X-bit labs brings news of MaxSelect’s, a Russian computer firm, AMD Opteron powered server. The beast of a machine is the first Opteron server that can take up to 8 CPUs. It can also handle a maximum of 64GB of…
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Tom’s Hardware Guide has a bit of information gleened from a PDF file AMD mistakenly placed on its website. The PDF contained details of a new mobile processor, the Athlon 64 2700+, which has much lower power requirements compared to…
Read more New Mobile Athlon 64 Soon?
NVIDIA’s first Athlon 64, the nForce3 150, was poorly received due to its lackluster feature set compared to VIA’s offering at the time. They seem to have remedied the situation with the nForce3 250Gb which the Tech Report just happens…
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ATI is a relatively new player to the desktop chipset world which enables CPUs to communicate with the rest of a PC’s peripherals. X-bit labs brings news of some supposed products ATI has been working on which will embed DirectX…
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EE Times has some news on a research report by a company called In-Stat that compared the features, instruction sets, and the like of Intel’s upcoming 64-bit CPUs with that of AMD’s 64-bit chip line. They found that Intel’s chip…
Read more They're Compatible, Mostly
The Tech Report ran a barrage of tests against three motherboards which are all capable of running dual AMD Opteron 64-bit processors. The two Tyan boards, Thunder K8W and Tiger K8W, come in sporting AMD chipsets while MSI chose to…
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X-bit labs has hit up the rumor mills again, this time they’ve stirred up some info on a possible 8-way AMD Opteron processor based server being launched this week. There’s no mention of what company is launching such a machine…
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eMachines is prepping new models of its PCs for the spring quarter according to CNET News. They mostly target the budget conscious with their products but they do have a line of notebooks featuring the AMD Athlon 64 which is…
Read more eMachine's New Line of PCs
AMD’s recent launch of the Athlon 64 2800+ at the $178(per 1,000 cpus) price point may just drive sales of motherboards that support the chip according to DigiTimes. Lower prices can make system building somewhat cheaper of course so here’s…
Read more Low(er) Cost 64-bit for the Masses
Tadpole Computers is set to release a notebook computer based on AMD’s Opteron processor according to ITworld. The company specializes in high-end notebooks aimed at professionals that need mobile Linux and Solaris OS capable machines. ETA: June 2004…
Read more Opteron Notebook on the Way
Xbit labs has some rumors from a Frech hardware site that believes AMD will take on a naming scheme similar to one Intel is adopting. Intel has changed its naming scheme to denote CPU family and how far up the…
Read more AMD May Match Intel's Naming Scheme
