Hi, I just tried to install a motherboard, a MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR with a AMD Athlon XP 2400+ CPU. I saw that the motherboard has an extra 4 pins 12V connector. I know that pentium 4 CPUs need this connector but I thought that AMD CPUs do not need this extra connector. I was wondering why is it there...

Hi, I built myself an XP 2500+ machine, and at no load it is showing a CPU temperature of about 57C. I did not use any thermal grease like Arctic Silver, used the stock fan supplied by AMD, and the ambient temperature was about 30C. Am I running too hot? Thanks, PS: Am I asking this in the...

Does anyone know any websites where i can find athlon-m, processors like the 2500,2600 etc? there seems to be hardly any on the net so far the best i could find is www.overclock.co.uk but there must be a cheaper prices than £68 for a XP2500-M

DDR2 is negating the advantage of internal memory controllers. L3 is now more than just an academic possibility, to claw back all of that. (More than likely ZRAM L3 as other stories have stated.) AMD attacks DDR-II latency problems http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30513

Some of the benchmarks from the new Barcelona and related cores are starting to leak out. Of course our friends at the Inquirer are the ones doing the leaking here. The following article has a lot of people twittering right now. http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=41970 In it, we see that Theo...

Hello. My motherboard is an Asus A7V133-VM with KM133A chipset and the latest Bios. (I know all about how Bartons are meant for 166/333MHz FSB, and that this motherboard only supports 133/266, and the multipliers will be out etc, this doesn't worry me). I am wondering, will a Barton CPU work...

"the week ending April 24 AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales, marking what is believed to be the first time the AMD has outsold Intel in a retail channel, all without the help of Dell. " http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1083689661.html rms

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AMD breaks Teraflop limit In German: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-knackt-die-TeraFLOPS-Grenze--/meldung/109500/from/atom10 The Firestream 9250 GPU PCIe express card is likely based on the new RV770 GPU, as will be used in the Radeon 4800 series. The 1 Teraflop is for single precision, i tis...

I don't really buy his arguments, but I'm posting it anyways. AMD's K10 Is delayed or dead http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27421 Yousuf Khan

AMD Will Drop Athlon 64 Model Numbers - The PR number will disappear from the CPU string - Softpedia http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Will-Drop-Athlon-64-Model-Numbers-43121.shtml

http://www.fabtech.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1390&Itemid=2 Yields of AMD chips above 50 percent at Chartered AMD's first foundry partner, Chartered Semiconductor has already been able to produce fully working die with yields equal to or even better than those achieved at AMD,...

CNN Money: http://www.tinyurl.com/outhh AMD seen close to $5.5 billion chip deal Source says Advanced Micro Devices could announce deal with #2 Canadian chipmaker as early as Monday. July 21 2006: 6:35 PM EDT

Seems as if they are considering it http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6335452?nid=2019&rid=1242392919 -- Del Cecchi "This post is my own and doesn’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.”

Is it worth enabling CnC with an Athlon64 X2 system ? My concern is the CPU throttling and its effect on system performance. What do people here think ? Is it a waste of time ?

Anandtech attempts to sort the mess of AMD core revisions. http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2418&p=3 The Socket 939 situation description is OK, but I thought it was even more complex than that...

Can anyone recommend a half-decent freeware CPU/motherboard temperature monitor for WinXP? I have a Sempron2600 in an ASRock K7VT4APro motherboard, both only a few weeks old. The thermal cut-off shuts down the system within 30 seconds of the CPU load hitting 100%. I don't know what...

Pricelist: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_609,00.html?redir=CPT301 Article in German with percentages: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/88002 Sempron 3600+ (2GHz) now 53 $

This is a German link, but the numbers (scroll down) should be readable in any language: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-tief-im-Minus--/meldung/122211

I read AMD will sell dual core cpus in 2005. What's a dual core cpu? Is that like 2 cpu's in one package?