AMD Continues Multi-Core Momentum...

Subject: Processors | February 23, 2005 - 06:39 PM | Joe White
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- February 23, 2005 --After garnering rave reviews for its multi-core server and workstation demos at LinuxWorld last week, AMD (NYSE: AMD) gave an encore performance today by demonstrating a dual-core AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, manufactured on 90nm technology. The demonstration took place at the company's Sunnyvale facilities. AMD has now publicly showcased its broad portfolio of multi-core AMD64 technology, ranging from server and workstation to client systems.

AMD To Present At Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium

Subject: General Tech | February 23, 2005 - 06:38 PM | Joe White
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SUNNYVALE, CA -- February 17, 2005 --AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that AMD Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert J. Rivet will present at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium at 3:30 p.m. MT (5:30 p.m. ET) on Thursday, February 24, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. Forward-looking and other material information may be discussed during the presentation.

Intel Desktop Processors Get 64-Bit Support

Subject: Processors | February 23, 2005 - 06:35 PM | Joe White
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 21, 2005 - Intel Corporation today announced the availability of five new processors for desktop computers that deliver entertainment and IT benefits for consumers and businesses. When coupled with the widely adopted Intel® 925/915 Express chipset family, the processors can help enable improved performance and more rapid response times for computing platforms.

New Embedded Processors To Be Foundation For Devices...

Subject: Processors | February 23, 2005 - 06:32 PM | Joe White
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EMBEDDED WORLD, NUREMBERG, Germany, Feb. 22, 2005 -- Intel Corporation today announced that recently introduced processors and a corresponding chipset are now available for embedded market segments such as communications infrastructure, industrial box and panel PCs and in-car infotainment. Today's announcement demonstrates Intel's commitment to provide modular standards-based building blocks such as embedded processors to a wide variety of industries in addition to providing cost-effective and faster time to market solutions.

Athlon 64 Dual Core to Debut

Subject: Processors | February 23, 2005 - 02:31 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Looks like AMD is showing that they TOO are on the ball for desktop dual-cores very soon.

CHIP FIRM AMD showed off a dual core Athlon 64 chip at its Sunnyvale plant yesterday, as the noise caused by the battle between the two firms, sometimes compared to Tweedledee and Tweedledum, becomes a blinking cacophony and racket.

Intel encouraged its staff at a sales conference last week to go "ga ga" for Smithfield, its desktop bi-cameral microprocessor which it is expected to show off at a Developer Conference in California next week.

ATI Offers A Sneak Peak at 512 MB Graphics

Subject: Graphics Cards | February 23, 2005 - 01:46 PM | Ryan Shrout
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ATI Invites Gamers to Tweak Their PCs With the PROs and Get a Sneak Peek at the World's First 512MB Gaming Card

ATI sponsors the Ultimate LAN at Texas Gaming Festival

MARKHAM, ON

— February 23, 2005 — Gamers from around the world are invited to join ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) and its marketing partners at the Ultimate LAN, held in association with the Texas Gaming Festival in Dallas, February 25th to 27th.

VIA Ships 100 Millionth Chipset for AMD Platform

Subject: Chipsets | February 23, 2005 - 01:44 PM | Ryan Shrout
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VIA Ships 100 Millionth Chipset for AMD Platform

Long-standing partnership between VIA and AMD achieves historic milestone, looks to the next 100 million with the advancement of technologies on the AMD64 platform and beyond

Taipei, Taiwan, 23 February 2005 - VIA Technologies, Inc, the leading supplier of core-logic chipsets for AMD (NYSE: AMD) processor platforms, today announced the unique achievement of 100 million core-logic chipsets for AMD Athlon™ processors.

Air cooled goodness for your CPU, GPU, HDD & More

Subject: Cases and Cooling | February 23, 2005 - 12:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Arctic Cooling is keeping up the quality you would expect from them, with their Freezer 4, follow the link to MODTHEBOX and find out more.   If your CPU is already in a comfortable temperature range, consider treating your video card to new thermal paste and heatsink, or just extend the life of your hard drives by actively cooling them.

"The second stage of cooling added into the Freezer 4 is the inclusion of four copper heat pipes that are interconnected to a solid copper base.

