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by Rafael Hernandez on June 20, 2007 · 0 comments

Driver Heaven has a look at a pair of AMD 690G chipset based motherboards. Their latest offering pulls together a nice feature set with a decent integrated graphics core. Good performance from both boards, atlhough their high def playback leaves…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2007 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has a look at the Biostar TA690G MicroATX motherboard. The board features AMD’s 690G chipset which sports a rather potent integrated graphics core perfect for that office PC or light 3D graphics work. A nice board if you like…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 18, 2007 · 0 comments

AMD has released a new set of drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards bringing them up to version 7.4. The drivers sport, supposedly, massive gains in OpenGL based titles under Microsoft’s Windows Vista for Radeon X1000 series cards…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech has some spicey details on ATI/AMD’s upcoming R600 graphics chip. Boards based on it are to be named the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT and sport a supposed 320 stream processors and 512-bit memory interface along side onboard physics…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2007 · 0 comments

HARDSPELL has an AMD R600 based graphics card on their hands and they were very eager to show it off. Plenty of images including the massive OEM cooler and the bare graphics card itself. There are no performance numbers yet…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2007 · 0 comments

HKEPC writes of the AMD Turion mobile chips getting a die shrink soon. The chips have found a fair amount of success in the mobile market and this die shrink should help them lower costs while improving power consumption but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard. The board uses Nvidia’s nForce 650i chipset and combined it with an AMD targeted southbridge to make a hybrid motherboard that sports two full X16 PCIe slots for use…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at some of the server and storage gear they perused on display at this year’s CeBIT. Tons of hardware for those that need some serious number crunching and storage and their look at AMD’s chip plans…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2007 · 0 comments

AMD’s got a bit of a press release going on detailing its new M690 chipset. It’s designed for the mobile notebook crowd where it should shine very well as its integrated graphics core is competent and can handle HDMI output…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 27, 2007 · 0 comments

Hardware Secrets has their own look at the ASUS M2A-VM motherboard. The board it powered by the AMD 690G chipset which features an integrated graphics chip perfect for that office PC or non-power user applications or you can add your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 26, 2007 · 0 comments

VR-Zone has a shot of AMD’s upcoming Radeon X2900 XTX sporting a custom liquid cooling unit. The R600 GPU and affiliated power circuitry pull in quite a bit of power which, at some point, gets pumped out as heat so…

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