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Earlier news here ======================================= 01/21/03 - Athlon XP 1700+ vs. Celeron vs. P4 Russian site OC.RU has just finished a breathtaking match between three 13nm competitors overclocked to the limit. The XP 1700+ (60$) is then pushed to 1.9GHz, the Celeron (90$) OC'ed from 2GHz to 3GHz and the Pentium 4 (150$) OC'ed from 1.8GHz to 2.8GHz. If the Intel's babies can earn a hefty 60% speed increase with overclocking, their performances aren't so impressive and Athlon XP remains a much better buy! Read this here ======================================= 01/21/03 - MSI K7N2G nForce IGP in Tokyo The MSI nForce IGP K7N2G motherboard has arrived in Akihabara Tokyo Japan at more than 30 stores already for a price between 16800 and 18800Yen (140$ to 160$). We have the resellers' list right here and the photos here. ======================================= 01/21/03 - Athlon XP 2700+ at 2.8GHz! Using a new breed of cooler called Prometiea (from Chip-Con), Tom's Hardware's crew has succeeded in pushing the Athlon XP 2700 to the high speed of 2.8GHz which is equivalent to a PR rating of 4000+. The whole system is heavy and cost around 600$ but the cooling power will stun the most demanding overclockers... Read here ======================================= 01/21/03 - AMD Announces Scyld Beowulf 64-Bit AMD announced that Scyld Computing Corporation is developing a 64-bit version of Scyld Beowulf, a leading cluster operating system, for systems based on the upcoming AMD Opteron processors. The new version of Scyld Beowulf, expected to be available mid-first half 2003, will be optimized for AMD's 64-bit technology to bring enhanced Linux kernel, libraries and utilities specific to clustered x86 computing. Read more here ======================================= 01/21/03 - Asus, ECS, and Via's ambitions Digitimes has two separate reports about taiwanese firms and many are showing high optimism and/or strong ambition to grab more market shares in 2003. Asus and ECS want the lion share here with 40% growth while Via here is simply having a 6 millions C3 processors target for the period. Finally, all those numbers bode well for the starting year and should please AMD's investors... ======================================= 01/21/03 - KT400 motherboards roundup Some courageous gamers are putting Abit, Gigabyte and FIC in the same racefield for our sporting pleasure. It's at Gamer Depot here and the invited boards are: Abit AT7-MAX2, Gigabyte GA-7VAXP and FIC AN19E Stealth: "All three of these boards prove that there’s still a great deal of life left in the current Athlon XP platform and would make a viable solution for your gaming needs" ======================================= 01/21/03 - Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro nForce2 review On this small planet, there is a motherboards heaven called MBReview where quality reviews are stored in a big database and can be retrieved in seconds. Today, this gorgeous place offers here a very interesting review about what is considered to be one of the fastest nForce2 mainboard in the market: the Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro ======================================= 01/21/03 - DDR266 & DDR400 reviews With powerful chips being overclocked beyond sanity, quality DDR chips are more and more requested. Reviews are of good help and we found two great ones: A modest Crucial PC2100 at MikhailTech here and a more ambitious PC3700 one at TechZone here. ======================================= 01/21/03 - Athlon XP 2700+ processor review The XP 2700+ is the fastest AMD processor widely available and OCaddiction is testing the animal with the following configuration: ABIT AT7 MAX2 (C5 BIOS), 512 MB Kingston HyperX DDR3500 and ATI Radeon 9700 PRO. Here is a bit of the conclusion: " the 2700+ is well worth the money if screaming performance is a must for you." while the rest is waiting here ======================================= 01/21/03 - Tyan Thunder K7X Pro 760-MPX reviews Philip has mailed us about two Tyan Thunder K7X Pro reviews. The first is a big one at 2CPU where the board is nostalgically declared as the last Athlon MP tested due to the imminent Opteron's arrival. The second is a live server setup at Tech Report where the aging P!!! was sent to retirement home and replaced with a shiny Thunder K7X Pro with 2 Athlon MP 2200+ and lot of hot swappable SCSI hard drives under RAID control... ======================================= 01/21/03 - SiS has new SiS745FX chipset coming The inquirer has learned about some new chipsets SiS is about to release for AMD and Intel. The source mentions the imminency of the SiS745FX which, coupled with SiS963L (new SiS963 breed), offers MuTIOL 1G, USB 2.0, Dual ATA 133 and more. Read this here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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