CPUs
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
Socket 939 Chipsets: Motherboard Performance & PCI/AGP Locks
The new Dual-Channel Socket 939 has landed. How do VIA K8T800 PRO and nVidia nForce3-250Gb Ultra perform when driving the new processor? We also take a closer look...
20 by Wesley Fink on 6/2/2004AMD Athlon 64 3800+ and FX-53: The First 939 CPUs
Today marks the launch of the long awaited Socket 939 platform for AMD's Athlon 64 line of processors. With 939 comes dual channel memory controllers for unbuffered DDR RAM...
38 by Derek Wilson on 6/1/2004AMD Update: Following in Intel's Naming Footsteps
FX-57 shows up on the AMD roadmaps, FX-55 wattages, and AMD's shift to product naming. If you thought AMD was surprisingly quiet lately wait till you see their...
27 by Kristopher Kubicki on 5/18/2004nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400Gb: Fast LAN, Firewall, SATA, RAID for Athlon XP
nVidia brings the features of their innovative nForce3-250Gb chipset for the Athlon 64 to the nForce2 for Athlon XP. Now you can get on-chip Gigabit LAN, nVidia Firewall...
13 by Wesley Fink on 5/13/2004VIA K8T800 PRO: PCI/AGP Lock and 1000 HyperTransport for Athlon 64
VIA finally adds PCI/AGP lock to a PRO version of the K8T800. The K8T800 PRO is also VIA's first chipset with 1000 HyperTransport. While this version is...
15 by Wesley Fink on 5/6/2004ATI 9100 IGP PRO: Optimized for Prescott
Today, ATI raises the bar with their second generation chipset for Pentium 4. We also found some interesting results when a board is designed to work first and...
24 by Wesley Fink on 5/3/2004AMD Athlon 64 2800+: A Cheaper Newcastle
The Athlon 64 platform is a very good option when it comes to performance computing, but when price is a highly important factor, the Athlon XP line can look...
20 by Derek Wilson on 4/27/2004ATI Update: Coming to an AMD desktop near you
ATI is finally breaking into the AMD desktop corelogic. Perhaps NVIDIA and VIA have some new competition?
8 by Kristopher Kubicki on 4/16/2004Tech Update: AMD core changes on the horizon
Intel might be changing the naming conventions, but AMD is changing the whole core. Here comes Newcastle...
18 by Kristopher Kubicki on 4/16/2004CPU Heat Comparison: How Hot is Prescott?
There has been a lot of speculation about the total heat dissipation of Prescott in comparison to Northwood. Obviously it is a hotter chip, but what kind of heat...
48 by Derek Wilson on 4/16/2004Alderwood and Nocona Woes; Intel Updates
Complications have delayed i925X and 64bit enabled 800FSB Xeons.
29 by Kristopher Kubicki on 4/11/2004AT News Update: Socket 775 Processor Names
Update April 8, 2004: Check out the update Intel Product name forecasts.
33 by Kristopher Kubicki on 4/8/2004nForce3-250 - Part 2: Taking Athlon 64 to the Next Level
In Part 1, we took a look at the features of nForce3-250; Part 2 takes a closer look at performance. Does the performance of the new nF3-250 make...
46 by Wesley Fink on 3/29/2004nForce3-250 - Part 1: Taking Athlon 64 to the Next Level
nVidia has reinvented the nForce3 chipset with their latest nForce3-250Gb. Does the new chipset establish nF3-250 as the new market leader for Athlon 64? Part 1 takes...
71 by Wesley Fink on 3/23/2004The Athlon 64 FX-53: AMD's Next Enthusiast Part
The Athlon 64 FX series gets a speed bump. We take a look at just what the 200MHz (9.1%) speed increase translates to in terms of performance and value...
30 by Derek Wilson on 3/18/2004AT News Update: Centrino and Xeon 2004 Roadmaps
Does Pentium M excite you too? This week we have some upcoming information on the release schedule for Dothan, as well as Itanium 2 and Xeon release dates.
6 by Kristopher Kubicki on 3/13/2004AT News Update: Removing the MHz Myth, Again
With Dothan and Socket T on the way, Intel's newest marketing decision may be something right out of AMD's playbook.
31 by Kristopher Kubicki on 3/12/2004AT News Update: Athlon 64 name revisions
Or how I learned to stop worrying and let AMD change the rating on its upcoming Socket 939 processors. Updated roadmaps inside.
12 by Kristopher Kubicki on 3/3/2004AT News Update: Grantsdale's Memory Strategies
Our sources say the DDR2 transition won't be as clear cut Intel would like it to be....
16 by Kristopher Kubicki on 2/27/2004PCI Speed and Overclocking: A Closer Look at A64 and P4 Chipsets
One of the more contentious areas in Athlon 64 reviews is whether the PCI/AGP bus is really locked when you increase the CPU speed. This is also a...
26 by Wesley Fink on 2/16/2004
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