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Earlier news here ====================================== 03/22/03 - Windows 64-Bit for Opteron on April 21st! C't announces in its 'Processor Whisper' reports here than Microsoft will officialy launch Windows XP Server 2003 Version for 64-Bit Opteron on the 21st of April which is exactly one day before the official AMD chip's launch. This news comes as a big surprise after EETimes announced yesterday here than 64-Bit Windows wasn't going to show up before later this year of 2004 ====================================== 03/22/03 - Athlon XP Barton FSB 400MHz The chance to see a Barton XP 3000+ with a front side bus at 400MHz are high and PCstats is anticipating with a comparison between the 333MHz version and the 400MHz ones: "raising the Athlon's bus speed from 333MHz to 400MHz can bring some fairly hefty performance increases, and hopefully this can hold AMD over till the Athlon64 is ready". Read the whole here ====================================== 03/21/03 - CeBIT 2003 coverages As surprising as it may seem, and after having already posted more than a dozen links to very good CeBIT 2003 coverages, we still have more for you coming from, respectively, German Golem here and UK inquirer here. Both have excellent reports on specific events that took place during the five days of the mammoth fair... ====================================== 03/21/03 - Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Black Edition Following the trend of stylish boards and packages, Soyo has released a black version of the successful KT400 Dragon Ultra. Bjorn3D here has this black beauty under microscope and here what he has to say: "Overall the SY-KT400 DRAGON Ultra is a good buy. Soyo has managed to create a very good package. If they can fix the flaky performance with DDR400 via the bios the board also will be a good board for the future" ====================================== 03/21/03 - IBM to make Opteron servers There is more and more evidence that IBM will be doing Opteron servers to occupy low cost servers' market before the release of its Power5, sometime in 2004. The latest comes from Germany with some revelations coming from IBM system architect Ravi Arimilli in ZDNet.de roughly translated here ====================================== 03/21/03 - Opteron pricing revealed! After publishing the first Opteron Launch Schedule here and grouping all the known Opteron distributors in a single page here, we have the first hint about Opteron pricing with an official Price list coming from one the main AMD Opteron's distributor. Read the story here ====================================== 03/20/03 - Athlon XP hidden power Xbitlabs found a PHP script at Bloodys here that turns the user unfriendly markings from any Athlon XP based processor to human readable information such as CPU frequency, FSB, operating voltage, L1 and L2 cache size, multiplier and so on. One of the most useful function is that the script automaticaly identifies weather the CPU core is Palomino, Thoroughbred (A or B revision) or the newest one, Barton. With this awesome script you might discover that your Athlon is more powerful than you thought it was (due to AMD's downgrade). ====================================== 03/20/03 - More CeBIT coverages More CeBIT, more Athlon 64 motherboards, more Opteron, more barebone, more video cards, enjoy more coverages at Ace's Hardware here and Xbitlabs here ====================================== 03/20/03 - PSU section in Coolers Roundups Special After thermal compound, it's now PSU's turn to be included in our Coolers Roundups Special and the first listed shootout comes from TecCentral where 3 PSUs (power supply units), including a fanless one, from SilentMaxx are being tested in-depth. Enjoy that here ====================================== 03/20/03 - Inside the ABit NF7-S Ver. 1.2 Abit's move from the Rev 1.1 to the 1.2 revision of the NF7-S is surrounded by more myth than facts; The new revision overclocks marginally better than the Rev 1.1. Is it a matter of the different brands of MOSFETs used? Are Infineon's OptiFETs better than the Philips or Fairchild switches? Read on at Lost Circuits here ====================================== 03/19/03 - nVidia readies K8 crush chipset for A64 A report from inquirer here gives some details about nVidia nForce chipsets for Athlon 64. According to the report, they will be, not two as previously revealed, but three of them: K8, K8G, and K8S. This last one is a new reference which will target enthusiast and gamer market with a Front Side Bus (FSB) at 1.6GHz! ====================================== 03/19/03 - SiS746FX vs. KT400, KT400A & nForce2 Comparing SiS746FX to its peers isn't a bad idea at all. Amdmb did it and this gives a clear pictures of each chipset strengh and weakness. So between SiS746FX, KT400, KT400A or nForce2, the choice is yours here ====================================== 03/19/03 - CeBIT last day, last coverages Surprisingly on the last day, there are still coverages showing up and we're pleased to bring them to you as we zealously did for the past days. Today we can offer you the one at Hardare Analysis here and an interesting one from Beyond3D here with more text than photos which makes it quite unique compared to the ones we have here ====================================== 03/19/03 - AMD & nVidia on FSB at 400MHz Back from CeBIT, Brother Mike has some of the most exciting revelations about what's happening backstage. According to his report here, AMD and nVidia are preparing a Pentium killer that would be a combination of a nForce2 FSB 400MHz and Barton making the whole, able to take a 15 to 18% lead in current benchmarks! ====================================== 03/19/03 - AMD upgraded by CSFB CSFB upgrades to neutral from underperform based on their belief that the spinout of the co's flash memory biz will be viewed favorably and that AMD will have the highest exposure to high density flash memory, which is the fastest growing sector in their 2003 semi forecast. ====================================== 03/19/03 - nForce2 MX on the way? According to Russian site ITC Online here, nVidia it thinking of releasing a cheap version of nForce2 chipset, named nForce2-MX which would be lightened of the non strategical features like IEEE1394, LAN, Dual channel memory controller and onboard audio... ====================================== 03/19/03 - Abit NF7-S nForce2 motherboard review The Abit NF7-S is a speed demon and get reviewed on a daily basis. Today LAN Addict is giving us more than a simple review with a complete BIOS pictures that tells us every thing we need before thinking of pushing the board to the limit: "the NF7-S Motherboard from Abit is a very capable motherboard, and is great for hardcore over-clockers, enthusiasts, and gamers alike". Read that here ====================================== 03/19/03 - Aircooling to the max roundup Looking for the ultimate aircooling? Want to push more then 1.85v through that Athlon XP core and still have headroom for overclocking? Or looking for a very silent solution to keep it all cool and safe? Look no further, Madshrimp here test ThermalRight's SLK900U and compare it to its older brother the SLK800. And for reference they also include the popular Alpha PAL8045 and the Swiftech 462-A! More coolers shootouts here ====================================== Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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