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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech got a chance to spend some quality time with AOpen’s, Athlon 64 powered, AK86-L motherboard. It features a BIOS that would make any PC tweaker drool as well as sensible features such as Serial-ATA and Gigabit LAN….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

LinuxHardware.org put top Intel CPUs and a single high end AMD CPU through the wringer and came up with some performance figures under a Linux operating system. It would have been interesting to see how the Athlon 64 FX-51 (dual…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2004 · 0 comments

While it had been rumored for months that Intel has been working on chips that include the x86-64 64-bit instruction set, which AMD uses on its Athlon64 line, they’ve only now hinted about it. ITworld.com has more details….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 29, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC, which is both a PC hardware retailer and an indepth review site, has tested AMD and Intel based rigs using software other than games. Shocking! Take a look at the performance of these higher end PCs on some server…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Digit Life has taken the latest and greatest CPUs from both Intel and AMD and ran them through a barrage of tests carefully noting results for your perusal. Both companies have very capable chips so the results are quite interesting….

Read more Top Processor Comparison

by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News is reporting on HP’s plans to launch a line of ProLiant servers with AMD’s 64bit server CPU, the Opteron. What this means for Intel’s Itanium, which HP helped design, is anybody’s guess….

Read more HP to Ship Opteron Servers

by Rafael Hernandez on January 26, 2004 · 0 comments

If you’ve taken a look at AMD’s 64bit Athlon chips recently you’ve more than likely stumbled a bit trying to remember which one supports what. Overclockers Club put up a nice article that compares the different flavors of the CPUs…

Read more AMD64 Comparison Charts

by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Overclockers Club has written up a review on Aerocool’s monstrous Deep Impact 102 heatsink. It features support for AMD’s Socket A and Intel’s Socket 370/478 (pentium3/4) as well as dual fans, giving it a cooling edge over other all copper…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 22, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA’s next DX9 compatible graphics core for onboard video is too complex to cram into a single chip along with other core functions for its upcoming AMD64 chipset so they’ve had to split it off into a two chip solution….

Read more Back to Two Chips

by Rafael Hernandez on January 22, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a great article covering Intel’s upcoming CPU codenamed “Prescott” and speculates on what the chipmaker changed and also explains AMD’s processor naming scheme in relation to Intel’s clock speeds….

Read more Reworked Prescott Built for Speed

by Rafael Hernandez on January 21, 2004 · 0 comments

AMDZone has a few notes from AMD’s conference call yesterday which features some interesting tidbits in the Q&A section concerning future products and their move to newer manufacturing processes….

Read more AMD's Plans