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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MadShrimps has run a total of nine(9) sets of high performance DDR dual channel memory kits through their AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 based system and came up with many a graph to show off their performance. Speedy benchmark numbers…
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Legit Reviews has a look at the Thermaltake POLO 735 Extreme heatsink designed for Intel P4 478 and AMD Athlon 64 processors. This cooling unit makes use of a huge number of fins, 69 to be exact, giving it a…
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NeoSeeker has a look at the Soltek Qbic SL-3901a small form factor PC featuring the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset which supports AMD’s Athlon 64 (s939). Quite a bit, feature-wise, is crammed into its small case and from a quick look…
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bit-tech has tested a pair of AMD Athlon 64 (s939) motherboards one sporting the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset, the other a Nvidia nForce 3 Ultra. Abit and EPoX are both known for their enthusiast minded approach so their top-notch performance…
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HardwareZone has a review of the MSI K8N Diamond motherboard which supports AMD’s Athlon 64 (Socket 939) CPUs. The board makes good use of the Nvidia nForce4 chipset and brings SLI-capable PCI Express to the party. A solid design from…
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