Intel is ditching the high megahertz speed race in favor of an energy efficient, unified line of chips for both desktops and notebooks according to CNET News. Their “Merom” chips will be based on the Pentium M processor which is…
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Intel is launching a pair of new processors both of which are Pentium 4s running at 3.4GHz but one is based on their previous generation “Northwood” core and the other their newer “Prescott” design. Both chips vary in features so…
SimHQ deals with mostly heavily CPU intensive simulation games so who better to test AMD’s top-end consumer CPU the Athlon 64 FX-53. Very impressive scores and a viable alternative to Intel’s beast of a CPU the 3.4GHz Extreme Edition….
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AnandTech takes a look ahead at DDR2, which will become the high speed memory favored by both Intel and AMD later this year and on into next. No performance numbers as of yet since no motherboards use the memory, just…
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MetkuMods has a review of the Shuttle AN50R Athlon 64 based motherboard. It sports an NVIDIA nForce 3 150 chipset and almost every single peripheral connection available on board including Gigabit LAN which is powered by Intel. I don’t know…
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AnandTech has some news on Intel’s purported change in processor naming. Up until now it was useful for them to just label their processors at its clock rate, for example P4 3.2GHz, but with upcoming architecture changes seeing something like…
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X-bit labs has a bit of inside info on Intel’s future chipset plans for its Xeon line of processors. It seems the company will be moving away from a two chip platform to a three chip solution with the memory…
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Hexus.net got busy with the Athlon 64 3000+, AMD’s “bargain” 64-bit processor. They take a look at the retail version of the chip and show you what you can expect out of it when compared to AMD’s other 64-bit offerings…
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VR-Zone Hardware has a review on a new SFF to the market, the rather shiney EPoX eX5 Mini Me. This Intel platform based cube uses the 865G chipset which is host to a wide array of connectivity options making this…
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GamePC slapped together some components and built two somewhat affordable “servers” to compare. The servers feature competing processors: AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s Pentium 4 3GHz which they put through a series of tests. If you need to do some hosting…
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AnandTech has a comparative analysis between the new Intel Xeon 3GHz 4MB cache beast and the AMD Opteron 2.2GHz with 1MB of cache. They put them through a set of rough server tests and get some interesting results from these…
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