AnandTech does what it’s good at and reviews the AMD Athlon 64 2800+, the least expensive 64-bit general computing processor they currently make. It manages to pump out some middle of the road numbers which isn’t bad considering its price…
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Digitimes brings news of AMD’s plan to launch an Athlon XP 32-bit chip for its socket 754 64-bit platform. This might make for an interesting generation of 32-bit CPUs as the processor will have to contain an on-die memory controller…
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AnandTech has its hands on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard which just so happens to feature the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board is solely for Athlon 64 CPUs which leaves the high end Opteron and FX-5* chips out…
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HardOCP has on their plate a review of the MSI K8N Neo Athlon64 motherboard sporting the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board comes loaded with features like SATA RAID support, Firewire, and Gigabit ethernet with some solid performance to match….
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AMD is shifting its Dresden, Germany chip plant over to production of chips using 90-nm and silicon-on-insulator processes according to EE Times. The first obvious candidate are their Athlon 64 and Opteron line of 64-bit processors which should be able…
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The Tech Report did a little testing with NVIDIA’s latest Athlon 64/Opteron chipset, the nForce3 250Gb once they heard that the chipset was optimized to work better with the company’s line of video chips. Interesting results but it sets something…
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Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS SK8V, a motherboard designed to handle AMD’s current high end 64-bit chips, the Opteron and Athlon FX. It appears to be a high quality board with some very impressive performance numbers and enough…
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PC Perspective has the goods on AMD’s Athlon 4 2800+ which was designed wth the price conscious consumer in mind. It’s not the fastest processor available, obviously, but its price to performance ratio and its support for future 64-bit apps…
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Tom’s Hardware Guide has a bit of information gleened from a PDF file AMD mistakenly placed on its website. The PDF contained details of a new mobile processor, the Athlon 64 2700+, which has much lower power requirements compared to…
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NVIDIA’s first Athlon 64, the nForce3 150, was poorly received due to its lackluster feature set compared to VIA’s offering at the time. They seem to have remedied the situation with the nForce3 250Gb which the Tech Report just happens…
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eMachines is prepping new models of its PCs for the spring quarter according to CNET News. They mostly target the budget conscious with their products but they do have a line of notebooks featuring the AMD Athlon 64 which is…
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