Month: November 2003

The Inquirer says they heard from European distributors that an Athlon 64 3000+ is be released very shortly. No official pricing yet, but given that AMD has been basing its official pricing on Intel’s, the official price will most likely

Aidan Morrison sent me a note asking me to take a look here. It’s a new BIOS for IWill’s socket 940 board, and it simply says “Support Opteron D-stepping code.” Since the most advanced Opteron/FX/A64 is a C stepping code,

The Inquirer has an article about some of the requirements for socket 775. The most obvious item of note is the need for a new power supply. Two 12 volt rails will be needed. Another item is talk about an

XBitLabs reports that Intel will push Northwoods one more speed bump to 3.4GHz next quarter. Going to get a little toasty in those OEM boxes. 🙂 This move would make no sense if Prescott were on track. What’s Intel going

Apple has been making claims about being the “the world’s fastest, most powerful personal computer” in its advertising, a rather dubious claim. Well, they can’t do that on British commercial TV (pretty much all non-BBC television) any more. The agency

The Inquirer reports that a new socket will be required for Opteron motherboards using DDR2s. This raises two more questions about the Hammer platform in general: Does this mean desktop Hammers are going to need a new socket for DDR2,