Laptop Logic has the details on how to put together the MSI-1029 barebones notebook PC and a short review on it. The laptop is an impressive product featuring AMD Turion CPU support and ATI’s X700 Mobility graphics inside a sleek…
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AnandTech has a mini list of some hardware that they’ve seen that should be on its way to store shelves over the coming months. A number of nice motherboards in the work with mention of new memory and a graphics…
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Frosty Tech has a look at the Thermaltake Polo735 AMD Athlon 64 heatsink. The cooler uses a simple slab of copper with equally simple copper fins to cool your CPU, steering clear of fancy heatpipes which add tons of bulk….
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Trusted Reviews puts the Alienware Aurora 5500 through its paces. The system they tested comes fitted with an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU, Nvidia nForce 4 SLI motherboard, and a single GeForce 7800GTX graphics card. No matter the brand the…
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AnandTech has some info on AMD’s upcoming Socket M2 CPUs. The upgrade won’t allow for older 939 chips to be dropped in but they do plan on a top to bottom line-up of CPUs which feature dual channel DDR2 support….
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GamePC has a look at the Tyan Tiger K8WE Dual AMD Opteron motherboard. The board makes use of Nvidia’s nForce4 Pro chipset giving it PCI Express capabilities but it does not support NUMA which would’ve given it a sizable memory…
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The Tech Report ran a number of benchmarks using a few different memory timings in an attempt to see if those fancy low latency memory kits are offering much of a performance boost. AMD’s memory controller is on the CPU…
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The Firing Squad tests out the game F.E.A.R. on AMD and Intel CPUs. The title is bringing PCs to a crawl with its advance graphics but, for the most part, any modern CPU should handle it well, this game demands…
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hardCOREware has a look at the DFI NF4 Infinity motherboard. You won’t find SLI or many fancy features on this product, it’s a simple and inexpensive PCIe capable AMD Athlon 64 based board that happens to include a mound of…
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DigiTimes has the story on AMD’s latest CPU price cuts. The largest cuts come to their mobile Turion chips which see quite a drop in price and welcome cuts to their X2 dual-core chips and Sempron line. The Opteron, FX,…
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The Tech Report has a look at the AMD Opteron 254 CPU. The processor is capable of working in a two CPU configuration but it’s still a single core chip. The lack of a second core may hurt it in…
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