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Earlier News here _____________________________________________ 03/25/04 - Barebone & Motherboard reviews of the day 1 - Asus SK8N nForce3 150 at Driver Heaven - Price 2 - Abit AN7 nForce2 Ultra 400 at Dzikie - Price 3 - Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 at Exclaim - Price 4 - Plextor 708A DVD Burner 8X starting at 169$ here 5 - Thermaltake Highest Xaser III V1000A Tower @ 158$ _____________________________________________ 03/25/04 - AMD earns three awards out of four! AMD announced attendees at last week’s System Builder Summit event in Dallas, TX awarded AMD in three out of four eligible categories. AMD was crowned the winner for Best System Builder Program or Promotion, Best Hardware Product and Best Vendor Overall for both the System Builder Summit and VARVision events. Congratulate AMD after reading the whole press release located here _____________________________________________ 03/25/04 - Huge China deal for AMD Firing on all cylinders, AMD just inked a deal in China that is surely going to spur the stock price to new high: "Under the new memorandum of understanding, AMD will supply its cutting-edge AMD64 chips for use in PCs to be built by Founder Group, which controls between six and nine percent of the Chinese market. ". Read more at Forbes _____________________________________________ 03/25/04 - AMD Opteron Roadkill threatens It looks like Intel call for chosing DOA64MIA technology rather than AMD64's one is a bit prematurate if we take into account the Chipster's latest tips on how things really go at Santa Clara: "Intel does not have the goods nor will they have the goods to compete for nearly a year. Everyone else is going to be Opteron roadkill". Read the cool rest here _____________________________________________ 03/24/04 - Barebone & Motherboard reviews of the day 1 - Iwill DK8X vs. Tyan K8W at LinuxHardware - Price 2 - Abit AN7 nForce2 Ultra 400 at Tech Report - Price 3 - 4 - Plextor 708A DVD Burner 8X starting at 169$ here 5 - Thermaltake Highest Xaser III V1000A Tower @ 158$ _____________________________________________ 03/24/04 - AMD boothless, sleepless & success at CeBIT! This year, AMD has changed its strategy at CeBIT 2004 and instead of a building an expensive flashy booth, AMD sent rigs and people all over the place and inquirer's Paul Dutton reveals today that it was a true success: "as AMD also provided bare processors to a lot of other exhibitors, it's estimated that some five hundred operational systems featuring AMD 64-bit capable processors flooded the halles of the CeBIT this year.". Less money and more brains is definitely the winners' secret recipe... Read here _____________________________________________ 03/24/04 - Blown, blown, blown away!!! Yes! AMD FX-53 is the fastest gaming processor one can buy today (here) and the best developers that have not yet read the next news are joining the crowd to create the most stunning games ever: "At Game Developers Conference, AMD announced that gaming heavyweights Crytek, Epic Games, Havok, Jolt, Super Computer International, Valve and Zombie, Inc. have embraced the AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64 FX, and AMD Athlon 64 processors to create a complete AMD64 gaming pipeline". It's wonderful, its here! _____________________________________________ 03/24/04 - Intel on 64-Bit: "We copy but we're better!" One of good readers has sent us a link to an Intel's document called "64-bit Extension Technology FAQ" where AMD 64-Bit instruction set is mentionned as "compatible" while developers are warmly recommended to stick to Intel's products for some obvious reasons that we are keeping for you at this exclusive page here _____________________________________________ 03/24/04 - Athlon 64 FX-53 at 3GHz! The Chinese speaking site Coolaler Zone has pictures of an Athlon 64 FX-53 running at 3.007 GHz with multiplier at 13.5 and the "cool" help of some liquid nitrogen. The board used is the popular Asus SK8N with 1GB of Corsair DDR 400 (6-2-3-2) allowing to calculate PI with 1 million decimals in 29 seconds which it's still 4 sec behind the Athlon FX51 records at 24 sec Enjoy the prowess here _____________________________________________ 03/23/04 - AMD says demand to rise in second half In a Paris interview of AMD VP president for sales Henri Richard conducted by Bloomberg's staff we learned that AMD expects better sales in 3rd and 4th quarters due to higher demand and higher prices for chip in all segments: "Higher demand for desktop PCs and mobile handsets will boost prices and that's what makes Advanced Micro an interesting investment right now, demand is picking up and chip inventories are low.". Read at Bloomberg here _____________________________________________ 03/23/04 - First picture of Intel 64-Bit emerges An impressive shot shows the next AMD rival coming from giant Intel and, thanks to this visual revelation coming from T-break secret service, AMD fans have good reasons to fear the storm that is going to annihilate all AMD's efforts for supremacy. It's a sad day for us but we have no other choice than celebrating Intel's power... All hail Intel here _____________________________________________ 03/23/04 - Dead Athlon 64 3200+ gets adjustment At IPKonfig, when an Athlon 64 isn't giving satisfactory results it get punished and the shooting of the torture test is trully ugly: "Break on me will you?! Here's saying goodbye to an old friend. We had a lot of fun together, but, heh, he decided to get wasted one night and cause all sorts of problems. I ended up having a talk with him, which he didn't take to kindly to. So, I gave him some perspective; he understands now.". Visit the torture room here _____________________________________________ 03/23/04 - Ace's on AMD future... Short but great article from Ace's Hardware's Johan who's telling us about the AMD future plans tidbits he collected at CeBIT 2004. It concerns many hot topics like multi-core, 90nm, DDRII, improved HTT, socket 939 and TDP: "The 90 nm process is shaping up very ("fantastic" if you believe other sources) well. No confirmation on when the new 90 nm Opteron/Athlon 64 will be available ("H2 2004"), but probably at the end of Q3, according to other industry sources". Get the whole picture at Ace's Hardware here _____________________________________________ 03/22/04 - Barebone & Motherboard reviews of the day 1 - Albatron K8X800 Pro II K8T800 at 3DXtreme - Price 2 - Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 at Thor's Hardware - Price 3 - MSI Mega 180 nForce 2 U400 SFF at HarTware - Price 4 - Plextor 708A DVD Burner 8X starting at 169$ here 5 - Thermaltake Highest Xaser III V1000A Tower @ 158$ _____________________________________________ 03/22/04 - 64-Bit NVIDIA Forceware driver online The latest version of 64-Bit NVIDIA Forceware driver version 57.30 for Windows XP 64-bit and Windows Server 2004 64-Bit is now online. This new 15.6MB driver offers support for GeForce 5700 and GeForce 5700 Ultra, Microsoft DirectX 9,OpenGL 1.5 and supply new features worth a look. The complete feature and download page is located here _____________________________________________ 03/22/04 - Socket 939 Athlon 64 benchmarks German Computerbase site has a couple of benchmarks of the socket 939 Athlon 64 3400+ on nForce3 250Gb compared to the socket 754 version. Unfortunately some technical issue did not allow the reviewer to test the animal in double-channel mode and that is why the overall result does not show any improvement of the newest version compared to the older one. See this here _____________________________________________ Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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