AMD’s New Barcelona Architecture is Coming
DailyTech has a good summary of it. The most interesting things to me are the fact that it’s designed from the ground up to be quad-core, unlike Intel’s offering, which takes two dual cores and slaps them together (to explain it crudely). It’s thus easier for each core to act independently as the [...]
AMD CPU Price Cut today
AMD has cut processor prices today, as expected. The price cuts apply to their entire lineup of processors, and in some cases are quite drastic:
Processor
Old price
New price
Athlon 64 FX-74
$799/pair
$599/pair
Athlon 64 FX-72
$599/pair
$599/pair
Athlon 64 X2 6000+
$241
$178
Athlon 64 X2 5600+
$188
$157
Athlon 64 X2 5200+
$178
$136
Athlon 64 X2 5000+
$167
$125
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
$136
$115
Athlon 64 X2 4400+
$121
$94
Athlon 64 X2 4200+
-
$83
Athlon 64 X2 4000+
$104
$73
Athlon [...]
A look at CPU prices and performance - in relation
Tech Report is taking a new twist on CPU reviews - they have posted an article which makes it easier to shop for a new CPU by plotting each processor’s performance and price on a graph. Yup, one more graph for the folks at Tech Report ;)
The results are somewhat predictable - Intel’s processors [...]
AMD’s Worst Week Ever
Have you ever had one of those weeks? You know, when everything that could go wrong does go wrong? By the end of the week, you feel like that things are never going to be the same. Sometimes, you just want to give up.
AMD happened to have had one of those weeks last week. [...]
Video Card Naming Schemes
I am of the opinion that video card naming and numbering schemes are now created to purposely confuse and mislead the consumer. I’m all for having selection, but things are starting to get ridiculous.
Without googling, put the following GPUs in order from fastest to slowest: the x1950 pro, x1950XT the x1900XT, the x1900XL, the [...]
