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Earlier news here ___________________________________________ 09/16/03 - Motherboard & barebone: reviews of the day 1 - MSI KT6 DELTA-FIS2R VIA KT600 at Hexus 2 - MSI KT6 Delta-LSR VIA KT600 at HardOCP 3 - SK8N-EAY nForce3 150 Pro Opteron at HardTecs4U 4 - Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro2 nForce2 Ultra 400 at AllTests ___________________________________________ 09/16/03 - Processor: review of the day 1 - Opteron 146 & Athlon XP vs. Xeon & P4 at Tech Report 2 - Athlon XP vs. Pentium 4 at Hardware Zone 3 - Duron 1.6GHz Applebred at VTR-Hardware ___________________________________________ 09/16/03 - Sun Upgrades Entry-level Server Line "The V250 can also be configured with up to six PCI co-processor cards, which are full Windows or Linux servers in blade form. The cards are based on Advanced Mico Devices' Athlon XP 1600 processor. This makes the V250 the only server to be able to run Solaris, Windows, and Linux applications natively". Read crn here ___________________________________________ 09/15/03 - Motherboard & barebone: reviews of the day 1 - DFI LANParty NFII Ultra nForce2 U400 at Hardcoreware 2 - Tyan Thunder K8W Opteron board manual & datasheet 3 - Gigabyte 7NNXP nForce2 Ultra 400 at TheModFathers 4 - ___________________________________________ 09/15/03 - Good read of the day from AMDboard's friends 1 - SATA HD Roundup at HardOCP 2 - Assembling Your Own PC at PC stats 3 - AM3 AquaMark 3 - First BenchMark at Madshrimps 4 - BIOS Optimization Guide Interim Release 3 at A's RP 5 - Ergonomics & Computers at PC stats 6 - DVD Ripping – The final lesson at Short-Media 7 - Case Modding Contest at Tech-Mods.net ___________________________________________ 09/15/03 - Intel CTO: 64-bit desktop unnecessary So when will 64-bit computing on the desktop become a necessity? "As a rule of thumb, address space [requirements] consume a bit every two years," he said. "We're at 1GB now and starting to see 2GB. So we're probably about three of four years away from really needing that 4GB on general desktops. That puts you out in the 2006/07 timeframe.". Read the fun stuff at The Register ___________________________________________ 09/15/03 - HyperTransport technology: getting acquainted "By using a narrow but high speed bus we see advantages such as easy routing, low power consumption and easy implementation. The latter is probably the most important as AMD need the motherboard manufacturers to support their new processor as soon as it comes out. By glancing at the popular motherboard makers that looks to be a certainty. HyperTransport is versatile too, allowing other buses like PCI, PCI-X to be connected through the use of 'tunnels'". See the report at UK Gamer here ___________________________________________ 09/15/03 - Will 64 bits be a hit? "For more than a decade, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has played the likeable underdog to Intel Corp. in the war for personal computer processor sales. It was the likeable underdog, analysts say, because the chip maker was enough of a threat to pressure Intel to speed up product introductions and to reduce the prices on at least some of its chips.". Enjoy the rest at Statesman here ___________________________________________ 09/15/03 - Alchemy Au1100 delivers Strong EEMBC score EEMBC benchmarks have become an industry standard for evaluating the capabilities of embedded processors and compilers according to objective, clearly defined criteria. Scores for the Au1100 processor have been verified by the independent EEMBC Certification Labs (ECL) to certify that they are repeatable and obtained according to EEMBC rules: The Au1100 processor running at a core operating frequency of 396MHz and using the Green Hills Software MULTI compiler, received the following EEMBC v1.1 scores: Automark 144.4 - Netmark 5.1 - Consumermark 24.8 OAmark 311.8 - Telemark 5.1. Read more at AMD here ___________________________________________ 09/13/03 - HyperTransport System Architecture Book HyperTransport Consortium let us know that Mindshare just released HyperTransport System Architecture a 546-page book that provides a comprehensive, technical guide