by Rafael Hernandez on February 16, 2004
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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…
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by Rafael Hernandez on February 10, 2004
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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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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004
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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…
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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004
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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…
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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004
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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
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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
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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 27, 2004
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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….
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 26, 2004
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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…
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by Rafael Hernandez on December 27, 2003
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The Inquirer has glossed over AMD technical documents and brought you their thoughts on the upcoming Dual-core Athlon64/Opteron chips. ETA: Mid/Late 2004…
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