nForce 5 and AM2 Part III

May 25 2006 @ 03:47PM by jimmy

Phoronix

Planet 3DNow!

RegHW

Short Media

Sudhian

T-Break

techPowerUp!

The TechReport

Trusted Reviews

Viper Lair

VR-Zone

X-bit labs

 

nForce 5 and AMD2 Part II

May 25 2006 @ 03:46PM by jimmy

li>FiringSquad

HardOCP

Hardware-Mag

Hardware Secrets

HardwareZone

Hartware.net

Hexus

Hot Hardware

Lost Circuits

Motherboards.org

PC Modding Malaysia

PC Perspective

 

nForce 5 and AM2 Part I

May 25 2006 @ 03:45PM by jimmy

Previews have also been posted at the following web sites some of which include AMD's new Socket AM2 CPU:

• AMD Zone


• AnandTech


• bit-tech.net


• Digit-life


• ExtremeTech


• Guru3D

 

Socket AM2 Athlon 64 FX-62 & Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Processor Review

May 25 2006 @ 03:28PM by jimmy

This article will take you through the ins and outs of two of the highest end SKUs currently in the AM2 Desktop line-up, the Athlon 64 FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5000+.

Here's a Snip:

"The launch of the Athlon 64 FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5000+ processors, while impressive in their own right, is almost secondary to the future potential of Socket AM2. Certainly, it is nice to see the higher performance and improved specifications of the latest processors, but it's more a horizontal transition, where the Socket AM2 processors are faster than similarly-clocked Socket 939 models"

Full Review@Sharky

 

ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 Review

May 25 2006 @ 03:13PM by jimmy

VR-Zone brings you the exclusive review of the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe with that beautiful heatpipe chipset cooler, based on the new and orgasmic Nvidia Nforce 590 SLI chipset.

 

AM2 Chipsets: nForce 500 and CrossFire Xpress 3200

May 25 2006 @ 03:10PM by jimmy

The new CPUs from AMD support DDR2 and use the new AM2 socket. New chipsets from ATI and Nvidia offer more tweaks than ever, but the real action for most users lies in the new southbridge chips.

See more details@Extremetech

 

VIA Announces Comprehensive AMD Chipset Support for Socket AM2 Transition

May 25 2006 @ 03:06PM by jimmy

Press Release:

VIA Announces Comprehensive AMD Chipset Support for Socket AM2 Transition

VIA delivers full line of solutions for upcoming range of AMD products including the latest AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-62 and AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 5000+ dual-core processors

Taipei, Taiwan, 23 May 2006 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced top-to-bottom chipset solutions supporting the transition to socket AM2 by AMD (NYSE: AMD).

To accommodate the latest platform features and rising system bandwidth requirements, AMD's transition to socket AM2 will enable a new wave of innovation on AMD64 based systems featuring AMD Virtualization and high-performance DDR2 memory. Supporting this transition, VIA offers a wide range of chipset solutions that are fully compatible with socket AM2 platforms, including the VIA K8M890, ideal for Windows Vista(tm)-ready systems, and the VIA K8T900 performance chipset with dual X8 PCI Express support.

"VIA is proud to continue our strong collaboration with AMD and support their continued leadership with the acclaimed line of AMD Athlon(tm) 64 and AMD Sempron(tm) processors," commented Chewei Lin, Vice President of Product Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. "With leading top-to-bottom solutions for the AMD platform, VIA is well positioned to strengthen our standing as a premier supplier of solutions for the AMD platform."

 

AMD Headed Towards 20% Server Share

May 25 2006 @ 03:03PM by jimmy

The Inquirer reports that AMD is heading for 20% server market share.

"We have achieved greater than 20 percent market share as of the end of Q1 in servers, allowing us to leverage that success into the traditional client space," he leveraged.

 

AMD Aiming At 15% Marketshare In Notebooks

May 25 2006 @ 03:00PM by jimmy

Digitimes reports that AMD has a goal of 15% marketshare in laptops for this year.

The sources revealed that over half of Hewlett Packard (HP) notebooks use AMD processors, and these models are chiefly for the European and American markets. For Acer, the AMD proportion is 35%, the sources added.

 

AMD Gains x86 Server Share

May 25 2006 @ 02:57PM by jimmy

Electronic News reports that AMD has gained more share in x86 servers.

AMD also pointed out that it now owns 48.1 percent of the U.S. four-way x86 server space and 36 percent of the worldwide market for those servers. Dell signed on as an OEM for AMD?s four-way servers last week after years as an Intel-only OEM.

 

AGEIA PhysX and Ghost Recon - Gaming at the next level

May 25 2006 @ 02:49PM by jimmy

To this day we all love the realism in games with killer graphics which is the main reason why so many of us would be considering buying high end VGA cards. One thing that has been missing all these years is true real world phsyics and this is where the AGEIA Physx card enters to fill in the gap.

