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by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Asus M2N32-SLI motherboard. It’s based around the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset for AMD AM2 CPUs. SLI is available and it includes some other nifty features such as silent chipset cooling and plenty…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 4, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Albatron KI51PV-754 mini-ITX motherboard. The mini-ITX market is dominated by VIA and its processors which aren’t great performers, this board on the other hand allows for AMD Turion 64 processors which are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 4, 2006 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look inside one of the early Dell PCs sporting AMD processors. The system takes an odd BTX approach, which people were doubting would ever happen, with its own proprietary motherboard. There isn’t much more exciting in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 3, 2006 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes on AMD’s plans to move 90% of its desktop chip production to 65nm process by the end of next year. They also have goals of 45nm by 2008, which should improve the number of chips per wafer leading…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2006 · 0 comments

Boot Daily has a roundup of eight AMD AM2 based motherboards. It’s a fair mix of ATI CrossFire chipsets and Nvidia nForce being represented here with all manner of on-board features. A bit light on the enthusiast details but a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2006 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has the info on AMD’s CPU plans for its 4×4 consumer platform. The concept is based on dual-CPU/dual-core system and, perhaps, even multi-GPU support. The new FX chips will be using the socket 1207 which the new Opteron line…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 18, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a few more details on AMD’s future K8L core and other topics of interest. The core has many changes and tweaks under the hood that’ll make it one mean quad core CPU once it is released and it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2006 · 0 comments

Dell has started shipping a few new computer lines two of which offer AMD CPUs as an option. It’s been a long time coming although the timing doesn’t seem all that great with Intel the current performance king but it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the MSI K9A Platinum motherboard. It features ATI’s Radeon Express 3200 Crossfire chipset which, of course, supports the company’s multi-GPU technology. A good choice for your AMD AM2 CPU with plenty of enthusiast features to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 8, 2006 · 0 comments

the Inquirer seems to believe that AMD’s 65 nanometer CPUs will be shipping in a month’s time. The smaller die size will allow the company to get many more chips from a wafer which should lower costs and the chips…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 30, 2006 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has an early look at the ATI Sturgeon CrossFire Xpress 3200 Reference Board. It accepts AMD’s AM2 processors and, obviously, supports ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology. It looks like a solid northbridge and southbridge combo compared to their earlier offerings….

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