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AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+ Review Page 3

Back to Page 2   Benchmarks As noted in the test system setup section, the Athlon 64 3800+ being reviewed is installed on a ASUS A8V motherboard, which is based on VIA’s K8T800 chipset and supports AGP 8x. Unfortunately, after weeks of trying to obtain a faster graphics board, the best AGP card available to […]

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AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+ Review Page 2

Back to Page 1   Features and Pricing The Socket 939 platform has several notable features, first of which is an increased HyperTransport link, which now runs at 1 GHz compared to its previous speed of 800 MHz. HyperTransport is essentially a bus that links to various I/O channels, such as the PCI bus, via […]

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AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+ Review

by John Reynolds   Pins and Latency AMD launched their AMD64 platform last year, introducing 64-bit instruction and addressing first to the business server market with the Opteron processor and subsequently to the consumer desktop market with the Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 processors. These new CPUs quickly garnered gaming enthusiasts’ attention as they demonstrated […]

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Intel 925X Express Chipset and Pentium 4 3.4 EE CPU Review

by John Reynolds   Times Are A-Changin’ The PC is ever-evolving, with new features and technologies brought to market at what feels at times as an almost monthly basis. Yet this constant influx of new technology is in somewhat stark contrast to other aspects of the PC that marches to a decidedly slower pace: form factors, […]

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