DigiTimes has a small tidbit on why it may be harder to find AMD’s Athlon 64 and Sempron processors overseas. It seems the company’s recent price cuts have led to a rise in sales making their more sensibly priced chips…
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BleedinEdge has a review of the budget priced Chaintech VNF3-250 motherboard which can be host to a Socket 754 Athlon 64 processor. The board is lacking, somewhat, feature wise, but for the price, it’s pretty tough to beat the board’s…
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HardOCP has a review of the Abit AV8 AMD Athlon 64 based motherboard sporting the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. The usual plethora of expansion ports and connections are all there as well as the settings packed BIOS that Abit is…
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AMD is pretty proud of itself for shipping out its first batches of 90 nanometer 64-bit CPUs. The first lot are Athlon 64s destined for low power mobile devices and we should soon see some desktop versions hitting shelves. The…
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AnandTech took a look at the high end Voodoo Envy M:860 desktop replacement notebook. The system packs in a huge number of high performance features, such as an Athlon 64, DVD burner, and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, much to…
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AnandTech has a mini shoot-out between Intel’s recently released Xeon processor, which is capable of running 64-bit code, and AMD’s Athlon 64 3500+. A little strange to run a server chip against a desktop bound CPU, hopefully a more level…
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PCSTATS compares Buffalo Technology’s FireStix PC4000 DDR memory with some of the other high speed choices in the market. The bright orange/red heatspreaders are eye-catching and the memory does perform moderately well on Intel based systems but is somewhat weak…
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The Tech Report has put the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ through its paces on a set of benchmarks, both synthetic and real world applications, to test if the CPU can pass muster. Nice results from a processor that won’t break…
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PC Magazine has the details on AMD’s newest (old) processor line named Sempron. Odds are the chips are based on already existing designs, meaning, a rebadged Athlon XP for Socket A boards and an Athlon 64 with all of the…
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DigiTimes has some coverage of AMD’s latest round of price changes for its CPU lines. Normally there would be nothing but price cuts across the board for their current processors, now the Athlon 64 had a nice drop in price…
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InfoWorld has the details on a pair of new mobile processors AMD has just announced. The Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ supports both 32bit and 64bit operations and is currently the company’s top-end mobile chip while the new Athlon XP-M 2200+…
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