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Nanometer Wars: Athlon 64 versus…Athlon 64
Last fall, AMD quietly started shipping Athlon 64 processors built on a 90nm process developed with IBM. Using its own product naming system, the 90nm processors top out with the Athlon 64 3500+, which clocks at 2.2GHz and contains 512KB of L2 cache. Codenamed “Winchester,” the 90nm 3500+ is a scant 84 mm2, compared to…
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D-Link’s Broadband Router Aims to End Latency
Any serious gamer these days probably has a broadband connection that is often shared by multiple devices. With the help of a small broadband router, which usually has four ports, a gamer can have online access on several computers or game consoles simultaneously. Your connection speed or hardware isn’t necessarily your biggest problem in online…
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ATI’s Radeon X800 XL: The latest of a Growing Family
Between midrange and high-end graphics cards lies a barren wasteland where products known as “tweeners” go to die. Historically, there have been two main price-points for 3D cards: $200 and whatever else the market would bear for the top-end, bragging-rights-be-mine “glory SKU.” Squeezed from both sides, products in the $250–400 price-range rarely, if ever, have…
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Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition
The Sum of the Parts We frequently get the same question from our readers in the ExtremeTech forum: I want to get rid of Windows, so which Linux distribution should I try? Now we have a definite answer: Get Xandros. With the release of version 3, the Xandros folks have finally come up with a…
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Review: $200 Graphics Showdown—GeForce 6600GT vs. Radeon X700 Pro
High-end graphics cards get all the glory. A card like a GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X850 can cost over $500, but not many users are willing to shell out that kind of money. In fact, these extremely high-end cards probably account for only 1% or 2% of all graphics cards sales. Where do people…
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Mozilla Takes Aim at E-mail with Thunderbird 1.0
Based on our initial impressions, the new open-source e-mail client from Mozilla, called Thunderbird, is well worth exploring. It seems to work quite well, both on Web-based mail like Gmail and on POP3 accounts. It also supports IMAP for connecting to Exchange and other servers, but we didn’t test that feature. Outlook Express users should…
