Intel

by Rafael Hernandez on August 12, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has allowed some of the initial “new product launch frenzy” dust to settle and has gathered five motherboards, all sporting Intel’s 925X chipset, and ran them through the usual barrage of tests. They all give similar performance numbers at…

Read more Intel 925X Based Board Roundup

by Rafael Hernandez on August 11, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC had a bit of fun pushing a trio of DDR2 memory from top memory manufacturers. Samsung, Corsair, and Infineon are represented this time around which they managed to coax a bit more speed out of each. They aren’t the…

Read more DDR2 Comparison

by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a mini shoot-out between Intel’s recently released Xeon processor, which is capable of running 64-bit code, and AMD’s Athlon 64 3500+. A little strange to run a server chip against a desktop bound CPU, hopefully a more level…

Read more 64-bit Intel Xeon VS AMD Athlon 64

by Rafael Hernandez on August 6, 2004 · 0 comments

PCSTATS compares Buffalo Technology’s FireStix PC4000 DDR memory with some of the other high speed choices in the market. The bright orange/red heatspreaders are eye-catching and the memory does perform moderately well on Intel based systems but is somewhat weak…

Read more Buffalo FireStix Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 6, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has an article that focuses mostly on NVIDIA’s loss of market share and how it is now in a tie with rival ATI. The company didn’t lose the market share to ATI, rather, they lost it to Intel and…

Read more NVIDIA and ATI Losing Ground

by Rafael Hernandez on August 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Gateway has a few new systems they plan to launch next month that take advantage of the BTX specification, which is heavily promoted by Intel. The spec would place the processor much closer to intake case fans giving it first…

Read more Gateway's BTX Plans

by Rafael Hernandez on August 4, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tested how well DOOM3’s performance scales on various processors. Interesting results that so far see AMD’s latest and greatest pulling a few frames per second lead over Intel’s top Socket 478 chips. Sadly no LGA 775 and DDR2…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech loves nothing more than to get their hands on a new porduct roadmap from CPU manufacturers and dissects what it all means. This time thy’ve deciphered meaning from an Intel roadmap which apparently shows their projected timeframe for dual…

Read more Intel's Dual Core Plans

by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA has a list of companies which will be offering bundles of hardware using its PCI Express enabled system chipsets and video cores. It’s a no brainer at this point in time since both are difficult to find, but I’m…

Read more Companies Bundle NVIDIA Products

by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech takes a fresh look at the performance offered by the built-in video core in Intel’s 915G chipset. The company worked hard on a new chip design and was able to deliver a decent product for the majority of desktop…

Read more Intel 915G Integrated Graphics Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has the details on what will be a big launch date for Intel’s newest line of Xeon server processors, their first mid-range server chip that can handle both 32-bit and 64-bit instructions natively. The big system builders are…

Read more Intel to Debut New Xeons