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AMD Barcelona Launched - Previewed

Marco C — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:04:15 GMT

Hello All,

AMD has officially taken the wraps off their new series of Opteron processors today and have released their first native quad-core processor to the wild. Welcome to the jungle Barcelona.

We cover specific architecture details, processor model numbering, speeds and feeds of the new Barcelona core Opertons and even offer a glimpse of what's on the horizon with AMD’s Shanghai and Sandtiger cores.

Here's a Snip:

"In a move reminiscent of their campaign from long ago to debunk the "megahertz myth" with processor performance rating-type model numbers, AMD is announcing a new power consumption metric called "ACP" or "Average CPU Power". AMD claims historically that they took a much more conservative approach with providing measurements for traditional TDP (Thermal Design Power) ratings, opting to list worst case, maximum numbers versus Intel's average or "typical" rating guidelines. As a result, AMD's processor architecture, at least on paper, appeared significantly more power hungry than it was in practice."

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AMD 690 Series Chipset Update

Marco C — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:41:45 GMT

Hello Everyone,

Back in February of this year, we took a look at the AMD 690 series chipset and praised it for its affordability, power efficiency, and strong performance relative to its competition. AMD has since taken the 690 series chipset and optimized it further through some BIOS and software level enhancements that result in marked performance gains in a number of situations and also introduce some new features. We've got a motherboard from Gigabyte on the test bed that feature the latest updates and thought we'd compare its performance to the unaltered board we evaluated when the chipset was first introduced to see just how much the platform's performance has changed. Head on over to the site and take a look...

AMD 690 Series Chipset Update

AMD Consumer Electronics Event in NYC

Marco C — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:22:53 GMT

Hello Everyone,

AMD hosted a small gathering in the Penthouse at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York City yesterday, to showcase some of their existing products and technologies, to show off a few products built by their partners, and to demo some products due to be released in the coming months. We attended the event and snapped some photos of the various demo stations and thought we'd share them with you all. We suspect the shots and info regarding the quad-core Phenom-powered system running John Woo’s ‘Stranglehold’ will be of interest, as will the slick notebooks, HTPCs, and hand-held devices…

AMD Consumer Electronics Event in NYC

ATI TV Wonder 600 USB

Marco C — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:03:26 GMT

Hello Everyone,

We’ve just a posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and image quality of AMD’s brand new ATI TV Wonder 600 USB. Here’s a snip from the piece:

“At first glance, the ATI TV Wonder 600 USB resembles more a USB flash drive than a TV tuner. The tuner is roughly the size of a credit card and has an antenna / cable input on one side and a USB 2.0 connection on the other. The USB connector is hidden by a cap that is removed when you are going to install the tuner into your PC.”

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ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCI Express

Marco C — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:40:38 GMT

Hello Everyone,

We’ve just a posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and image quality of AMD’s brand new ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCI Express. Here’s a snip from the piece:

“The most obvious physical change to the ATI TV Wonder 650 PCIe is of course the fact that the card now uses the PCI Express interface. The ATI TV Wonder 650 PCIe has kept its half-height PCI design, which allows it to fit easily into low profile HTPC systems.”

ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo PCI Express