GamePC has a roundup of four PCI Express capable boards for AMD’s Athlon64 (s939) CPUs. The boards each tout a different chipset with entries from ATI, VIA, and two from Nvidia making a showing. The MSI/ATI board is one of…
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GamePC has a review of the Asus A8V-E Deluxe. The AMD Athlon 64 based board features VIA’s new KT890 chipset which supports PCI-E cards, but no Nvidia SLI support, as well as an on-board 802.11G wireless chip with antenna connector….
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FastLaneHW has a review of the Soyo KT880 Dragon 2 motherboard. The board makes use of VIA’s KT880, its only dual channel chipset for the AMD Athlon/Sempron Socket A CPUs. The board is not the fastest available but it looks…
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HotHardware has a look at new chips that Intel has added to it Pentium 4 processor line. The new CPUs bring in some refinements that are meant to speed up the chips and cut down on heat production as well…
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Legion Hardware has tested the Swiftech H20-120 watercooling kit. The setup includes everything needed to get started with cooling an Intel Pentium 4 (s478) and AMD Athlon 64 processors. A great package which is capable of shaming one of the…
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PCSTATS has a look at the AOpen n250a-FR motherboard for AMD’s older socket 754 Athlon 64s and Semprons. The board makes good use of the Nvidia nForce3-250 chipset and performs well compared to the socket 939 based chips/motherboards. An inexpensive…
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Hexus.net has a look at a motherboard from a little-known company, the EQS A58XK9-ALF. The board supports AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs and uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200P chipset combo. Impressive numbers keep it competitive with Nvidia’s time-tested nForce3 250Gb…
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GamePC takes another look at the Intel Pentium M CPU in a desktop role and pits it against the AMD Athlon 64 90nm chips. A very competitive showing by the little mobile chip once again although pricing on the top…
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Driver Heaven has a look at the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs. PCI Express has been a popular feature touted by board makers with new nForce 4 based products to hawk but this…
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Ars Technica takes a look under the hood of AMD’s 64-bit capable CPUs. The Opteron and Athlon 64 lines have been a popular chip line because of its performance, 64-bit potential, and scaling. Ars goes about explaining how the chip…
Legion Hardware has a comparison between the AMD Sempron 3100+ processor and the Athlon 64 3200+ CPU. The Sempron comes in at half the cache of an Athlon 64, which cripples it quite a bit, and no 64-bit support. As…
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