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Earlier news here ____________________________________________ 07/30/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - Shuttle SN45G nForce2 Ultra 400 barebone at HardOCP 2 - Biostar iDEQ 200N nForce2 barebone at myWORLD 3 - Asus AW171 Opteron workstation at Planet 3DNow! 4 - Gigabyte GA-7S748 SiS748 Specs at OCworkbench 5 - More coming soon... ____________________________________________ 07/30/03 - Look at the good news... IBM eserve 325 Photos & Specifications are online! and it's here ____________________________________________ 07/30/03 - CPU-Z New version Opteron compatible CPU-Z is a very interesting freeware that gives all the requested information about any CPUs. Stepping, version, package, vendor and much more, this new version, rated 1.19, is compatible with both AMD64 processors: Athlon 64 and Opteron. All needed information and download access are located here and our software section is still here ____________________________________________ 07/30/03 - Opteron on Fire! News, benchmarks and supercomputer announcements are coming in at a rare pace. Here are the best, waiting for you at our Opteron Live News Special. Enjoy! - IBM pre-announces AMD Opteron 246 - BOXX Shows XXtreme Workstations at SIGGRAPH 2003 - AMD dual Opteron trashes dual SGI, Dell systems...? - IBM TPC-H benchmarks for its Linux Opteron cluster - VT64 Opteron Clusters arrived! - Is AMD Brewing New Opterons? ____________________________________________ 07/30/03 - Alineos updates Opteron benchmarks Alineos, rumored to be the hottest Opteron distributor in Europe, has quietly updated a truckload of scientific benchmarks comparing Opteron 32bit talents with Apple G4, Athlon XP, Xeon and Itanium 2. The benchmarks include calculation-intensive babies like Amber, BLAST, CHARMM, Scimark2.0 and more as you may see here ____________________________________________ 07/30/03 - VT64 Opteron Clusters arrived! Japan's Visual Technology Limited introduced today its new VT64 cluster with no less than 64 Opterons. The first version with 64 Opteron 244 has been delivered to Doshisha University for the sake of analysing the structure of proteins. The Opteron cluster, that was chosen for its excellent price-to-perfomance ratio, is said to reach 512 Opterons very soon for a nominal speed of 1TFLOPS. Enjoy the VT press release here and PC Watch translated report here too ____________________________________________ 07/29/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - DFI LANParty NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 at pcR 2 - Soltek SL-KT600-R VIA KT600 at Tweak Town 3 - Abit NF7-S V2.0 nForce2 Ultra 400 at AMD Zone 4 - Tyan Thunder K8S Opteron motherboard at Amdmb 5 - MSI K8D Master Opteron motherboard at Amdmb ____________________________________________ 07/29/03 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Quick Look A long time ago, OCAU had an article looking at Mandrake Linux 7 from the perspective of a gamer or hardware enthusiast. Now, Neill has detailed his experiences with the latest version of this popular and newbie-friendly Linux distribution and it's right here ____________________________________________ 07/29/03 - Opteron Live News - Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3.0 beta up for grabs - AMD Price cuts signal new Opterons - Intel's Xeon MP faces tough Opteron competition - Transmeta and AMD plot new launches - Transtec Signs Major OEM Deal with SuSE Linux All the latest Opteron news here ____________________________________________ 07/29/03 - Windows 2000/XP nForce2 2.45 drivers out! Important improvements in the latest Universal Drivers coming from nVidia. After 2.43 snafu (removed after being online for few days) nVidia has spent a great deal of effort to please gamers and new nForce2 Ultra 400 owners. You can get all the details and the right links to use at the nForce Mecca, nForcersHQ here. ____________________________________________ 07/29/03 - Better revenues for second-tier board makers "Second-tier motherboard makers expect their July revenues to grow an average of 10-20% from June. Albatron will ship between 80,000-90,000 graphics cards and 50,000-60,000 motherboards this month, generating more than NT$400 million in revenues, up 43% from June, according to the company". Read more numbers here ____________________________________________ 07/29/03 - AMD: lower prices on value server CPUs OnJuly 28 AMD released its new price list where price cuts mainly target value server CPU's like Opteron 144 now at 438$ from 669$ (-35%) and Athlon MP from 275$ to 230$ (-16%). Prices of Duron, Opteron 800 serie, and Athlon XP remain unchanged as you may see here ____________________________________________ 07/28/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - Albatron KM18G Pro nForce2 at OCCafé 2 - Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L VIA KT600 at MBReview 3 - Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 VIA KT600 at AnandTech 4 - Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro nForce2 Ultra 400 at NGE 5 - DFI LANParty NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 at AMDZone 6 - DFI LANParty NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 at Bjorn3D 7 - Soltek Qbic EQ3701M nForce2 Barebone at Digit-Life ____________________________________________ 07/28/03 - Are You Ready for a 64-Bit PC? "In the next two years, either Intel will ship a 64-bit desktop chip or it will lose the majority of its consumer and business market," Sweeney says. "If I was in Intel's position, I would be working...to get a 64-bit chip ready, but in the meantime, I would be downplaying the importance of 64 bits". Read more at PCWorld here ____________________________________________ 07/28/03 - What is the best path to 64-Bit? "Opteron is also a finger in the eye of Intel, a painful reminder of the Itanium's shortcomings with 32-bit software. Instead of all its software buddies celebrating the birth of its third-generation Itanium 2 6M, Intel has to listen to AMD brag about how its offspring run native 32-bit code right alongside 64-bit applications. " Read the rest here ____________________________________________ 07/28/03 - Opteron to power Chinese Dawning 4000A AMD announced today that it has reached an agreement with Dawning Information Industry Corp. Ltd. of China to include Dawning’s plans to use the AMD Opteron processor to build the fastest supercomputer in China. The Dawning 4000A supercomputer is planned to run at maximum speeds in excess of 10 trillion operations per second, or 10 Tflops. It is also expected to be the first supercomputer made in China to be considered among the most powerful in the world. Read AMD PR here ____________________________________________ Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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