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Earlier news here ======================================= 11/05/02 - Soltek SL-75FRV KT400 board review Dean Nottis at 3dXtreme is making the second 75DRV review of the day and after running lot of benchmarks he ends up with a better conclusion: "The Soltek SL-75FRV is an astounding value offering a bundle of software, CPU thermal protection,AGP 8x, USB 2.0, overclockability, pc3200 support". Read the whole review here and check our SL-75FRV Page here ======================================= 11/05/02 - Man with a hammer Nice piece of PR from Business 2.0 where a long report relates AMD's adventure leading to Hammer's creation and the challenge the company is facing: "AMD watched with glee. While Intel was reinventing the wheel, AMD quietly decided in 99 to go ahead with a 64bit chip of its own. But in part because of greater budget constraints, the company placed the opposite bet". Read here ======================================= 11/05/02 - Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW+ 760-MPX review Long and good look from 2CPU to this dual board from Gigabyte and today the baby loaded with 2 MP 2000+ is facing Dual Xeon at 2GHz. The results won't disappoint you and they are all waiting for you here while more reviews are also quietly stored here ======================================= 11/05/02 - Asus distances itself from ASRock subs. Mike Magee at the inquirer has an Asus' memo that was sent to Asian system integrator seeking to distance itself from its own child ASRock. The memo goes as far as mentioning possible legal action if both name were too closely associated by anybody willing to use Asus fame to promote ASRock product. Read the strangeness here ======================================= 11/05/02 - Anandtech goes West Anand Lal Shimpi went to West Coast to visit Shuttle, nVidia, Via and SiS, and brought back some amazing revelations from Shuttle about upcoming XP 3200+!!! "Shuttle had to redesign their heatsink/heatpipe setup for the nForce2 product in order to accommodate the upcoming Athlon XP 3200+ which is fully supported by this platform. Read the whole here ======================================= 11/05/02 - ASRock has USB 2.0 with KT266A! Xbitlabs here has the scoop. ASRock, the Asus subsidiary created to eat ECS cake around the world, has new unofficial VT6201/VT6202 USB 2.0 controllers on the KT266A powered A7VT2 as confirmed by the German retailer situated here. More ASRock infos here ======================================= 11/05/02 - More Hammer photos + mega AMD LAN Our Italian amico AMDPlanet has more impressive photos from SMAU 2002, the big Milano exhibition where AMD powered a mega LAN party of 1200 XP 2200+ and 15 MP 2000+ servers. It's wonderful, it's wonderful (thanks to Paolo Conte) and it's here! ======================================= 11/05/02 - HyperTransport simplifying design PDF AMD Technology Evangelism department just published an interesting document describing the inner secrets of HyperTransport Technology design with all the features that make it so successful today like tunneling capability allowing the chaining of 32 devices, reduced system design complexity, low EMI, and much more here ======================================= 11/05/02 - Soltek SL-75FRV KT400 board review Hans Chang at OCNZ has made a complete review of the Soltek KT400 board and the conclusion is a shock: "The performance level is just shocking. 75FRV is up to 6% slower than the Gigabyte's VAXP in office applications and up to 18% in gaming situation. With this kind of performance level and mediocre overclocking feature, I find it hard to recommend this board, even for a system board"... Read the full report here and check at our SL-75FRV Special other reviewers' opinions here ======================================= 11/05/02 - DDR400 PC3200 reviews DDR400 is getting more popular with reviews popping up all over the web. AMD Zone first, where Jeffery Haluska is testing OCZ and fight with courage the dirty rumors while the second, PC-Extreme has an extreme fight with Xtreme meeting the Corsair's hook in a deadly battle. Read OCZ here and Xtreme/Corsair here ======================================= 11/05/02 - AMD improve yield with homegrown tech ElectronicNews has the story on how AMD with homegrown unique technology called Advanced Process Control (APC) has dramatically improved yield: "AMD has noticed are reduced costs in wafer manufacturing and a smaller number of test wafers that have to run through all of the steps". Read the report here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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