ECS has a good idea going with its ECS PF88 Extreme motherboard. At first glance it appears to be another Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 supporting motherboard, which it is, but their proprietary connector allows the user to drop in an…
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The Tech Report has a look at AMD’s upcoming dual core chips. The Athlon 64 X2 line is designed for end-users and high end workstations that require that extra processing power a second CPU core brings to the party. Impressive…
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DigiTimes has the scoop on AMD’s price drops across its Sempron CPU lines. Their Opteron and Athlon 64 chips seem to be left out this go around but some of their budget chips see a small drop….
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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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bios has a look at the HP Pavilion zv5000 notebook computer. The laptop comes equipped with a potent AMD Athlon 3400+ CPU paired up with the somewhat ancient Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go GPU. Good performance for office apps, light-gaming and…
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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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