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by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech put together a round up of motherboards that support AMD’s latest Socket 939 processors. They grabbed the top boards from the well known manufacturers and give you the low-down on each of the board’s features and their performance compared…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld has the story on Intel’s latest chip delay. This time arount it affects a 4.0GHz variant of their Pentium 4 processor which could put a little damper on their holiday sales hopes. So far it seems to be a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Computerworld writes of delays to Microsoft’s planned 64-bit versions of its operating systems. Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 64-bit have both been delayed until next year which could cause a setback in the adoption rate of AMD…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004 · 0 comments

EE Times reports on Intel’s plan to bring together two of its distinct CPU lines, the Itanium and Xeon. The Xeon was usually found in small to mid-range servers but new models are 64-bit processing capable while Itaniums were stuck…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Various U.S. Government agencies seem to be busy purchasing massive new supercomputers for all of their math crunching needs. This time NASA has ordered a huge machine from Silicon Graphics which will had a total of 10,240 Intel Itanium 2…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report enjoys critiquing a new Shuttle entry so it’s no surprise they go into great detail on the company’s new SB81P SFF system. The barebones case comes with the new Intel 915P chipset, a 16X PCI Express slot,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has put together a nice chart that lists all sorts of features for most of today’s modern CPUs. The whole naming scheme Intel introduced as well as all of the subtle changes in caches sizes which lead…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes of Intel’s plans to bundle some of ATI’s video cards with their 915/925 based motherboards. The deal makes a lot of sense as it is somewhat difficult to find PCI Express based video cards even though the choice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 21, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech spent some time with Intel’s Dothan cored Pentium M CPU. Their latest and greatest mobile chip is mostly based on their older chip core although, this time around, it sports a larger 2MB cache and a whole bunch of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 20, 2004 · 0 comments

The Register has the details on a trio of low voltage Intel Centrino CPUs. They come in speeds of 1.4GHz, 1.1GHz, and 1GHz and sport 2MB of cache just like the new Dothan core mobile CPUs from Intel but they…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 19, 2004 · 0 comments

The Mercury News has a nice write-up on Intel’s latest line of desktop chips which breaks down what they have to offer. The article is written in plain enough language so those with a basic knowledge of computers can get…

Read more Intel's New Chips, In Layman's Terms