LostCircuits spent some time with a Venice core AMD Athlon 64 CPU. The Venice core is a more refined process of AMD’s previous cores which improves power consumption and includes SSE3 instruction sets. A nice improvement, overall, which should help…
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The Tech Report pit the four major Athlon 64 supporting chipsets against each other. The Nvidia nForce4 Ultra, SiS 756, VIA K8T890, and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 can all handle PCI Express peripherals, some more than others, with the Xpress…
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It’s HotHardware’s turn to take a crack at the Shuttle SN25P XPC. The familiar small form factor design hold’s Nvidia’s nForce 4 chipset, for AMD Athlon 64s, as well as a host of on-board peripherals including VIA’s Envy24 chip which…
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HardOCP has a look at the Shuttle SN25P small form factor PC. The barebones kit brings the Nvidia nForce 4 chipset into the smaller realm in a stylish chassis, giving an AMD Athlon 64 PCI Express capability. Great performance and…
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Hexus.net has a look at the SCAN 3XS ISOTOPE PC system. The SCAN people put together a mean package of components based around an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ into a “undecahedron” case with a wild sci-fi-like canister paint job. Impressive…
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AnandTech ran their suite of tests on an AMD Sempron 3300+ CPU. The chip is part of AMD’s “value” line, for socket 754 motherboards, which features a higher clock speed and SSE3 support. Good performance from the CPU although an…
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CoolTechZone has a review of the Abit KV8 Pro motherboard. The board is designed for AMD’s Athlon 64 socket 754 line which has seen a number of new products drop in supporting it. It looks like a solid board, overall,…
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ExtremeTech has a review of the MSI RS480M2-IL MicroATX motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset which happens to have an on-board graphics unit making a preliminary upgrade to this board a little less costly. Another solid MSI…
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The Tech Report has a look at the Shuttle XPC ST20G5 SFF system. The mini-system features the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset for AMD Athlon 64s (s939) giving it some integrated, although slow, video capabilities. A sleek, space-saving design that…
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CNET News has the details on AMD’s plans to ship dual-core CPUs this month. The Opteron chips will be targeted at servers and workstation markets which can demand higher price tags. Later this year the company will also launch dual-core…
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HardOCP has a look at the ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard. The board supports AMD’s Athlon 64 CPUs and makes fine use of the Nvidia nForce4 Ultra chipset. Gone from the board are the old parallel and serial legacy ports, in…
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