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Earlier news here ======================================= 02/25/03 - Athlon XP 2100+ at 3383GHz! O4Pro Team from Finland, using EPoX 8RDA+ with watercooling on southbridge and northbridge and liquid nitrogen at -196°C on CPU, managed to overclock a simple XP 2100+ to the incredible speed of 3382,65GHz. At that speed, SuperPi 1 million was done in 34 seconds and PCMark 2002 shown a score of 10004! Photos and benchmarks are all here and more OC await for you here ======================================= 02/25/03 - Epic Games says Opteron 4x better A Slashdot short post from Epic Games Tim Sweeney is very hot about upcoming Opteron and it's worth reading if you have any doubt about the chip's chances: "This platform is going to be a godsend for anybody running serious workstation apps. It will beat other 64-bit workstation platforms (SPARC/PA-RISC/Itanium) in price/performance by a factor of 4X or more. The days of $4000 workstation and server CPU's are over, and those of $1000 CPU's are numbered". Read that here ======================================= 02/25/03 - KT400A: First motherboard to show up KT400A chipset could be the Via's last chance to get back the lost share nVidia has gobbled away with super nForce2, and OCworkbench has a living proof of Via's intention with the Gigabyte GA-7VAPX-A Ultra photos and short specs showing full DDR400 support, AGP8X, Serial ATA, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394. Enjoy this here ======================================= 02/25/03 - nVidia: Dual nForce FX? NO! HardOCP yesterday gave us such a great pleasure with the confidential draw's post here, showing an Asus board dual socket A under nForceFX supervision. Today, inquirer's Jack Russel is publishing the nVidia's denial here along with some good points that lead us to think that the dream could end up being a smart reality... ======================================= 02/25/03 - nForce2 motherboards roundup Thomas at Thor's Hardware isn't saving his energy to offer another insightful roundup divided into separate reviews like the Asus A7N8X here and the EPoX 8RDA+ here. According to the presentation named "Mysteries without a logic" here, four more reviews can be expected within days, so, stay tuned to Thor's Hardware... ======================================= 02/25/03 - Asus A7V8X KT400 motherboard review The sound of KT400A is getting louder but this is not enough to refrain some young and beautiful site to review the KT400 powered motherboard like the fast and furious Asus A7V8X Arakis Network is testing for us here ======================================= 02/25/03 - AMD to present at Morgan Stanley 2003 AMD today announced that AMD Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert J. Rivet will present at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference 2003 at 8:30 a.m. PST (11:30 p.m. EST) on Monday, March 3, 2003 at The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California. Read more here ======================================= 02/25/03 - Abit NF7-S nForce2 motherboard review After some absence of Abit products, Lost Circuits is back with looking at the nForce2 chipset-based NF7-S. Built around the SPP / MCP-T combination of core logic on a salmon-colored PCB, the NF7-S has quite a bit to offer, from a three-phase power supply to a 5-bit multiplier selector and the bundling of the SATA to PATA adapter dubbed a Serillel converter. Read that here ======================================= 02/25/03 - Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 mainboard review Chaintech superstar 7NJS is undressed at OCNZ here where Hans Chang is not saving on the camera to provide us with some great motherboard picts and BIOS's photos that give good hints on the board's OC potential: "The Zenith is pretty strong in overclocking as well, reaching a maximum FSB of 200 MHz. Lastly, it comes with a very impressive package, from rounded cables to Cbox2" ======================================= 02/25/03 - Athlon XP 3000+ Barton in Japan now! Watch Impress has the news with photos! Athlon XP 3000+ Barton core is now flooding Akihabara Tokyo and the high price tag of 75000Yen (640$) isn't stopping Japanese buyers from getting every single piece... ======================================= 02/24/03 - FIC AU11 nForce2 motherboard review VR-Zone has this FIC AU11 nForce2-ST under the microscope and the motherboard is showing some benchmarks and overclocking talents that brings the board, a Merit award: "They're combination of price and performance is definately one of the best around at this point in time". Read more here ======================================= 02/24/03 - ASRock K7S8X SiS746FX board review Few days after we announce the board, OCworkbench has a gallery of the SiS746FX chipset ASRock K7S8X motherboard and it's right here ======================================= 02/24/03 - AMD: new round of price cut To answer back Intel's price onslaught here, AMD just released, today, its brand new price list where the high end chips' prices have been more severely wounded in this last attempt to stick with Intel pricing diktat. ======================================= 02/24/03 - Dual nForce2 motherboards ready? HardOCP has a motherboard graphic which show a dual socket A with a nForceFX chipset along with HTT PCI-X tunnel chip 8131from AMD: "The board layout is obviously an Asus board as the BlueMagic PCI Slot is present on the board". Visit HardOCP here ======================================= 02/24/03 - Sun picks AMD's Athlon for blades After months of rumors and counter rumors Infoworld announces a deal between SUN and AMD which is quite different from what we were expecting: "Sun will use Athlon XP-M processors, originally developed for mobile computing, running at 1.2GHz or 1.4GHz.". Read here ======================================= 02/24/03 - nVidia nForce and nForce2 APU The nVidia audio processing unit (APU) that is found in Xbox and nForce MCP, MCP-C and MCP-T, is the brain and muscle behind powerful audio functions like 3D, chorus, Soundstorm, Dolby Interactive Content Encoder (DICE), and more. Those specificities are now explained in a synthetic article from 3DSS you may find here ======================================= 02/24/03 - OCZ Technology heatsinks review OCZ technology, founded in 2000, is famous for bringing to the market very good memories but little did we know that OCZ was also providing socket A cooling solutions? Thanks to Legitreview, we're now fully informed of that with a full blast review of two of the brand's heatsinks: Gladiator II and Dominator 2-CU. It's here and it's coool ======================================= 02/24/03 - Asus A7N8X nForce2-ST mainboard review Even though nForce2-GT is grabbing much of reviewers' attention, the Asus A7N8X manages to stay on the top of the sales thanks to an impressive quantity of enthusiastic review. Hardware Review is adding one to the stack with just a negative comment about Asus pricing: "with the amount of extra options and features that come with the deluxe version at only a slightly higher cost, it certainly makes the non-deluxe version a tough sell". Read here ======================================= 02/24/03 - Leadtek K7NCR18G-Pro nForce2 review The Leadtek K7NCR18G-Pro nForce 2 motherboard is the richest featured nForce2 coming from the maker and UK Tech-PC is reviewing the board in-depth to conclude with simplicity: "The Leadtek board is affordable, great value for money, and performs like a demon. What more could you ask for?". Read the whole review here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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