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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech does what it’s good at and reviews the AMD Athlon 64 2800+, the least expensive 64-bit general computing processor they currently make. It manages to pump out some middle of the road numbers which isn’t bad considering its price…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Digitimes brings news of AMD’s plan to launch an Athlon XP 32-bit chip for its socket 754 64-bit platform. This might make for an interesting generation of 32-bit CPUs as the processor will have to contain an on-die memory controller…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

AMDReview is all over Lian Li’s latest PC chassis, the V1000. It has a vague resemblance to Apple’s G5 case but the comparisons stop there (ok they won’t) as it sports great cooling potential with its pair of 120mm fans…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has its hands on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard which just so happens to feature the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board is solely for Athlon 64 CPUs which leaves the high end Opteron and FX-5* chips out…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 23, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz believes Dell will begin selling AMD based machines due to market demands according to eWeek. Many companies are embracing AMD’s 64-bit CPUs but it might be wishful thinking on Hector’s part unless Dell’s competitors see huge…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 21, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has on their plate a review of the MSI K8N Neo Athlon64 motherboard sporting the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board comes loaded with features like SATA RAID support, Firewire, and Gigabit ethernet with some solid performance to match….

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World notes that AMD’s Opteron 64-bit processor has turned one years old and while it has been a successful product it still lacks major 64-bit apps outside of the *nix realm. They also take a look at some future…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 19, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD is shifting its Dresden, Germany chip plant over to production of chips using 90-nm and silicon-on-insulator processes according to EE Times. The first obvious candidate are their Athlon 64 and Opteron line of 64-bit processors which should be able…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 19, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report did a little testing with NVIDIA’s latest Athlon 64/Opteron chipset, the nForce3 250Gb once they heard that the chipset was optimized to work better with the company’s line of video chips. Interesting results but it sets something…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS SK8V, a motherboard designed to handle AMD’s current high end 64-bit chips, the Opteron and Athlon FX. It appears to be a high quality board with some very impressive performance numbers and enough…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has the goods on AMD’s Athlon 4 2800+ which was designed wth the price conscious consumer in mind. It’s not the fastest processor available, obviously, but its price to performance ratio and its support for future 64-bit apps…

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