“ For those of you AMD Athlon FX fans, it does not look that we will see much core speed scaling in the coming year, although we are hearing rumors of a possible 250Mhz FSB Continue reading “More CPU Facts & Fantasy”.
“Some peculiarities of the PlayStation 3 graphics processing unit developed at NVIDIA Corp. showed up on the web. It appears, that the visual processing unit will merge NVIDIA?s present and future generation architectures and will Continue reading “PlayStation 3 GPU: NV40 and NV50 Hybrid with XDR DRAM, Says Report”.
“ CHIP GIANT Intel is briefing the US press about the introduction of its Sonoma microprocessor for notebooks. VP Anand Chandrasekher, VP of Intel’s mobile group, told the Wall St Journal that it will use Continue reading “Intel pre-announces Centrino Sonoma”.
“ THERE’S ONLY one difference between AMD64 processors and EM64T processors, according to Intel documents seen by the INQUIRER. Referring to its competitor – by which Intel means AMD – the chip giant makes the Continue reading “Intel: EM64T and AMD64 the same, practically”.
“ Digit-life ponders on the ins and outs of 3DMark 2005, which together with Sandra is slowly pushing away the Winstone Brothers. DL articles are generally, very documented; and so is this one. Read it Continue reading “3DMark 05 dissected”.
“ DFI, a Taiwan-based motherboard maker, has started delivering its Pentium M motherboard, the 855GME-MGF, for desktops to its channels in the US, Japan and Europe, although not in large volumes, said a spokesperson for Continue reading “Taiwan makers start delivering Pentium M motherboards”.
“ SOURCES SAID Intel is likely to introduce its 6XX family of desktop processors in week nine of 2005. As we’ve revealed before, the first processors will be at speeds of between 3GHz to 3.6GHz. Continue reading “Intel introduces iWindscreenWiper?, iChef? and iFlexyDesktopMobos?”.
“It has come to our attention that RAID 0 has recently come under fire by some of the major PC enthusiast publications. StorageReview.com and Anandtech.com have both published articles purporting that RAID 0 is unnecessary Continue reading “RAID 0 Under Fire”.
“Many Abit motherboard users didn’t have a quite so merry christmas this year according to the Abit support forums. There seems to be a problem with the new Abit AV8 motherboard for the socket 939 Continue reading “ABIT AV8 Under Fire”.
“DDR2 memory tests, which we have performed earlier, showed that its higher latency is exactly the reason why it gets defeated by the regular DDR SDRAM. However, now the situation is changing. The leading memory Continue reading “DDR2 vs. DDR: Revenge Gained”.
“While Intel?s code-named Smithfield microprocessor set to be released in mid-2005 will open the doors to dual-core computing on desktops, the mainstream market will only get chips with two processing engine in 2006, along with Continue reading “Presler ? Intel?s Mainstream Dual-Core Desktop Chip”.
“ HKEPC, one of the leading chinese PC websites has a review of the new kid on the block, the Geforce 6200 TC. It pitted a 32-bit version of it against a 64-bit one, a Continue reading “Dual everything PC makes for dual wonders”.
“ SOURCES TOLD the INQ this week the likely power specifications and other specifications of dual core Opterons AMD will release in 2005. AMD has already sampled some dual core chips to a select few Continue reading “Dual core Opteron speeds, power revealed”.
“ A WEB SITE has published a list of products and projects Microsoft is readying for 2005. The report is lengthy and according to Steven Bink, who runs website bink.nu, the list is based both Continue reading “Microsoft readies burst of 2005 products”.
“ ATI TOLD US ALL about its Hyper memory marchitecture quite some time back. Nvidia was the first to present its Turbo Cache marchitecture but ATI’s approach is slightly different. ATI told us first about Continue reading “ATI to introduce X300 with Hyper Memory”.