Coming about two weeks after Intel dropped prices on its processor lines, AMD has slashed a bit off the top on its wide range of chips. Several retailers are already showing updated pricing so now is a great time to…
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Yahoo News has a bit on both AMD and Intel’s plans for the near future in the CPU realm. With Intel close to announcing their plans to use the x86-64 architecture on upcoming processors there will be a nice battle…
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DigiTimes has a bit of info on Intel’s forthcoming Grantsdale chipset, which is meant to pair up with the recently launched Prescott processor. Seems the boards will carry quite the price premium if motherboard manufacturers decide to push DDR2, but…
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t-break has gathered together some of the latest Intel 865PE based, Pentium 4 motherboards and ran them through a series of tests. A rather extensive article with lots of pretty pictures, useful if you plan on a P4 PC in…
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Intel will be showing off a little something they like to call Wireless USB 2.0 at next week’s Intel Developer Forum. While the naming scheme seems odd since we’re used to USB devices using cables they can call it whatever…
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It’d make sense for Intel to show up at their own Intel Developer Forum, which runs from February 17th to the 19th. With that in mind, PC World has some information on what to expect Intel to present at the…
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bit-tech slapped a pair of AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 3400+ into some motherboards and ran them through a nicely mixed set of benchmarks. They also throw in comparative numbers to some other mid-range to high end CPUs also from…
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1up has a rather lengthy article on what what could be a big sticking point for future Xbox 2 purchasers, backwards compatibility with current Xbox games. The biggest hurdles overall seem to be technological problems and intellectual property concerns….
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Legit Reviews gathered a few cooling solutions for Intel’s Prescott processor and has some nifty charts to show for it. One thing is certain, the Prescott core pumps out some sick heat which requires some extreme measures to cool down,…
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LinuxHardware.org put top Intel CPUs and a single high end AMD CPU through the wringer and came up with some performance figures under a Linux operating system. It would have been interesting to see how the Athlon 64 FX-51 (dual…
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Bjorn3D has the low-down on the Intel Pentium 4 based Shuttle XPC SB75G2. This “small form factor” barebones system crams a larger number of features, such as firewire and serial ata, into a tiny space….
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