11 February 2002, 00:00
The time period between the release of the Athlon XP1800 and this new chip, the 1600Mhz XP1900 can be measured in days. Indeed, the initial AthlonXP range which included the ...
30 January 2002, 00:00
So It seems we need to keep the 137 or higher front (140 is ok but occasional blue screen....) side bus, and go for a bigger multiplier....... But this gives ...
23 January 2002, 00:00
The Duron gets our value performance thumbs up and makes a great processor for a 2nd system or the user on a budget.
7 January 2002, 00:00
Overall it was a pleasure to use, but nothing special, except in the performance. It seems like the extra time spent by Abit has paid off, not in feature count ...
7 January 2002, 00:00
Incredibly fast and incredibly expensive are the buzzwords to take away from this review when thinking about this processor.
21 September 2001, 00:00
It seems that Abit have entered this class of motherboard market later than the others. Epox have had its 8K7A and 8K7A+ boards out for a while and Asus with ...
21 August 2001, 00:00
If two years ago we'd said you would see a budget CPU for under $80, which is at 1GHz, you might've said we were being fanciful...
6 June 2001, 00:00
AMD have recently launched the new core range of the "Athlon 4" or the "Palomino". This already has 2 high breeds on the market one in the form of the ...
6 June 2001, 00:00
As we say every time, AMD have done very well to pull the market around and ever since the launch of the Slot A Athlon they have dominated the market ...
16 May 2001, 00:00
Followings yesterdays launch of the Athlon 4, we went to the AMD UK launch of these units in London, in case you have been asleep the Athlon 4 is AMD’s ...
13 May 2001, 00:00
I recently got one of Abit's current socket A motherboards, from past experience with the Abit KT7 RAID the previous version I knew I was in for a treat, Abit ...
8 May 2001, 00:00
It is still not fully known whether the upcoming SMP Socket A boards will take tbirds, but if it does, I imagine for many people, two AXIAs would prove an ...
26 April 2001, 00:00
In the last 18 months we have seen a lot of movement in the processor market, with AMD being more competitive than Intel in price, performance and value. The latest ...
2 April 2001, 00:00
The AMD Duron 850 has been out for a while, and now it is time for AMD to release their latest baby to crush the Intel market, the Duron 900 ...
1 March 2001, 00:00
I included them and the pictures in this review to make it slightly easier to understand and get it working on your own KT7A motherboard.
28 February 2001, 00:00
I had been waiting for a DDR motherboard and RAM to arrive for a while, the wait was over, on Friday I got a rather large box delivered to my ...
16 February 2001, 00:00
Following up the original KT133 chipset from Via was never going to be an easy task in the Socket A market as it has been from the outset about the ...
11 February 2001, 00:00
This all started with the Athlon, where people could simply modify the CPU and change the multiplier, enabling users to have much faster systems for a lot less cash...
27 January 2001, 00:00
The computer market is changing all the time, a year ago if you had said we would be running @ 1.2 GHz with DDR Ram technology I wouldn't have believed ...
30 October 2000, 00:00
Right, well lets admit it AMD weren't very good before the launch of the original Athlon, but since then they have dominated the market, since the release of this Athlon ...
18 September 2000, 00:00
As AMD slowly shift its processor packages from Slot A over to Socket A, a new crop of compatible motherboards have started to emerge...
7 September 2000, 00:00
AMD Duron Overclocking Guide - a budget blaster?
15 July 2000, 00:00
Ever since AMD released their original Athlon, there was always a value version on the cards. Finally, it has been released as the Duron Codename : Spitfire).
2 June 2000, 00:00
We have found a card which is very useful to you the end user. Instead of using dip-switches it has a series of dials.
16 May 2000, 00:00
I got an Athlon Freezer Pro, which is actually the same as the Athlon Freezer, but has some additional chrome fan guards on it.
16 May 2000, 00:00
A quick guide on how to turn a 400MHz chip into a slightly charred 350Mhz chip.
26 April 2000, 00:00
The Maximizer design is brilliant and very high quality, the best I have seen so far.
28 February 2000, 00:00
The FreeSpeed Pro is very small and it sticks vertically up from the Golden Finger connector.
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