Ace’s Hardware has a great article on Intel’s move to mass market 64-bit processors. Considering the company’s derision of AMD for their move to 64-bit, whose technology they had to use, I’d imagine there’s quite a bit of crow eating…
Read more Intel 64-bit Musings
AMD is getting ready to launch new, low power, versions of its 64-bit Opteron processors. The HE (55 watt) and EE (30 watt) flavors are geared toward huge clusters and blade servers. Lower power usage means less heat so you…
Read more AMD Announces Low Power Opterons
The Unreal Tournament 2004 demo was launched last week to some high praise from gamers and it just so happens they’ve released a 64-bit version of it for 64-bit AMD processors running 64-bit versions of the Linux OS. Yeah that’s…
Read more 64-bit Linux UT2K4 Demo
Coming about two weeks after Intel dropped prices on its processor lines, AMD has slashed a bit off the top on its wide range of chips. Several retailers are already showing updated pricing so now is a great time to…
Read more AMD Drops Prices
Yahoo News has a bit on both AMD and Intel’s plans for the near future in the CPU realm. With Intel close to announcing their plans to use the x86-64 architecture on upcoming processors there will be a nice battle…
Read more AMD and Intel to Spar on Even Ground
MetkuMods has the low-down on one of the most feature packed motherboards I’ve seen. The Albatron K8X800 Pro II, for Athlon 64 processors, sports Firewire, onboard LAN, and the highly capable VIA Envy 24PT sound chip as well as a…
Read more Albatron K8X800 Pro II Reviewed
X-bit labs is covering NVIDIA’s upcoming dual processor capable chipset for AMD’s Opteron processor, the nForce3 Pro 250. IWILL seems to be the only one with public plans for the chipset so far but it’s bound to pick up more…
Read more NVIDIA Prepping New Opteron Chipset
Bjorn3D has reviewed AMD’s top processor, the Athlon 64 FX-51. What sets the FX-51 apart from the other 64-bit chips AMD makes is its support for dual channel memory offering it a bit more kick at, unfortunately, a way larger…
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HotHardware has reviewed what may be one of the last big hoorah’s for motherboards in the plain old AMD Athlon 32-bit supporting arena. The Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Wireless Edition sports gigabit ethernet support, Serial ATA with RAID, and a special…
Read more WiFi Ready Motherboard Review
bit-tech slapped a pair of AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 3400+ into some motherboards and ran them through a nicely mixed set of benchmarks. They also throw in comparative numbers to some other mid-range to high end CPUs also from…
Read more Athlon 64 3200+ and 3400+ Reviewed
Microsoft released a trial version of their Windows XP 64-bit version for consumers that own compatible processors, which at the moment is only AMD’s Athlon 64 and Opteron. One interesting tidbit is Microsoft’s inclusion of Windows on Windows 64, or…
Read more XP 64-bit Features WOW64
