Hexus.net got busy with the Athlon 64 3000+, AMD’s “bargain” 64-bit processor. They take a look at the retail version of the chip and show you what you can expect out of it when compared to AMD’s other 64-bit offerings…
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Digital Daily grabbed four new heatsinks out on the market for the Socket A (AMD Athlon non-64bit) and put them through some rigorous testing. There’s nothing fancy about these ‘sinks but they all seem to do a competent job which…
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GamePC slapped together some components and built two somewhat affordable “servers” to compare. The servers feature competing processors: AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s Pentium 4 3GHz which they put through a series of tests. If you need to do some hosting…
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AnandTech has a comparative analysis between the new Intel Xeon 3GHz 4MB cache beast and the AMD Opteron 2.2GHz with 1MB of cache. They put them through a set of rough server tests and get some interesting results from these…
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The Tech Report is sporting a bit of info on upcoming changes to AMD’s Athlon 64 processor line. The chip is set to receive upgrades such as a DDR400 capable memory controller and the SSE3 instruction set which will speed…
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The Tech Report has caught onto the latest PC enthusiast miracle CPU, a mobile variant of AMD’s Athlon XP. This mobile version is able to hit the same clock speeds at a lower voltage than its desktop counterparts which allows…
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Yahoo News is running a short review of the EMachines M6807 laptop which is powered by an Athlon 64 chip. The article is sadly short on the specs but for the price it packs some killer features like an ATI…
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HP will announce a new server line today that will feature the AMD Opteron processor according to Computerworld. Quite a gutsy move coming from the company that co-designed the Itanium with Intel but who can blame them, the Opteron has…
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Bjorn3D ran the “mid-range” AMD Athlon 64 3400+ up against the higher end Athlon 64 FX-51 and has a nice simple article which compares the performance of both processors. Surprising results on the real world tests….
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New Scientist is covering Intel and AMD’s plan to include technology in upcoming chips that will prevent today’s prevalent security problem, programs causing buffer overflows. It’s sure to make certain operating system makers giddy with delight….
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Sharky Extreme compares two motherboards featuring the current high end chipsets from the top two AMD Athlon chipset makers. The AOpen AK77-600 Max using the VIA KT600 chipset and sporting Gigabit LAN support on one side and the MSI K7N…
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