AnandTech has an early look at the AMD AM2 socket layout. The new socket will bring DDR2 support for newer AMD CPUs and a new heatsink mounting method which could make older designs very obsolete. It isn’t earth-shattering news but…
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Viper Lair has a review of the Foxconn WinFast 6150K8MA-8EKRS MicroATX motherboard. The focus has been on full sized PCIe capable motherboards for quite a while leaving those with a need for smaller PCs in a bit of a bind….
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AMDZone has a look at the Coolermaster Aquagate Mini R80 liquid-cooling kit. The cooler comes preassembled with all of the tubing attached and coolant filled making it an easy install process for the novice. A great little kit that’s surprisingly…
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Digit-Life has gone crazy and benchmarked 40 modern CPUs in a number of programs. They cover both single and dual-core CPUs from Intel and AMD and even toss in a few Pentium M results. A good list to consider if…
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Madshrimps has tested the retail heatsink AMD tosses in with its Opteron processor line. Normally performance enthusiasts or silence seekers would toss it and drop another $50 on their favorite alternative cooler but, it looks like, the latest cooler is…
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GamePC has a look at the Intel Pentium D 900 Series lineup. The chips feature respectable clock speeds and a die shrink that will make them run a bit cooler as well. A decent set of CPUs but the cost…
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HardwareZone has some thoughts on the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor. The chip is the top of the line in the company’s consumer market coming in with dual cores running at 2.6GHz and 1MB of cache for each core. Perhaps…
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Club Overclocker has a review of the Gigabyte G-Power Lite CPU cooler. The heatsink takes a page out of the Thermalright XP-120 playbook with a mass of heatpipes and aluminum fins. A nice cooler with low “quoted” noise output which…
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AnandTech has a look at the AMD Athlin 64 FX-60 processor. The FX chip-line is the top of the heap for their consumer chips, this particular model rolls in with two cores running at 2.6GHz. An impressive CPU which is…
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X-bit labs has more than you ever wanted to know about the Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard. The board features two PCIe 16X slots for full bandwidth SLI-goodness along with a ton of other high-end features. A very pricey AMD Athlon 64…
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AMDZone has a look at Quake4’s performance with the latest dual core enabled patch. They ran into a few issues with Nvidia’s latest driver set but with some tweaking they got it all working in the end. Vast improvements for…
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