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10/18/02
- Opteron: more details and benchmarks
We have now two more  interesting articles about Opteron. The first from
Ace's Hardware summarizes all pieces about the CPU while the second, translated from German 3DCenter, provides us with new benchmarks and mentions the very good scalability of the chip compared to others (Athlon, Xeon, Pentium)..
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10/18/02
- nForce users forum
nForce users has a new dedicated forum
here called nforcershq that deals with nForce motherboards from Asus, Abit, Leadtek, MSI and more. The forum is meant to become a nForce devoted site in a very near future. We'll tell you as soon as it comes alive... Stay tuned
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10/18/02
- Aopen BIOS table for XP compatibility
Aopen has now several tables which tell you what the fastest CPU you can put on your Aopen motherboard if the latest BIOS is loaded. It's
here
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10/18/02
- Epox K7S6A SiS 745 review
The excellent German hardware site K7Jo has just updated its K7S6A review and, as usual, it worth a good look. Read the review here and enjoy more of them
here
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10/18/02
- THG's AMD roadmap a fake?
Here we go! Another controversy is on the way. After THG published a confidential AMD roadmap (see below) K-Hardware is thowing oily doubts on the fire in a documented report you'll find
here. Stay tuned...
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10/18/02
- AMD to cut operating costs by 350m$
Increasing margin is not only raising the incomes. Cutting cost is also a good way to make higher profit
and that's the strategy chosen by AMD CEO Hector de
Ruiz who, according to EETimes
here, vows to reduce
capex, R&D spendings, and other costs to reach
break-even revenue point of 875m$ . 
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10/18/02
- VIA, SiS may introduce new K7 chipsets
Christy Lee at DigiTimes is reporting about Via and SiS intention to upgrade current chipset generation to compensate the postponment of Hammer and improve DDR400 support. Read the report here
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10/18/02
- Corsair XMS PC 3500 256MB RAM
More and more PC3500 review are coming in and this time the OCIA has a very well documented work that you migh find
here while more links are waiting here
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10/18/02
- OCZ PC3500 256MB DDR Memory
Irish friends from TechSeekers just released a complete review of this OCZ DDR433 with a bitter conclusion:
"The module does seems to be better suited to a good P4
system as insanely high speeds are needed for Athlons to
fully utilise what the PC3500 module has to offer"
.
Read the whole
here and check for more reviews here
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10/18/02
- Gigabyte GA-7VAXP KT400 board review
ASCII24 has a short review in plain English (thanks to Babelfish) and it's
here. More 7VAXP reviews are also waiting for you at our Special page here
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10/18/02
- VAIO RXA842 Desktop with XP 2400+
Sony has this very nice PC with DVD, CDRW, 512MB PC2100 mem, 80GB HD, on board LAN and a full blast Athlon XP 2400+ all for 999.99$ without monitor.
Here
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10/18/02
- Clawhammer will be DT 3000+
We once released a story
here saying that Hammer will be released at a rating of 3000+ with a name of ST and it's almost confirmed. According to the confidential roadmap we have here, Clawhammer (in yellow) to be release during Q1 03 will be called DT with a rating of 3000+ and more... Good job Brokersjack!
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10/18/02
- Newisys 4U & 8U Opteron board ready!
Paul Hales at the inquirer
here is telling us about a post at InvestissorHub from someone named wbmw who just went to MPF 2002: "Apparently, they have 4P and 8P designs ready as well... ...The thermals of the design will support up to 5GHz operation". Read that post here
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