Athlon 64

by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2004 · 0 comments

SimHQ deals with mostly heavily CPU intensive simulation games so who better to test AMD’s top-end consumer CPU the Athlon 64 FX-53. Very impressive scores and a viable alternative to Intel’s beast of a CPU the 3.4GHz Extreme Edition….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2004 · 0 comments

internetnews.com has a bit of news on AMD’s latest processor launches including the Athlon 64 FX-53 which many sites reviewed yesterday and a new entry, the Athlon 2100+ XP-M Mobile, which just may be their most energy efficient processor available….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2004 · 0 comments

The Athlon 64 FX-53 will be the last “consumer” chip made for the good old Socket 940 platform which has served the high performance and server sectors well. With its launch there is, of course, major coverage so here are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2004 · 0 comments

MetkuMods has a review of the Shuttle AN50R Athlon 64 based motherboard. It sports an NVIDIA nForce 3 150 chipset and almost every single peripheral connection available on board including Gigabit LAN which is powered by Intel. I don’t know…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net was lucky enough to get a motherboard outfitted with NVIDIA’s nForce3 250, their latest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 processor line. It boasts a huge lists of features and matches up quite well with VIA’s chipset offerings so…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review on what will probably be the last major chipset release that will support the AMD Athlon (non 64-bit) platform. The VIA KT880 has a feature set on par with NVIDIA’s Nforce2 chipsets but to find out…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on March 2, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on February 24, 2004 · 0 comments

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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