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The Grinch That Stole Christmas

AMD Bartons Coming With Multiplier Locks In the results of our survey the other day, a lot of you wanted Santa to bring you a Barton 2500+. Unfortunately, it looks like AMD has decided to play Grinch this Christmas and

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Rat Poison and Radeons 1816

AMD Thinks It Will Make A Profit This Quarter Given the upsurge in CPU sales the last few months, and an additional boost due to initial desktop Hammer sales, this would hardly be surprising, as we’ve indicated a few times

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Intel Gets Into Metal . . .

This is one of those stories that actually are far more important in the long run than 99.9% of those you’ll ever see. Very succinctly, Intel has a power problem. Until fairly recently, its CPUs leaked about 5-10% of its

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A Matrix Moment . . .

At first, I didn’t know who bothered me more, the Wachowski brothers for botching their opportunities to tell a truly great story, or the critics who often couldn’t even comprehend the coherent bits that were there. After a bit more

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The Mind of Dell . . .

A few places have gotten a bit upset about this Dell interview, apparently because Dell isn’t adopting Opterons any time soon, if ever. Just looking at the headline of the story tells you all you really need to know: “Standards,

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An A64 3000+? . . .

This forum thread mentions the existence of an A64 3000+. Please note that the benchmarks in that thread do NOT come from a 1.8GHz A64; they are benchmarks from a 3200+ running at a 9X multiplier. Currently, you can reduce