Month: July 2004

A year from now, assume all the following: Performance: 90nm Athlon64 Hammers get introduced at 2.2GHz (3500+), socket 939 only. The initial ones are generally capable of 2.5GHz overclocked with high-end air and moderate overvoltage, and slowly improve over the

A few days ago, someone complained about the current vaporness of nVidia’s GeForce 6800 Ultra. He thought it rather wrong that this product wasn’t available a month after introduction. He then asked us what we thought about it. Unfortunately, vaporware

Some more schools are jumping onto Napster 2.0. Apparently, the deal N 2.0 is offering knocks down the normal $10 a month price for this service down to about $3 a month. For a nine-month school year, that’s about the

The Inquirer points to another AMD roadmap. This roadmap is a bit different than the one they showed a few days ago in that this one shows which processor belongs to which socket. According to this, by Q4 2004, AMD

The Inquirer has an article about what the socket A Semprons are going to be like. It points out the obvious from the data: lower speed, higher PR rating. We spoke about this reorientation of PR the other day, and