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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X-bit labs got their hands on a pair of AMD processors featuring a newer core revision. The “E3” core CPUs feature SSE3 support and other enhancements which can improve performance. AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Venice core) AMD Sempron 3100+ (Palermo…
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GamePC has a review of the Shuttle SN25P barebones PC. The small form factor kit crams Nvidia’s nForce4 chipset and AMD Athlon 64 support into one of those sleek little cases they love to create. A good choice if you’re…
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HardwareZone has complete its testing of five motherboards based on VIA’s K8T800 Pro chipset. The chipset is designed for AMD’s Athlon 64 processor line and implements older forms of expansions slots such as AGP and plain-old PCI. A good batch…
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neoseeker has an in-depth look at the various settings one can change on an AMD Athlon 64 platform and how it affects performance. Each setting, by itself, has little to do performance wise but by mixing and matching enthusiasts have…
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The Tech Report has a review of the Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9 motherboard. The product uses VIA’s K8T890 chipset which is another solution that brings PCI Express support to the AMD Athlon 64 platform. It isn’t much of an enthusiast board but,…
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The Tech Report has a look at what 64-bit computing can do in theory and have some results from the “real world”. AMD Athlon 64 and Intel EM64T enabled chips are tested under Windows XP Pro and its 64-bit version….
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Gamers Depot has a look at four motherboards which support Nvidia’s SLI technology. All four boards use the nForce 4 SLI chipset which supports the AMD Athlon 4 (s939) CPU line. The boards cram many great features in and the…
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