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Earlier news here ======================================= 01/13/03 - Athlon XP processor roundup Palomino and Thoroughbred horses are sought after around the world as are the new CPUs from AMD that are aptly named "Thoroughbreds". In this review AthlonXP here will be taking a few of our own kind of Thoroughbreds out for a ride in the form of AMD's XP2400+ (266), XP2600+ (333), XP2700+ (333), and XP2800+ (333). Put on your boots and hat, load your six-shooter and let's ride! (Thanks PSY for the rodeo!) ======================================= 01/13/03 - EPoX 8K9A2+ KT400 mainboard reviews Very popular board in Europe, the 8K9A2+ from EPoX get reviewed in three sites from the old continent. Italy first, with a translation from PC Tuner here, then Germany, here, with a short review vs. the Asus A7S333 from TecCentral, and Spain at Noticias3D here... Ole! ======================================= 01/13/03 - DFI AD77 KT400 motherboard review Canadian PCStats is testing the 100$ KT400 motherboard loaded with feature (5.1 audio, Serial ATA, IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, 10/100 LAN and 8x AGP) and gives and enthusiastic rating: "When teamed up with an AthlonXP 2700+, it is able to perform on par to that of a P4 2.8 GHz with a Granite Bay based motherboard which is much more expensive". Read the review here and enjoy more AD77 links to reviews at our Special page here ======================================= 01/13/03 - Athlon MP 2400+ versus Xeon 2.8GHz GamePC offers 14 pages of the most interesting fight one could expect before Opteron arrival... MP vs. Xeon, this SMP battle confirms the excellent price-performance ratio of Athlon MP and limits of the aging 760MPX platform which is, according to our sources, not going to be updated. Read the whole review here and check for more MP 2400 reviews and links here ======================================= 01/13/03 - Shuttle SK41G KM266 barebone review Shuttle seems to concentrate on barebone and hope to ship 500.000 of them in 2003 after having sold 250000 units in 2002. the SK41G is part of the AMD range which includes the SS40G and the SN41G2, and get thoroughly tested at Lost Circuits in another quality review you may find here. More excellent reviews are also stored here ======================================= 01/13/03 - Lehman Brothers: AMD revenue up 36%! Lehman Brothers weighed in AMD and expect the company to announce a 36 percent sequential increase in revenue for a total $698 million and an EPS loss of 50 cents per share for Q4 02: "We believe processor ASPs rebounded over 25 percent quarter-over-quarter while units shipped increased almost 20 percent to over six million units". Read the full story here ======================================= 01/13/03 - DDR 400 PC3200 Ram reviews Chosing a DDR ram is important too and many factors have to be taken into account: Price, OC potential, capacity, motherboard's limits are among the choice's criteria and reading DDR's reviews is far from useless. That's why we have added another two to our long list of DDR 400 reviews. The first is coming from OC Café here with OCZ PC3200 EL DDR 400 memory and the second here is coming from OC'ers Hardware with an Xtreme 256mb PC3200 review. ======================================= 01/13/03 - More Opteron servers spotted Last week we found out that Angstrom and Polywell had Opteron rack servers, based on Newisys Khepri design, ready. Today we have another group of resellers among which we have French, German and Swiss companies. They are all stored at our Opteron Special Page here where all the newer will be added: So stay tuned!... ======================================= 01/13/03 - Leadtek K7NCR18G nForce IGP Akiba PC Online reports with photos, the arrival in Tokyo of nForce2 GT Leadtek motherboard K7NCR18G with integrated GeForce4 MX. Already in 15 stores, the board is sold for an average of 18000Yen (151$) which is surprisingly cheap if compared to K7NCR18D's (no graphics) price of 115$. Visit Akihabara here ======================================= 01/13/03 - ESTASI the new cool cooler We all know Italian were ice cream specialist but did we know they were also smart CPU radiator designer? No, of course, until PSY sent us the most unbelievable piece of technological history. A bunch of OC incredibile artisti have designed and built up a new kind of fan based on Peltier cooling technology and then, managed to run an Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167MHz) at almost 3GHz with a chip temperature of -16.7°C!!!. This awesome report is here for your utmost viewing satisfaction... ======================================= 01/13/03 - Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 mainboard review HardOCP's reviews are always a great read. Lots of useful pictures, smart tips about BIOS features and no non-sense benchmarks make the whole worth reading. Today the happy winner of HardOCP's attention is the pricey (168$ at ebay here) Chaintech nForce2 7NJS motherboard which provides good features and performances: "Given the 7NJS's performance in benchmarks and overclocking, I find it hard to imagine anyone being disappointed with the 7NJS". Read here and check for more 7NJS reviews at our Special here ======================================= 01/13/03 - Aopen MK77M-V KM266 board review Thanks to ExtremeMHz we know a little bit more about KM266 chipset potential with the first review of Aopen MK77M-V, the cheapest of a serie of three boards named MK77M, MK77MII and MK77M-V. The verdict is quite good even though the board don't grab a Excellence Award: "it does earn a much deserved highest recommendation from our team". Enjoy the rest here ======================================= 01/12/03 - More Awards for AMD For the second year in a row, price leadership helped chip maker Advanced Micro Devices beat rival Intel in CRN's Channel Champions survey. AMD earned an overall satisfaction rating of 84, almost 8 points higher than Intel's 76.2, and the victor shone brightest in the areas of price, profitability and return on investment. In price, AMD stomped Intel by a resounding 28.3 points. Read the rest here and check the AMD vs. Intel Special here ======================================= 01/11/03 - IBM, Dell, HP could go for Newisys design Newisys, the creator of Khepri, server design for Opteron has already dispatched 50 test versions of it to various companies among which are the three top-tier U.S. server makers, reports ZDNet: "The first product from Newisys will be a two-processor Opteron server. The company also is expected to introduce a four-processor server capable of connecting with other four-way servers to create machines with eight, 16 or more processors". Read the rest here and check for more Newisys here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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