Hexus.net has a review of a 90 nanometer version of the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor in the Socket939 variety. The chip has become a favorite of those obsessed with performance on the cheap who have pulled quite a bit…
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CNET News has the details on AMD’s plan to bring its PowerNow technology to its server/workstation focused Opteron CPUs. PowerNow allows the host OS to scale down CPU clock speeds when very little CPU usage is occuring then speeds things…
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Phoronix has the skinny on the ASRock K8 Combo Z motherboard which has both socket754 and 939 interfaces for AMD’s Athlon 64 lines. This is not some form of dual CPU board, rather, it gives you some options on which…
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AnandTech has a look at the performance of a pair of Intel Xeon Dual CPU servers as well as four dual AMD Opteron setups and a quad Opteron CPU rig for fun. Tests were run in both 32-bit mode and…
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DigiTimes has the details on a push by ATI and its partners, in Taiwan, for its new Radeon Xpress 200 system chipset. The larger board builders will be bundling in a copy of Microsoft’s Windows XP with their products, perhaps…
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The Tech Report tested out all forms of SLI setups using NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and 6800 video cards strapped to an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard designed for the AMD Athlon 64/FX. It’s really, really fast, as is to be expected, but…
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t-break has a review of the upcoming MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard based on the NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 939) CPU. PCI-Express and SerialATA2 support are some of the bigger draws for the new…
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Phoronix has a review of the Spire VertiCool SPA49B0 heatsink designed for the good old AMD Athlon XP line. As is becoming popular this cooler uses a pair of heatpipes attached to a number of fins as well as some…
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AMDZone has a look at the EPoX 9NDA3+ AMD Athlon 64 (socket 939) based motherboard. This board houses the very versatile NVIDIA nForce 3 Ultra chipset which has received quite a bit of praise since its launch. Loads of features…
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The fine folks over at HotHardware have come up with a review of the Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PCI Express based video card. The card puts up impressive numbers, as expected, in a variety of gaming titles and bundles in…
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GamePC has a look at AMD’s Athlon 64 4000+ processor, one of the current top of the line chips the company offers. The CPU apparently runs a tight race matching the Athlon 64 FX-53 in many tasks with a price-tag…
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