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65 articles tagged as am2

Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Review

Wireless RGB headset with surround sound for under £100. Any good?

July 31, 2020 | 11:00

The 10 Best Management Games of the Last 10 Years

Rick counts down the ten best management games from the last decade.

July 30, 2020 | 10:45

Death Stranding Review

Excessive and indulgent in the best and worst ways, Death Stranding is nonetheless a captivating experience.

July 27, 2020 | 14:00

AMD Phenom and Quad Core Opteron

AMD has shared some details with us on its upcoming native quad core "Barcelona" processor. With it comes a new name: Phenom. We delve into the depths of the new architecture to see what improvements have been shoehorned into the new silicon.

May 14, 2007 | 11:00

AMD Launches the RS690 chipset

AMD launched its RS690 chipset today, with more motherboard manufacturers shipping the hardware than ever before

February 28, 2007 | 14:17

MSI K9A Platinum

Today, we have a look at MSI's K9A Platinum based on AMD's 580X CrossFire chipset. Could this turn out to be a great bargain for budget gamers? Let's find out...

January 23, 2007 | 15:27

Asus Crosshair

The first Asus Republic of Gamers board is known as Crosshair and it's based on NVIDIA's nForce 590 SLI chipset for socket AM2 Athlon 64's. Does it aim to strike in the right areas, or will it be fragged into oblivion? Read on for the low down...

January 12, 2007 | 11:55

Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X

Our guest today is Mr. Wendel, who brings us the latest iteration of Abit's Fatal1ty series motherboards. Does the Fatal1ty AN9 32X teach you kids how to pwn? We find out...

December 8, 2006 | 17:58

Sapphire PURE CrossFire PC-AM2RD580

Sapphire is normally known for its awesome ATI video cards, but it has expanded into making enthusiast-class motherboards. We have a look at the company's latest board, the PURE CrossFire PC-AM2RD580 and find out whether it's worth your money. Read on to find out how we got on with it.

September 23, 2006 | 19:09

DFI announces LANParty UT NF590 SLI-M2R mobo

DFI has released its new AM2 board with the NVIDIA NForce 590 chipset.

August 30, 2006 | 14:24

Shuttle SN27P2

Shuttle is back with a new look chassis that has a host of new components under the hood. The SN27P2 supports AMD's new AM2 processors and has an NVIDIA nForce 570 chipset to boot. Is it as good as the company's previous designs?

August 16, 2006 | 14:48

ECS KA3 MVP Extreme

ECS' KA3 MVP is the first socket AM2 motherboard to support ATI's CrossFire technology. It's based on the solid CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset with the all-new SB600 southbridge. Does its attractive price make the board a tempting buy for an enthusiast looking to run CrossFire? We have the answers for you here...

July 13, 2006 | 20:56

AMD roadmap rumours

Details of the Sempron lineup, the X2 lineup and 65nm process technology from the boys in green.

July 12, 2006 | 15:29

ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe WiFi Edition

Today, we have a look at the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe WiFi Edition motherboard. It's another fantastic looking board from ASUS, but looks aren't everything - does it perform as well as it looks? We have the answers right here...

July 6, 2006 | 14:10

AMD readies budget Athlon 64 X2

Rumours coming from Taiwan suggest that AMD is ready to introduce a cut-cache Athlon 64 X2 3600+ to help it combat Intel's aggressive dual core drive.

June 29, 2006 | 14:51

nForce 590 SLI: Foxconn C51XEM2AA

Foxconn and NVIDIA worked closely to bring NVIDIA's reference design nForce 590 SLI motherboard to market. We have a look at the C51XEM2AA, the performance of nForce 590 SLI and find out whether Foxconn's latest board is any good...

June 14, 2006 | 14:46

Corsair shows off DDR2 at PC10000

COMPUTEX 2006: Corsair showed us its latest memory achievement - the PC10000 barrier is broken... UPDATED

June 7, 2006 | 05:15

ATI's SB600 launches with AM2 chipset update

Not to be left out of the AMD love-in, ATI has announced the availability of its RD580 for AM2 along with its much-anticipated new southbridge.

May 24, 2006 | 11:49

AMD's AM2: Athlon 64 FX-62 & X2 5000+

Well-known as a gamer's best friend, AMD chips have dominated the enthusiast sector for quite a while now. AMD is now moving the Athlon 64 to a new platform, called AM2, with a new line of chips and a DDR2 memory controller. How do the new chips line up against the old - and against Intel's Core Duo?

May 23, 2006 | 11:25

NVIDIA's nForce 500-series chipset

Along with the launch of AMD's AM2 platform today, NVIDIA is launching the successor to nForce 4 - cunningly name nForce 5. The 500-series has several variants for high-end, mid-range and mainstream. We get down and dirty with the featureset ahead of an AM2 motherboard group test.

May 23, 2006 | 11:24

Conroe coming sooner than you think

An Intel financial conference call reveals new details of the release schedule for the next-generation Core chip. It's almost here...

April 20, 2006 | 14:32

AMD moves AM2 launch forwards

Sources inside Taiwanese motherboard makers have confirmed that AMD has moved its Socket AM2 launch date forwards by two weeks.

April 20, 2006 | 12:15

AMD developing reverse Hyper-Threading?

French spy sources seem to suggest that AMD's next chip trick will be the opposite of Intel's last - making multiple cores appear as one.

April 17, 2006 | 12:48

AMD's AM2 - Conroe to get a free ride on the desktop?

Speculation and opinions are pinging back and forth over the net concerning the relative performance of the next generation CPU platforms from Intel and AMD.

April 12, 2006 | 12:25

Is NVIDIA using ULi to pressure ATI?

Second-tier Taiwanese motherboard manufactuers are feeling the squeeze at the moment, as they're finding it increasingly hard to get hold of ULi southbridges to pair with the ATI RD580 northbridge.

March 29, 2006 | 12:52

NVIDIA's next dual x16 SLI is two chips

CeBIT 2006: Many of NVIDIA's motherboard partners were showing nForce 500-series mobos on their stands. All of the dual full bandwidth PCIe x16 boards had dual chip solutions.

March 12, 2006 | 17:32