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05/16/03 - Motherboard & Barebones: reviews of the day
1 - Shuttle SN41G2 nForce2 barebone at myWORLD
2 -
AOpen AK79D Max nForce2 400  at Planet 3DNow!
3 -
AOpen AK79D Max nForce2 at Bjorn3D
4 - MSI Opteron MSI K8D Master-F preview at Icrontic
5 -
Asus AN8X V2.0 nForce2 at Bit-Tech
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05/16/03 - DDR Memory: reviews of the day
1 - Kingston Hyper-X PC3000 DDR 256Mb at TechAddicts
2 -
Buffalo 256MB PC3700 DDR at PC stats
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05/16/03 - Athlon XP 3200+ in Tokyo
Akiba2Go! has found the newest AMD's baby, the Athlon XP 3200+ Barton core,  in some Tokyo's Akihabara stores and reports it with prices (around 515 USD) and very nice pictures of the pakaging. The full translation is right here
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05/16/03
- Bright Spots Amid Flash Memory Sales
"The chief executive of AMD, interviewed in New York recently, says his chip factory, or fab, in Austin, Texas, is running at full tilt. The fab is producing flash memory chips of the type used in wireless telephones. And while the rest of the semiconductor industry is still smarting from the worst downturn in its history, demand for certain types of flash memory is strong". Read at Forbest here
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05/15/03
- Motherboard: reviews of the day
1 -
ECS L7S7A2 SiS746 at Planete Savage
2 -
EPoX 8RDA3+ nForce2 Ultra 400 at Digital-Daily
3 -
Gigabyte 7VAXP-A KT400A at Legion Hardware
4 - Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II nForce2 Ultra 400 at OC.TW
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05/15/03 - More Opteron scientific benchmarks
Mainly used by scientific community, Blast, Amber, CHARMM, and Zebulon benchmarks programs are used at Alineos site to compare Opteron with competitors like Itanium, Xeon, Athlon MP and XP. See that here and enjoy more benchmarks and reviews here
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05/15/03 - Athlon XP 3200+: Polywell Poly 880NF3-3200
CNET: The Poly 880NF3-3200 delivered groundbreaking benchmark test results, some of which remain unmatched even by systems based on the fastest Pentium 4s on the market. Such top-notch performance is doubly shocking in this system, considering that, while Polywell does offer some bleeding-edge options, you can choose to configure the Poly 880NF3-3200 much more affordably than true luxury-gaming PCs that offer similar performance.
Here
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05/15/03 - Intel chips away at AMD market share
"Advanced Micro Devices lost market share during the first quarter of 2003, despite increasing shipments in PC processors, according to new figures from Mercury Research"... Read the rest at CNET here
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05/15/03 - KT400A vs. nForce2 vs. SiS746
A couple of months ago NVIDIA introduced the nForce2 chipset. It outperformed VIA´s KT400 chipset by a considerable margin. Now VIA introduced a newer version, the KT400A. Is it a decent alternative for the Nforce2? And what about SiS?  Madshrimps compared and overclocked three boards --
Abit NF7-S v2.0 (nForce2) vs. DFI Lanparty (KT400A) vs. ECS L7S7A2L (SiS746) -- and it's here
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05/15/03 - Jetway launched first nForce2 motherboards
NVIDIA inked another win with Jetway company which offers two new new designs with the popular
nForce2 chipset. Kocab18G and Kocab 18P are respectively
offering
nForce2-GT and nForce2-ST set of chipsets with
a list of features that can be discovered
here
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05/15/03 - nForce2 Guide updated
Our dear friends from Planet 3DNow! have updated their guide about the nForce2 chipsets, in which installation
and troubleshooting of the most common problems are
shown. Amongst other points the article has been
enhanced by new betadrivers and an APIC troubleshooting section. Here is the
link and it's worth a good look!
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05/14/03
- DDR Memory: reviews of the day
1 -
TwinMOS Dual Channel PC3200 at Viper Lair
2 - TwinMOS
PC3200 & PC3700 Roundup at VR-Zone
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05/14/03
- Coatue sees success in plastic memory
"Coatue Inc., a start-up company reportedly backed by AMD, has successfully built individual memory cells and small arrays of non-volatile memory cells in polymer technology, the company's chief executive said today. " Silicon Strategies has more here about this...
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05/13/03
- Revision 7.7 BIOS optimization guide
The absolute BIOS reference is coming from the great Malaysian site Adrian Rojak Pot, where Adrian himself just posted the latest revision of his world famous guide. The work is loaded  with a bundle of new options that are really worth a visit. So don't delay, click here!
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05/12/03
- Motherboard: reviews of the day
1 -
Albatron KM18G Pro nForce2 at PioPio Hardware
2 -
EPoX 8K9KA9I VIA KT400A at Computerbase
3 -
Biostar M7NCG nForce 2 at Soundcardcentral
4 -
Epox 8RDA3+ nForce2 Ultra 400 at Digital-Daily
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05/12/03 - Modding the Barton XP to a Barton MP
HardwareZone has become the specialist of Athlon XP transformation into MP (multi-processing) version. A year after explaining the trick on Palomino core, the Asian site is back
here with the Barton version that allows big saving and max thrill (do this at you own risk...). More OC here
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05/12/03 - Did AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ earn its rating?
Mario Rodrigue, from the inquirer, has a lot to say about the benchmark weaponery  Intel is desperatly using against the growing acceptance of AMD's chips and
PR Rating. The report is getting even more interesting when Mario is emiting doubts about some hardware sites' integrity and, one more time, leaves no doubt that it is time for tools that leaves no doubt about the exact performance of today's  processor... Definitely great read here
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05/12/03 - Newisys inks agreement with RackSaver
Newisys Inc.  - the premier developer of enterprise-class
AMD Opteron-based server designs for Tier 1 OEMs and system builders - today announced a reseller agreement with RackSaver, the leading provider of high-density individual rack-optimized servers and supercomputing clusters. Read more here
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