The Tech Report is sporting a bit of info on upcoming changes to AMD’s Athlon 64 processor line. The chip is set to receive upgrades such as a DDR400 capable memory controller and the SSE3 instruction set which will speed…
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The Tech Report has caught onto the latest PC enthusiast miracle CPU, a mobile variant of AMD’s Athlon XP. This mobile version is able to hit the same clock speeds at a lower voltage than its desktop counterparts which allows…
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Yahoo News is running a short review of the EMachines M6807 laptop which is powered by an Athlon 64 chip. The article is sadly short on the specs but for the price it packs some killer features like an ATI…
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Bjorn3D ran the “mid-range” AMD Athlon 64 3400+ up against the higher end Athlon 64 FX-51 and has a nice simple article which compares the performance of both processors. Surprising results on the real world tests….
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Sharky Extreme compares two motherboards featuring the current high end chipsets from the top two AMD Athlon chipset makers. The AOpen AK77-600 Max using the VIA KT600 chipset and sporting Gigabit LAN support on one side and the MSI K7N…
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MetkuMods has the low-down on one of the most feature packed motherboards I’ve seen. The Albatron K8X800 Pro II, for Athlon 64 processors, sports Firewire, onboard LAN, and the highly capable VIA Envy 24PT sound chip as well as a…
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Bjorn3D has reviewed AMD’s top processor, the Athlon 64 FX-51. What sets the FX-51 apart from the other 64-bit chips AMD makes is its support for dual channel memory offering it a bit more kick at, unfortunately, a way larger…
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HotHardware has reviewed what may be one of the last big hoorah’s for motherboards in the plain old AMD Athlon 32-bit supporting arena. The Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Wireless Edition sports gigabit ethernet support, Serial ATA with RAID, and a special…
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bit-tech slapped a pair of AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 3400+ into some motherboards and ran them through a nicely mixed set of benchmarks. They also throw in comparative numbers to some other mid-range to high end CPUs also from…
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Microsoft released a trial version of their Windows XP 64-bit version for consumers that own compatible processors, which at the moment is only AMD’s Athlon 64 and Opteron. One interesting tidbit is Microsoft’s inclusion of Windows on Windows 64, or…
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AnandTech got a chance to spend some quality time with AOpen’s, Athlon 64 powered, AK86-L motherboard. It features a BIOS that would make any PC tweaker drool as well as sensible features such as Serial-ATA and Gigabit LAN….
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