The Silent Release of the 740G
Some weeks ago AMD quietly introduced a new motherboard part without many people noticing. The 740G was not released to make some big waves as the previous 780G did, or the very…
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Author: Josh Walrath
AMD and the 790GX
A few days ago AMD officially released the 790GX chip combined with the brand new SB750 southbridge. This combination is aimed at pleasing enthusiasts around the globe, and the products that were…
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Intel’s Larrabee Architecture
Before 2006 Larrabee was known only as a state park in Washington,
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Auzentech, Asus, and C-Media: As the CMI-8788 Turns
In Q1 of 2007 Auzentech announced the upcoming availability of the eagerly anticipated X-Meridian. This was a top end sound card with tremendous features, unique engineering, and sound quality that was promised…
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First Glimpse of AMD’s 45nm Phenom
A little while back in one of the latest podcasts we had talked about how we have not seen all that many working 45nm Phenom samples floating around. In fact, at that…
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AMD Phenom 9350e: A Tale of Woe and Despair
Today is the launch of the 9150e and 9350e Phenom processors, as well as the new Black Edition 9950. The "e" series of chips are rated at a nice 65 watts, and…
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NVIDIA, PhysX, and the “C” Word
A certain article was published on the web claiming that NVIDIA was cheating on their 3D Mark Vantage scores by using a special driver which enabled GPU physics…
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NVIDIA GT200: Moving Away from Just a GPU
While the GTX 280 is a wonderful card
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AMD’s 75 watt Quad Core Opterons
Last week AMD made an announcement that made the rounds, but was not reported as being terribly important. After having read it, and thought about it some more, the release actually says…
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AMD Phenom versus Athlon X2: Something Old, Something New…
It is not much of a stretch to say that AMD may have been a tad bit aggressive to pursue a monolithic quad core architecture while still using their aging 65…
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VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 GDDR4 512 MB Review
Previously I have reviewed the VisionTek HD 3850, which is the more budget oriented RV670 based part from VisionTek. In it I had explored the
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