to HyperTransport technology. It includes detailed information necessary for developers, networking professionals and anyone interested in implementing and deploying HyperTransport- based systems. It's here ___________________________________________ 09/12/03 - Motherboard & barebone: reviews of the day 1 - Abit NF7-S V2.0 nForce2 Ultra 400 at Gruntville 2 - Abit KV7 VIA KT600 at MBReview 3 - Shuttle SN45G nForce2 Ultra 400 at accelenation 4 - Gigabyte K8NNXP nForce3 150 Athlon 64 OCworkbench ___________________________________________ 09/12/03 - Athlon 64 in Japan store already! Akiba2Go! has photos and story here, revealing that AMD Athlon 64 3200+ OPN ODA3200AEP5AP bulk edition and MSI Athlon 64 motherboard K8T NEO-FIS2R are both selling at Akihabara, the huge Tokyo computer area. The report also provide a list of a dozen store selling the bundle (board+chip) for an average of 77500Yen (660$) which can be wisely compared to Barton 3200+ and MSI KT6 found at Dealtime for around 600$. This comparison confirms AMD's intention to create huge demand for 64BIT applications thanks to 64BIT for the price of 32! ___________________________________________ 09/12/03 - Optimized DLLs for Quake3 Some speedy genius has created new Quake 3 DLLs to boost the frame rate when running the game with K6, Duron and various Athlon versions. The result speaks for itself : "my computer (Athlon XP 2.5GHz, 218fsb, 3-4-4-10 ram timings, Geforce 3 standard, Nforce2) running a low detail Quake 3 'four' timedemo at 735fps (yes, 735fps!) with my tweak DLLs". Enjoy the boost here ___________________________________________ 09/12/03 - AMD ready to launch AMD64ZONE.COM? In the Texan game of pulling the trigger faster, it seems that AMD was the winner in registering the most desirable name of the moment: AMD64ZONE.COM! This one is now the full property of the Austin hero as reported at whois.net here. According to the page you'll see there, the name was registered on January 31 and Google acknowledges here that AMDboard.com was first to mention it! ___________________________________________ 09/11/03 - Motherboard & barebone: reviews of the day 1 - ASUS A7V600 VIA KT600 - X-bit labs 2 - DFI LANParty NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 TweakTown 3 - DFI LANParty NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 at Hexus 4 - Soltek KT600-R VIA KT600 at AnandTech 5 - MSI KT6 Delta FIS2R VIA KT600 at 3DVelocity 6 - Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 400 at Lost Circuits 7 - EPoX 8KRA2+ VIA KT600 at PureOC 8 - Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 VIA KT600 at myWORLD 9 - Epox EP-8RGA+ vs. Soltek SL-75FRN2-L at AZPoint ___________________________________________ 09/11/03 - AMD K9 multi-core in 2005 Japanese Hirogishe's Weekly oversea news at PCWatch here is publishing the ultimate AMD roadmap from K6 at 350nm to K9 at 45nm (in 2008). The report also explain why, thanks to overlapping development teams, new processor cores can be released every 3 years which is half of what it used to be few years ago. Following this logic, K9 processor with multi-core and Palladium - built-in security - should come to life no later than 2005! ___________________________________________ 09/11/03 - AMD Opteron: reviews of the day Opteron on the Desktop at ExtremeTech Asus nForce3 SK8N & Opteron 240 at Hardware Zoom 1P Workstation, Opteron 146 at Sudhian Opteron 146 2GHz Review - AMD Zone ___________________________________________ 09/11/03 - Transform AMD Duron Into AMD Athlon XP "There is hardly a point to transform a $45 Duron processor into a $60 Athlon XP one, but, on the other hand, such modification is very interesting from theoretical point of view. We remember that AMD Athlon XP “Thorton” processors are set to appear in the market pretty soon, given that Thorton core is an altered Barton core and has only 256KB of L2 in contrast to Barton’s 512KB of L2, we assume that there will be a way to transform Thorton into Barton winning a massive gain in performance" . Read more at X-bit labs here ___________________________________________ Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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