Month: July 2003

There’s a story out there that 865PE/875P motherboards will not be compatible with Prescott processors. There’s a followup article here. While we can’t completely dismiss the story, we have grave doubts about it for the following reasons: 1) The technical

This website (at least for the moment, save the benchmarks if you ever want to look at them later) purportedly has a few benchmarks of an Athlon64 3400+. The key numbers to look at are the Sandra CPU benchmark numbers:

First nVidia released some drivers that offered stupendous performance increases in 3DMark2003, and nothing else elsewhere. Eventually, they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. So what do they do? It looks like nVidia’s answer gives the appearance

Is The Prince That Charming? IBM has been getting increasingly involved with AMD lately, which put that comment by an IBM exec some months back about AMD not being around five years from now in a whole different light, now

Take a look at Intel’s expected pricing come late October: CPU SpeedMotherboard Official Price 3.4GHz $640 3.2GHz $420 3.0GHz $275 2.8GHz $220 There’s nothing particularly unusual about that for Intel. What will be unusual will be the effect these prices

News Items: AMD Accidentally Sends Out PR Schedule Talk about non-news! With one possible exception (see below), could anybody give me a single good reason why any of this is such a big secret? The China announcements are the only

Today is Independence Day in the United States. The events that Independence Day commemorates are among the most known and least understood of modern times. Let’s take as an example one of the notions that came about as the result