AMDZone has a look at a Hitachi Travelstar 60GB hard drive. The drive has a 7200RPM spin speed as well as an 8MB cache which makes it faster than the ordinary drives shipped in most laptops today. A sensible upgrade…
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Driver Heaven has a look at the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs. PCI Express has been a popular feature touted by board makers with new nForce 4 based products to hawk but this…
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Ars Technica takes a look under the hood of AMD’s 64-bit capable CPUs. The Opteron and Athlon 64 lines have been a popular chip line because of its performance, 64-bit potential, and scaling. Ars goes about explaining how the chip…
CNET News has some coverage on AMD’s plans for its Geode line of x86 CPUs suitable for embedded applications. The chips feature low power consumption and good performance which can bring added benefits and features to products such as portable…
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AMD and Intel have raised their respective market shares by a few tenths of a percent in the fourth quarter of last year according to Mercury Research. The gains are from the market shares of VIA and Transmeta who have…
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Legion Hardware has a comparison between the AMD Sempron 3100+ processor and the Athlon 64 3200+ CPU. The Sempron comes in at half the cache of an Athlon 64, which cripples it quite a bit, and no 64-bit support. As…
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DigiTimes writes of ASRock’s, Asus’ cost concious arm, plan to manufacture a few lines of graphics cards later this year. They will, no doubt, create a number of low-end to mid-range cards which will be using both AMD and Nvidia…
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X-bit labs has written up a piece on AMD’s planned new socket named M2. The socket is set to launch next year which will bring along with it dual-channel DDR2 memory support and CPUs that support virtualization among other features….
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GamePC has a high-end piece of hardware on the testbench today in the form of an Asus K8N-DL nForce4 Pro 2200 motherboard. The board can handle a pair of AMD Opteron processors and uses Nvidia’s latest workstation chipset. Some early…
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AnandTech ran various tests using Valve Software’s popular Half-Life 2 video game on a variety of CPUs from both Intel and AMD. Quite a few chips were tested measuring frame rates and how well CPUs scaled across various graphics cards….
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The Inquirer thinks that Microsoft’s Windows XP 64-bit Edition will be hitting store shelves in April. It would be big news for AMD which has been touting its 64-bit chips for quite a while and it should also make Intel’s…
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