AnandTech has a look at the Sun w2100z workstation which features dual AMD Opteron CPUs. The rig is well engineered and features great hardware throughout making it a no-brainer as a brute of a workstation but the pricetag will knock…
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AnandTech has a look at a somewhat late entry into the AMD Socket 939 motherboard arena, the Epox 9NDA3+. The board’s NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra chipset gives it a ton of onboard features but early BIOS problems give it a black…
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X-bit labs has some info, from AMD, which shows that the latest die-shrunk versions of their CPUs consume less power than their previous versions of the same chips. The “finding” isn’t all that surprising but it does lessen the burden…
Read more Newer AMD Chips Less Power Hungry
The AMD side of the desktop computing world has been missing some key features for future upgradeability and performance scaling, namely the lack of PCI Express. NVIDIA has launched its new nForce 4 chipset for the Athlon 64 line of…
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A potential licensing and pricing nightmare may be over for companies who were waiting on Microsoft’s word on whether or not upcoming dual-core processors, from both AMD and Intel, would count as two seperate CPUs in their licensing terms, which…
Read more MS Says: Two Cores = One Chip
It’s amazing how many reviews simultaneously pop up once companys announce a new product line and it’s no different with AMD’s launch of the Athlon 64 4000+ and FX-55 processors. The two new chips offer up some great performance which…
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CNET News has a hunch that AMD will be releasing some new Athlon 64 chips this week which will the raise performance bar, and pricetags, as well. The Athlon 64 FX-55 and Athlon 64 4000+ will occupy the top two…
Read more New AMD Chips on the Way
Nothing better than a good round-up of products, this time HardwareZone has gathered seven (7) motherboards which feature a few different variants of the NVIDIA nForce3 250 chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Thirty (30) pages of details, benchmarks,…
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InsaneTek has a look at the Thermalright XP-90 Intel Pentium4/AMD Athlon64 heatsink. This little-brother to the XP-120 features a ton of surface area, heatpipes, and an anti-corrosive nickel plating as well as a mounting surface for 92mm fans, all of…
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AnandTech pushes the new 90-nanometer versions of the socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and 3500+ to their limits. The default performance for these chips is impressive but that’s not the only reason they will become popular with the enthusiast…
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DigiTimes has a few more details on the upcoming Abit SU-2S motherboard capable of running two AMD Opteron processors. Its choice of slots were somewhat confounding when it was announced but it all makes sense now since the board will…
Read more Abit Board Designed for Gaming Servers
