[Pc_Support] AMD goodies

Damien McKenna dmckenna at thelimucompany.com
Thu Aug 4 20:55:50 EDT 2005


Lots of AMD news.
 
First off, a new lower-cost dual-core Athlon-64 that out-paces
everything Intel has at the price-point, retailing for around $350.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2484
 
A review of a Tyan's K8WE NF4 Pro SLI dual-CPU motherboard based on the
nVidia nForce Professional chipsets and retailing for around $430-460:
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-296-1.htm
 
An upcoming motherboard from Iwill supports 64 *gigabytes* of RAM on a
dual-CPU Opteron board:
http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20050729PR208.html
 
A review of ATI's new Athlon-64 chipset:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2481
 
AMD's Opterons CPUs are in use at ILM and LucasArt's new headquarters in
San Francisco:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~100323
,00.html
 
AMD has launched what seems to be an entry-level Opteron CPU series:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~100324
,00.html

Fun stuff.

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