop market according to Techweb. The chips can handle both 64-bit and 32-bit code natively, of course, and will do a better job at power usage…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report keeps on rollin’ with a review of VIA’s KT880 chipset, designed for AMD’s Athlon line of 32-bit processors. The chipset itself features a ton of integrated peripherals such as built-in ethernet and SerialATA with RAID support. Overall…

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