HotHardware has a look at new chips that Intel has added to it Pentium 4 processor line. The new CPUs bring in some refinements that are meant to speed up the chips and cut down on heat production as well…
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SFFTech has a review of the Iwill ZMAXdp small form factor barebones PC. The standout feature of this box is its dual AMD Opteron processor capable motherboard crammed into a miniature case. What’s most impressive is that they were able…
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Legion Hardware has tested the Swiftech H20-120 watercooling kit. The setup includes everything needed to get started with cooling an Intel Pentium 4 (s478) and AMD Athlon 64 processors. A great package which is capable of shaming one of the…
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PCSTATS has a look at the AOpen n250a-FR motherboard for AMD’s older socket 754 Athlon 64s and Semprons. The board makes good use of the Nvidia nForce3-250 chipset and performs well compared to the socket 939 based chips/motherboards. An inexpensive…
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AnandTech has a closer look at the addition of SSE3 to the AMD Opteron CPU line. The new revision of the chip should trickle down to consumer processors sooner or later with other enhancements enthusiasts have been drooling over for…
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AMD has demonstrated its dual-core Opteron processors at Linuxworld Boston. The chips were shown off in various configurations ranging from a supercomputer on down to a dual CPU workstation. Dual-core Opterons should be showing up in the middle of this…
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AnandTech grabbed a handful of small form factor barebones PCs and tested them against each other. Intel and AMD are represented, although, all of the test systems use older chip lines from both companies keeping things on equal footing. They…
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AnandTech has tested updated versions of Intel’s Xeon and AMD’s Opteron processors in a series of database tests. A surprising turnaround for the Xeon line in this set of tests, the last test setup the AnandTech gang tried out had…
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Hexus.net has a look at a motherboard from a little-known company, the EQS A58XK9-ALF. The board supports AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs and uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200P chipset combo. Impressive numbers keep it competitive with Nvidia’s time-tested nForce3 250Gb…
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CNET News has the scoop on HP’s impending release of new servers using AMD’s Opteron CPUs. The servers will boast an updated Opteron chip which features a faster clock speed, faster Hypertransport link, and SSE3 extensions. It sounds like a…
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GamePC takes another look at the Intel Pentium M CPU in a desktop role and pits it against the AMD Athlon 64 90nm chips. A very competitive showing by the little mobile chip once again although pricing on the top…
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