ATI has begun shipping system chipsets for the AMD Athlon 64 platform ahead of its rivals in a whole new arena. The new PCI-E based chipsets will come in two different flavors, with integrated graphics or without, and appears it…
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Sudhian Media measures the heat output of the new 90 nanometer, die shrunk AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64s on the market. In general these early die shrinkings turn out to be a nightmare for cooling as you have less surface…
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ZDNet has some info on a new chip design by ClearSpeed which crams 96 individual processing cores into a single package. The Avebury isn’t a general purpose CPU like the ones AMD and Intel are famous for and, considering its…
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AMDZone takes a gander at the low-cost Chaintech SK8T800 motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64. The company keeps the numbers of features they toss on to the socket 754 board to a minimum but it still provides great performance and…
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ExtremeTech has some details from the Fall Processor Forum, going on this week, concerning AMDs plans for its dual core chip design of the Opteron CPU. Some hints on clock speeds and estimated performance gains in the server world as…
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The Tech Report tested out the newest, die shrunk, version of the AMD Athlon 64 running on a socket 939 system. The 90 nanometer chip offers the same performance as the 130nm version but consumes quite a bit less juice….
AMDboard has the scoop on a dual processor, AMD Opteron motherboard which Abit is working on. The board is obviously destined for server work, what with its lack of an AGP or PCI-Express slot and the like, but it does…
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X-bit labs tests out both Intel and AMD’s latest line of low-cost processors aimed at the value market. The Intel Celeron D and AMD Sempron CPUs try to balance price and performance and pull it off pretty well sporting some…
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AnandTech knows a thing or two about the inner workings of those so called computers and has tested a batch of memory with AMD’s Athlon 64. They do mention some of the finer points when it comes to memory on…
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DigiTimes has a few details on PCI-E based chipsets that four different manufacturers are working to release over the coming months. There will be plenty of choices available but so many chipsets at once will be confusing. Hopefully they’ll each…
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SFFTech does enjoy a nice new small form factor PC to toy around with, this time they get a shot at Shuttle’s SN95G5 XPC. The barebones setup can handle AMD’s Socket 939 line of CPUs and sports the NVIDIA nForce3…
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