AMD’s got another high end consumer chip on its hands and all of the regulars have an early look at the chip. The Athlon 64 FX-57 clocks in at 2.8GHz and features 1MB of cache, quite a bit more than…
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AnandTech has some fun with AMD’s dual core Athlon 64 4200+ processor. The CPU offers good performance in multi-threaded applications and in general multitasking so the gang decided to push the chip, using simple air cooling, with great results….
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PCSTATS has a look at MSI’s entry-level Neo3-F motherboard. The board is for the classic S754 Athlon64/Sempron processors bringing the platform PCI Express support via Nvidia’s nForce4 chipset. It’s not for performance seeking junkies but it looks like a solid…
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AnandTech wades into another set of tests this time pitting Intel’s Xeon and AMD’s Opteron processors against each other on a number of database applications running under Linux. Dual CPU vs Single CPU, 32-bit vs 64-bit, Hyperthreading vs no-Hyperthreading, it’s…
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AMDZone has tested EA’s upcoming modern combat game, Battlefield 2, on a number of today’s graphics cards. Their method isn’t the best, limited to a third person perspective on playback, but it could be an indicator of what boards will…
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HardOCP tortures Shuttle’s tiny ST20G5 barebones computer. The SFF is one of the first to use ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset for AMD’s Athlon 64 bringing integrated graphics to the PC. A sleek design but the issues they ran into…
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AnandTech has some interesting observations and information covering system chipsets and other assorted hardware. According to the motherboard manufacturers they talked to AMD based boards are a larger portion of their retail production, interesting news but a large chunk of…
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Legion Hardware has a bit of fun with one of AMD’s Athlon 64 3200+. The Venice-cored version of the chip uses some refined manufacturing techniques to get a bit more performance at a lower voltage which seems to translate an…
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Viper Lair has a short test of the Mushkin 2GB HP3200 dual channel DDR memory kit. Two GigaBytes of system memory may seem like overkill but many applications and some upcoming gaming titles will gobble up every last bit of…
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GamePC has a mighty heap of computing power in their look at an AMD Opteron Dual Core/Dual CPU system. The machine has a total of 4 seperate cores working away at its data crunching providing some remarkable results in applications…
AnandTech pits Apple’s G5 processor and OSX operating system against workstation CPUs from Intel and AMD running various forms of Linux and a test with XP. All is not equal in this roundup as a number of compiler optimizations run…
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