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by Rafael Hernandez on November 7, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware does their thing with the ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 based ASUS M2R32-MVP and ECS KA3 MVP motherboards. The boards support AMD’s AM2 processors and that fancy CrossFire graphics setup and while they both are similar performance wise one runs…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 3, 2006 · 0 comments

Digit-Life has a look at the video decoding performance and quality from ATI and Nvidia. High-def content being all the rage these days it’s a good idea to check out a card’s playback performance as well as its 3D prowess….

Read more ATI/AMD and Nvidia Video Decoding Compared

by Rafael Hernandez on November 1, 2006 · 0 comments

Dell has expanded its AMD CPU usage with its new line of Inspiron 1501 notebook computers. The new notebooks feature choices of Sempron, Turion 64, and X2 Turions although they are limited to ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory integrated…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 31, 2006 · 0 comments

AMD/ATI has released its Catalyst 6.10 driver set for its Radeon line of graphics cards. The new drivers tout bug fixes in a number of games and performance enhancements for those lucky enough to be running CrossFire on Intel P965…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 30, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the AMD ATI Radeon X1650XT graphics card. The board houses a brand new GPU which targets the low-end of the market. It may have a “cheap” price tag but its feature set and speed…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 25, 2006 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a short write-up on AMD/ATI’s move toward a combo CPU/GPU processing chip. It’s an expected move but nobody, outside of the two companies, knows what it will lead to yet though with the boundless imaginations everyone has both…

Read more On the Fusion of CPU and GPU

by Rafael Hernandez on October 24, 2006 · 0 comments

neoseeker has a look at the Sapphire Pure CrossFire 3200 motherboard. Sapphire is best known for their ATI based graphics cards so a motherboard using ATI’s latest AMD AM2 capable chipset the RD580. It’s an impressive enough performer with a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2006 · 0 comments

Hot Hardware has a bit more information on AMD’s 4×4 computing platform. The initial launch will be focused on a dual socket motherboard with two dual core CPUs which can later be upgraded to their K8L chip allowing for two…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Alienware Aurora m9700 “notebook” PC. The system mates an AMD Turion CPU with SLI Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS graphics and RAID 0 hard drives. A monster of a system that will handle most…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2006 · 0 comments

arstechnica has the details on AMD’s quad-core K8L CPU. The chip is expected some time next year and is expected to improve on performance over their current core designs while adding another pair of computing units. All sorts of exciting…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2006 · 0 comments

HKEPC has the details on AMD’s plans for making that system upgrade a little less annoying. They plan to include a unified register code which will allow your brand new 65nm chip to boot up even if the motherboard doesn’t…

Read more AMD Plans SafeBoot