by Rafael Hernandez on August 11, 2006
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AMDZone has a review of the Asus EN7600GT Silent graphics card. The board features a rather large passive heatsink that can be swiveled around into some choice airflow currents. It seems to work pretty well and anything that gets rid…
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by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2006
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Virtual Hideout has a look at the SAPPHIRE PURE CrossFire Advantage motherboard. The board supports AMD’s Socket 939 CPUs as well as ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology. It seems like quite the enthusiast’s choice although VH didn’t have much luck with…
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by Rafael Hernandez on August 8, 2006
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The Tech Report has Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU up against the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ of the energy efficient variety. Things stay close at stock speeds between the two chips but once the usual enthusiast touch is…
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by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2006
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DigiTimes has some details on Nvidia’s MCP61S northbridge chip for the AMD AM2 CPUs. The chip contains the various southbridge functions as well as integrated graphics whcih should make for some cheaper motherboards and slightly slimmer designs….
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 31, 2006
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TweakTown has a look at the AMD AM2 platform with its fancy DDR2 memory controller and benchmarks it against the older 939 DDR arrangement. In the usual day-to-day office and media work there isn’t much of a difference but when…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2006
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The Tech Report has a look at the Shuttle XPC SN27P2 SFF barebones. The AMD AM2 supporting system follows the usual Shuttle formula of cramming as much as they can into as small a space as possible. A nice looking…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 24, 2006
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AMD has all of the details on its merger with ATI Technologies. The two companies bring to the table some interesting possibilities for future hardware but, for the time being, they’ll just have to settle for a selection of solid…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 19, 2006
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HotHardware has a review of the Systemax Wildcat AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 SLI Gaming PC. The system is jam-packed with all sorts of high-end gear including two Nvidia GeForce 7900GTX graphics cards and an Ageia PhysX board. Impressive amount of…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 18, 2006
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Lost Circuits has a look at the awkwardly named Foxconn C51XEM2AA motherboard. It’s put together with the latest Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset with support for AMD’s AM2 processors. It’s targeted at the performance crowd and with the numbers it’s…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 17, 2006
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The Tech Report has a look at a pair of motherboards based around the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset. The AMD AM2 socket boards from Asus and Foxconn take different approaches in their feature sets making one a bit more…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 13, 2006
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TechSpot turns the screws on a defenseless AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (AM2) CPU and pushes it to new extremes. They managed a relatively impressive 50% overclock over its stock settings which isn’t bad for a “budget” processor. A quick peek…
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