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    Quad FX on sale

    I'm not sure if it's a price error or something but AMD Quad FX CPUs are remarkably cheap at newegg, though the motherboard is still around $430 bucks. The FX-70 is $350, the FX-72 is $450 and the FX-74 is $550. I'd assume these are in matched pairs, as AMD will not be selling these...
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    AMD to cut Quad FX prices

    The Inquirer reports that AMD is set to cut Quad FX across the board by $100. This means the flamethrower FX-74 set will cost $899 (no doubt to offset the power-draw expense), the FX-72 will cost $699 and the FX-70 will cost $499. If the parts that actually ship have a better power draw than...
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    AMD 4x4 Preview

    Here. Interesting info, though some of it seems to be in conflict with what we've heard before. The pricing looks particularly interesting. If the 2.6GHz parts are indeed $599 then 4x4 could be quite a decent alternative to Kentsfield. The motherboards will, obviously, still be a bit more...
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    FX-70, 72 and 74 Prices

    AMD said that you'd be able to buy a pair of CPUs for well below $1000... so now we know that "well below" means $1 less than one grand. Prices, according to the Inquirer: FX-70: Two 2.6GHz Dual Core CPUs with 1MB L2 per core - $999 FX-72: Two 2.6GHz Dual Core CPUs with 1MB L2 per core -...
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    SPCR Turion 64 MT-ML power draw comparison.

    I checked Silent PC Review (one of my favorite websites, though they don't update all that much) and found that they wrote an article about the Turion 64. They compared the power consumption (the most "controversial" part of all the reviews I've seen) of the MT-34, MT-40, ML-40, ML-44 and a...
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    TG: "12 socket AM2 chips at launch"...

    The article is Here... Here're a few highlights: The DDR2 mem controller will be tweaked for 333MHz operation (DDR667) possibly using Cas3 latency (Intel currently uses Cas4 for DDR667 according to the article). Supposedly the following CPUs will launch: Dual-core FX-62 2.8GHz...
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    Athlon 64 FX-60 preview...

    OK, here's a Chinese preview I found while browsing the net instead of working. I don't have time to read it (I read chinese very very slowly) but looking at the pictures I can say that it'll be a 2.6GHz, dual-core, 1MB L2/core part. They run it on single-channel for some reason but I'd guess...
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    A question about DDR2/DDR3.

    I suppose I should have asked this in the memory forum but I'm more interested in the implications this would have on CPU technology, more than the memory tech itself. I read somewhere (I don't remember where, by the way) that DDR3 was made to be pin-compatible with DDR2, meaning that you'd...
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    s939 Opteron 144 "Review"

    I dont know if anyone else has posted (or linked to this) but here it is: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73384&page=1&pp=25 Petr at XtremeSystems reviewed an Opeton 144 (s939) and overclocked it to 2.8GHz. Not bad for a CPU that will supposedly be cheaper than the A64...
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    Yonah Cinebench Benchmark

    ComputerBase released some Yonah and Sossaman benchmarks. If you're interested you can find them Here. Though they only did Cinebench, it does show the scaling compared to Dothan's and single core Sossamans. Overall I'd say it looks pretty good. We see very close to a 2x performance increase...
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    Opteron for socket 939

    This may not be the most interesting sounding news, but I wonder the new opteron 100 series will work with current 939 mobos and, if so, whether the socket 939 Opteron (san diego) ends up being a good overclocker. The $125 price tag on the 1.8GHz 144 makes it sound interesting, to say the least.