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by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2005 · 0 comments

CNET News has the details on AMD’s plans to ship dual-core CPUs this month. The Opteron chips will be targeted at servers and workstation markets which can demand higher price tags. Later this year the company will also launch dual-core…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDGamer has a look at the Thermaltake Shark PC case. The aluminum chassis does its work with a pair of 120mm fans keeping your components cool and it includes plenty of air intake openings, for its rear fan at least,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard. The board supports AMD’s Athlon 64 CPUs and makes fine use of the Nvidia nForce4 Ultra chipset. Gone from the board are the old parallel and serial legacy ports, in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 6, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs got their hands on a pair of AMD processors featuring a newer core revision. The “E3” core CPUs feature SSE3 support and other enhancements which can improve performance. AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Venice core) AMD Sempron 3100+ (Palermo…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 6, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a review of the Shuttle SN25P barebones PC. The small form factor kit crams Nvidia’s nForce4 chipset and AMD Athlon 64 support into one of those sleek little cases they love to create. A good choice if you’re…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 4, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDGamer has their thoughts on the Sony PSP portable gaming system. The console brings advanced graphics and audio to gamers on the go although it has had a particularly bumpy launch. The PSP does have a lot going for it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 1, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has complete its testing of five motherboards based on VIA’s K8T800 Pro chipset. The chipset is designed for AMD’s Athlon 64 processor line and implements older forms of expansions slots such as AGP and plain-old PCI. A good batch…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2005 · 0 comments

neoseeker has an in-depth look at the various settings one can change on an AMD Athlon 64 platform and how it affects performance. Each setting, by itself, has little to do performance wise but by mixing and matching enthusiasts have…

Read more Athlon 64 Overclocking Techniques

by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9 motherboard. The product uses VIA’s K8T890 chipset which is another solution that brings PCI Express support to the AMD Athlon 64 platform. It isn’t much of an enthusiast board but,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 24, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a comparison of the AMD Opteron 252 CPU and Intel’s Xeon 3.6GHz chip. The workstation/server market has seen a number of high powered CPUs come their way offering increased speeds and feature sets capable of handling more complex…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 23, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at what 64-bit computing can do in theory and have some results from the “real world”. AMD Athlon 64 and Intel EM64T enabled chips are tested under Windows XP Pro and its 64-bit version….

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