"PhysX by AGEIA" is designed to take your PC gaming experience to the next level by introducing hardware driven physics."

Let's take a closer look

 

A Huge Trend in the Gaming Industry

May 10 2006 @ 03:45PM by jimmy

People who are into gaming are in luck. With something like 144,000 people employed in the industry and game sales of almost $8 billion, the video game industry is a force to be reckoned with.

"The authors found that direct and indirect contributions of entertainment software to the nation's gross national output, a measure of the value of goods and services produced in an economy, exceeded $18 billion in 2004 -- a figure they said would steadily increase as the industry grows."

More on the impact of the gaming industry

 

Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Review

May 10 2006 @ 03:29PM by jimmy

Lost Circuits has posted a review of the Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe. This seems to be one of the more popular ATi chipset which Asus had reported a substantial sale.

ATI's line of chipset is the latest buzz in the menagerie of core logic. An insane overclocking potential, combined with 32 PCIe lanes dedicated entirely to graphics processing are the main charms enticing the novice along with the hard-boiled overclocking fanatic. Crossfire in the purest form includiung the possibility of using two ATI X1900 XT processors complements the platform by taking advantage of a 16 MB/sec path for feeding the graphics monsters with data and inter-GPU communication for coordination of the different workloads.

Full Review

 

System Buying Guide

May 10 2006 @ 03:22PM by jimmy

Tech Report has posted their system guide for May.

Thanks to AMD's price cuts, we were able to bump up our previous system's dual Opteron 270s to Opteron 275s and save $400 in the process. The Opteron 275s have two 2.2GHz cores, each with 1MB of cache. Added up, we have the equivalent of four desktop Athlon 64 3700+ processors, all able to work simultaneously. Any kind of multitasking should scream with this machine, and let's not even talk about multithreaded apps.

Sadly, Intel is out of the picture on the workstation front. Current dual-core Xeons are just too hot, too power-hungry, and too slow to compete against AMD's dual-core Opterons.

 

AMD VP sees more Opteron growth and a Dell win

May 10 2006 @ 03:19PM by jimmy

The Register has posted an interview with Henri Richard of AMD.

"El Reg: Our major issue with AMD at this point is your reluctance to talk about what is coming down the road. You were more than happy to talk about 64-bit extensions early and dual-core parts early. Why aren't you being more specific about what you have to do to counter Intel's improvements?

HR: First off, because we don't feel as much as the outside world does a need to counter. Right now it is more asking Intel what they are going to do to counter AMD than the opposite.

We are in front and gaining share.

 

AMD Still Stuck in the Dell

May 05 2006 @ 08:38PM by jimmy

The Motley Fool reports on AMD and Dell. What a topic.

Maybe it's me, but I don't see any reason to let the speculative fires burn again till Dell reports a quarter in which it loses substantial server market share. That day may be coming, of course. (Certainly, AMD is putting enough pressure on Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to make it possible.) But I'm willing to wait. If (when?) Dell loses ground, I'll be ready to write about how the long romance between Intel and Dell has gone sour. Until then, let's please just call this tech love story what it is -- a marriage that needs work.

 

Intel ViiV vs. AMD Live!

May 04 2006 @ 07:47PM by jimmy

Everything you need to know about Intel ViiV and AMD Live! standards for digital entertainment PCs and the difference between them.

"A digital entertainment computer proposed by Intel ViiV and AMD Live! platforms is in charge of distributing digital content (data, music, movies, photos, etc) to other electronic equipment such as TVs, notebooks, MP3 players and PDAs. This digital entertainment computer should be able to record TV shows, videos, music and photos in DVD or CD."

What's the difference? Let's find out!

 

AMD mulls design style needed beyond 45-nm

May 04 2006 @ 07:40PM by jimmy

EE Times UK talks about AMD looking forward past 45nm designs.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is looking forward to the requirements of system design at the 45-nanometer chip manufacturing node and beyond. And the company is foretelling a need to work at yet higher levels of abstraction in a zone where both the software and hardware for multiple system implementations are generated from high-level design intent.

Full Story

 

Zamora: Quad Core With Shared L3 Cache

May 04 2006 @ 07:36PM by jimmy

Check out this roadmap at PC Watch that shows a roadmap for AMD that includes a 65nm process Zamora quad core CPU that has a shared L3 cache. Perhaps this will be the Z-Ram we have been hearing about. Also shown is Deerhound with 4 cores with shared cache, and Brisbane, Sparta, Tyler, and Sherman all on 65nm using revision G. The new core 65nm parts include Zamora, Cadiz, and Greyhound.