With AMD continuing to deliver beta driver updates left and right lately, today they come to us with another update. Another one of AMD’s point driver updates, Catalyst 15.11.1 primarily brings performance updates to some of the headlining tiles of…
AMD’s Hammer in Action: The most impressive demo of IDF
Intel has had a great IDF thus far; the attendance is great, the products are innovative and honestly it’s an exciting time to be involved with the tech industry. The first developer forum of 2002 is testament to the fact…
AMD Athlon XP 2600/2400+ – Introducing Thoroughbred Revision B
Today is AMD’s big day; it is the third year anniversary of the Athlon processor and to celebrate it, AMD is giving the Athlon XP some much needed attention. AMD had been losing their grip on the performance crown to…
AMD Athlon 64 & Athlon 64 FX – It’s Judgment Day
It was an unexpected addition to the meeting; apparently the call had just been made prior to my arrival. I was standing in front of two systems running AMD “Hammer” processors, clocked at 800MHz, in both 32-bit and 64-bit OSes.…
The Athlon 64 FX-53: AMD’s Next Enthusiast Part
Introduction When the Pentium 4 3.4GHz EE came out along with Prescott, Intel was able to take a few bragging rights away from AMD. Today, the answering shot from the other side is the AMD Athlon 64 FX-53. This launch…
Athlon Dual Core: Overclocking the 4200+
Athlon Dual Core: Overclocking the 4200+ The official introduction of the Dual-Core or X2 Athlon 64 happened at Computex the first of this month. As you saw on AnandTech in AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance…
NVIDIA: New nForce4 Chipsets
NVIDIA announced two new chipsets for Intel processors today. Where NVIDIA has only targeted the high-end of the Intel chipset market to this point, the new chipsets are aimed at the entire Intel chipset line. The new NVIDIA nForce4 SLI…
Intel Developer Forum – Beijing 2007: Penryn and Intel’s High End GPU
Intel quickly expanded its developer forum to include many stops across the globe, but after recent cost cutting measures it scaled back the number of IDFs down to just three. The Spring IDF, normally held in San Francisco, has instead…
Intel X38: Where’s the Beef?
A plausible quote today from the great American Humorist, Will Rogers, but certainly not as famous as Clara Peller’s quote in the main title while getting her 15 minutes of fame at Wendy’s. It was on September 18th, 2007 that…
AMD Teases Future Radeon RX 470 & Radeon RX 460 Cards
With the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo once again upon us, this week has been a flood of gaming hardware and software news. On the PC front, AMD is once again sponsoring PC Gamer’s PC Gaming Show, and while the company…