HardOCP has a review of the Abit AV8 AMD Athlon 64 based motherboard sporting the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. The usual plethora of expansion ports and connections are all there as well as the settings packed BIOS that Abit is…
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AMD is pretty proud of itself for shipping out its first batches of 90 nanometer 64-bit CPUs. The first lot are Athlon 64s destined for low power mobile devices and we should soon see some desktop versions hitting shelves. The…
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Bjorn3D continues their coverage of QuakeCon, the largest id Software centric conference and LAN party in existence. The make note of a short chat with the fine people from AMD at the show extolling the benefits of 64-bit processors….
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AnandTech took a look at the high end Voodoo Envy M:860 desktop replacement notebook. The system packs in a huge number of high performance features, such as an Athlon 64, DVD burner, and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, much to…
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X-bit labs has info on AMD’s future multiple core chip plans including some new details about a quad core CPU. The company’s dual core path has been well known, with other companies designing or already having shipped similar chips, but…
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AnandTech has a go, again, at Intel’s new 64-bit Xeon CPU, this time they pit it against AMD’s Opteron 150 server processor, a much more interesting match-up than their previous try at comparing the Xeon’s performance. A very different picture…
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AnandTech has a mini shoot-out between Intel’s recently released Xeon processor, which is capable of running 64-bit code, and AMD’s Athlon 64 3500+. A little strange to run a server chip against a desktop bound CPU, hopefully a more level…
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PCSTATS compares Buffalo Technology’s FireStix PC4000 DDR memory with some of the other high speed choices in the market. The bright orange/red heatspreaders are eye-catching and the memory does perform moderately well on Intel based systems but is somewhat weak…
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AnandTech has tested how well DOOM3’s performance scales on various processors. Interesting results that so far see AMD’s latest and greatest pulling a few frames per second lead over Intel’s top Socket 478 chips. Sadly no LGA 775 and DDR2…
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The Tech Report has put the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ through its paces on a set of benchmarks, both synthetic and real world applications, to test if the CPU can pass muster. Nice results from a processor that won’t break…
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AnandTech put together a round up of motherboards that support AMD’s latest Socket 939 processors. They grabbed the top boards from the well known manufacturers and give you the low-down on each of the board’s features and their performance compared…
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