Mobile GPU Shootout

Subject: Mobile | February 23, 2005 - 11:19 AM | Sean Pelletier
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ExtremeTech has rounded up the best mobile graphics modules available today and set them head to head through a series of benchmarks. From the "original" GeForce Go 6800 based on DDR1 memory to ATI's flagship Mobility Radeon X800 and even the new GeForce Go 6800 using DDR3, there are sure to be some impressive benchmark numbers.

In the end, the winner of this contest depends on the matchup.

512MB Graphics Are Here

Subject: Graphics Cards | February 23, 2005 - 10:54 AM | Sean Pelletier
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Just as the pain of shelling out $500 for a 6800 Ultra or X850XT begins to wear off, both ATI and NVIDIA have announced that they have 512MB cards up and running.

AMD to Demo Dual-Core Desktop CPU!

Subject: Processors | February 23, 2005 - 10:46 AM | Sean Pelletier
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With news of Intel's dual-core desktop CPU fresh in our minds, AMD has just announced that it will be showcasing its own dual-core CPU. Do we all need dual-core CPU's in our systems? Proof will be in the benchmarks per usual. Theresa DeOnis, desktop brand manager for AMD, makes an interesting point below which has been highlighted below.

Putting two cores on a chip will allow a computer to perform two tasks at once, she said, or run specially tweaked applications faster.

ATI Prepping New-Hardware Showcase

Subject: Graphics Cards | February 22, 2005 - 07:03 PM | Sean Pelletier
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As the end of the month approaches and the Texas Gaming Festival approaches, ATI has begun sharing a few tidbits of information regarding some new hardware they're going to showcase at the event. Rumors are floating around that people will see a 512MB card, although no solid confirmation has been given.

DFI LANParty SLI @ HardOCP

Subject: Motherboards | February 22, 2005 - 06:55 PM | Sean Pelletier
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The guys over at HardOCP have managed to get their hands on DFI's new LANParty nForce4 SLI board and have run it through its paces. Overall, it looks like DFI's flagship motherboard for the AMD-platform is packed with a solid bundle and exceptional performance. If you're in the market for a new mobo or just want to see some crazy benchmark scores, head over and take a look!

DFI has a great product in the DFI nF4 SLI-DR, but it is not without a few very small shortcomings.

New Shuttle nForce4 SFF

Subject: Systems | February 22, 2005 - 06:49 PM | Sean Pelletier
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Shuttle has just released their new SN25P based on the nForce4 chipset. For such a small system, this new rig packs an impressive punch. Don't take my word for it, as there are reviews at both SFF Tech as well as at Tech-Report.

A small offering from Enermax & More

Subject: Cases and Cooling | February 21, 2005 - 12:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Enermax has jumped into the micro-ATX game with the Venus series.  It's a smart looking black case, about a foot high, with far more cooling than you might expect from a small sized case.  Read Xtreme Resources review here!

"With the enthusiast community continually striving for more powerful, faster hardware, and the industry providing, the idea of smaller seems to get lost in the shuffle.

Two Radiators and some Clear Goo

Subject: Cases and Cooling | February 18, 2005 - 12:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Quiet week for phase change.  A1 Electronics has 2 radiators by SilverProp, a companyyou may not have heard of, but that does good work.  Also the new improved drinkable Fluid XP+!  I'm not saying you should drink it, only that it likely won't make you sick.  Maybe overclocking and kids shouldn't mix, but you can get non-toxic, non-conductive fluid, if you feel the need.

Our good friends Bacata kindly sent us two SilverProp radiators for computer water hea

A long month

Subject: Editorial | February 18, 2005 - 12:00 PM | Ryan Shrout
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If you have been following the site at all this year, you'll have noticed that since the last day in January, my name has not been attached to any articles. My sincere thanks go to Jon and Lee for keeping some fresh content on PC Perspective. Of course, this is not to say I haven't been working at all in these past two weeks, just that it isn't "overt" work that I am doing. The grunt work that needs doing is getting done, and thanks to Joe, very soon we should have that new design I promised a couple months back. I am really looking forward to it.

ATI rolls out new notebook chipset

Subject: Mobile | February 17, 2005 - 04:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Graphics chip maker ATI on Thursday rolled out a new chipset for notebook PCs with Advanced Micro Devices' processors.