X-bit labs brings a bit of news about AMD’s upcoming Socket 939 Athlon 64 processors. The new chips will have half the cache of the “old” FX line but it does have a faster clock rate and dual channel memory…
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HotHardware has some nice things to say about two motherboards both featuring NVIDIA’s nForce3 250Gb chipset for the AMD 64-bit platform. The EPoX EP-8KDA3+ and MSI K8N Neo Platinum both tout a serious feature set and each would make for…
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AMD has launched a new, low-power, processor designed for the embedded market named the Geode NX. The chip is based on their Athlon core and sips 6watts of power at a 1GHz clock speed. Since the Athlon design is relatively…
IWill plans to launch a dual processor AMD Opteron based small form factor PC by the name of ZMAXdp. Incredibly ambitious endeavor by the folks at IWill but if they can cram two CPUs into a small space without heat…
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AMDZone has a first look at the ASUS A8V, a VIA K8T800 Pro based motherboard designed for AMD’s upcoming Socket 939 processor lines. There are no benchmarks this time around just a few images and specifications to whet the appetite….
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SFF Tech has a look at Shuttle’s upgraded SN85G4V2 mini cube PC which features a few changes that make it a quieter PC overall and easier to put together. The previous version was one of the early AMD Athlon 64…
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The Tech Report has a review of two new chips from AMD, the Opteron 150 and 250. The CPUs both feature a faster 2.4GHz clock rate which is a small step up from their previous Opteron chips with the 150…
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InfoWorld brings some news on AMD’s dual core Opteron processor line which should pop up right around the time Intel will be releasing its own dual core solutions next year. Interesting system choices coming up next year, hopefully both companies…
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Hexus.net has a look at a Time Platina Athlon 64 notebook. The particular model they review is something of a beast with a Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, and a 60GB 7200rpm hard…
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Electronic News writes of IBM’s plans, with Sony’s help, of creating a workstation built around the “Cell” processor which will power Sony’s next generation console the PS3. An interesting development but it doesn’t seem like it will pose much of…
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The Tech Report has a review of the brand-new NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400Gb chipset for the “old” 32-bit AMD Socket A processors. This appears to be the last major chipset release for one of the longer running desktop CPU platforms,…
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