AMD Athlon

by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD’s recent launch of the Athlon 64 2800+ at the $178(per 1,000 cpus) price point may just drive sales of motherboards that support the chip according to DigiTimes. Lower prices can make system building somewhat cheaper of course so here’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 23, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech picks apart (figuratively) the nForce3 250, NVIDIA’s newest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Impressive features built in this time around, their previous chipset, the nForce3 150, was seriously lacking value compared to VIA’s offerings….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2004 · 0 comments

SimHQ deals with mostly heavily CPU intensive simulation games so who better to test AMD’s top-end consumer CPU the Athlon 64 FX-53. Very impressive scores and a viable alternative to Intel’s beast of a CPU the 3.4GHz Extreme Edition….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2004 · 0 comments

internetnews.com has a bit of news on AMD’s latest processor launches including the Athlon 64 FX-53 which many sites reviewed yesterday and a new entry, the Athlon 2100+ XP-M Mobile, which just may be their most energy efficient processor available….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2004 · 0 comments

The Athlon 64 FX-53 will be the last “consumer” chip made for the good old Socket 940 platform which has served the high performance and server sectors well. With its launch there is, of course, major coverage so here are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2004 · 0 comments

MetkuMods has a review of the Shuttle AN50R Athlon 64 based motherboard. It sports an NVIDIA nForce 3 150 chipset and almost every single peripheral connection available on board including Gigabit LAN which is powered by Intel. I don’t know…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

FastLaneHW throws caution to the wind and their warranties out the window with some serious tweaking done to their motherboard and equally sick cooling in order to push a mobile AMD Athon XP 2400-M to disturbing new heights. Going from…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net was lucky enough to get a motherboard outfitted with NVIDIA’s nForce3 250, their latest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 processor line. It boasts a huge lists of features and matches up quite well with VIA’s chipset offerings so…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review on what will probably be the last major chipset release that will support the AMD Athlon (non 64-bit) platform. The VIA KT880 has a feature set on par with NVIDIA’s Nforce2 chipsets but to find out…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net got busy with the Athlon 64 3000+, AMD’s “bargain” 64-bit processor. They take a look at the retail version of the chip and show you what you can expect out of it when compared to AMD’s other 64-bit offerings…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Daily grabbed four new heatsinks out on the market for the Socket A (AMD Athlon non-64bit) and put them through some rigorous testing. There’s nothing fancy about these ‘sinks but they all seem to do a competent job which…

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