AnandTech has done a bit of performance enhancing on AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU. They managed to push the 2GHz dual core CPU to a peppy 2.6GHz which, not surprisingly, also improved application performance. A not so interesting set…
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Frosty Tech has a review of the EKL V8 heatsink/fan cooler. The heatsink can handle most modern Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon 64 CPUs and has a very distinctive design with a huge mass of aluminum getting airflow from…
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AnandTech has a look at Intel’s dual core Xeons in a few tests against AMD’s Opteron. The Opteron has been the faster chip for quite some time now making a mockery out of Intel’s workstation/server solution but their latest batch…
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AnandTech has a look at the ULi M1697 northbridge. The chipset is a single chip solution for AMD’s Athlon 64, which was the norm, but it doesn’t feature as many PCIe lanes as the two chip Nvidia solution. A good…
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HardOCP has a look at the Foxconn NF4SK8AA SLI capable motherboard. The board’s Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset has quite the following in the AMD crowd and while Foxconn isn’t a performance oriented company they’ve been making computer components for…
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HardOCP has a look at the PC Club Enpower Nitro Extreme computer. The system is pre-built offering up an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of RAM, and Nvidia GeForce 6600 SLI graphics setup. It looks like a solid system for…
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Frosty Tech has a review of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro Athlon 64 heatsink. The cooler mates an interesting fan onto an even more interesting heatsink and it all manages to provide good cooling results without the ear splitting…
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The Tech Report has a look at the DFI LANParty UT RDX200 CD-DR motherboard. DFI has been making a name for itself by creating a potent mix of hardware features and BIOS options which enthusiasts crave. This ATI CrossFire capable…
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Dell might be working on some AMD based products according to DigiTimes. The PC maker allegedly asked its suppliers to work on PCs based on AMD chips. There isn’t much more info to go on but, if it’s true, it’ll…
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AnandTech spent a little time with a motherboard powered by ATI’s RD580 chipset. The AMD based chip offers two 16X SLI slots for dedicated graphics communication, a nice boost for their CrossFire platform. They don’t offer up hard benchmark numbers…
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EETimes has the details on AMD’s planned move to quad-core processors in 2007. The first CPUs to see the added cores are no doubt going to be their Opteron line which would see great speed benefits from added cores. It…
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