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AMD's Quad FX Platform - What's in a 4x4? , Author: MS: January 21, 2007

AMD's Brisbane Core - the Transition to 65 nm - And the cache latency, Author: MS: January 5, 2007

Video and Audio Encoding Performance - AMD's Dual Core vs, Intel's Core2 Duo , Author: JoeF: August 28, 2006

Low Power and Energy-Efficient CPUs - Intel Core2 Duo vs. AMD X2-3800+ and 4600+, Author: MS: August 14, 2006

New AM2-Platform BIOS Settings - From CMD Rate to DLL and Queue Bypass, Author: MS: June 19, 2006

AMD's AM2 Platform - The long way to DDR2, Author: MS: May 23, 2006 2006

AMD Athlon64 FX60+ (Toledo) - Winner Takes All, Author: MS: January 10, 2006

AMD Athlon64 3800+ (Manchester) - The Mancunian Candidate, Author: MS: September 20, 2005

AMD Athlon64 FX57 (San Diego) - The Cost Of Speed, Author: MS: June 27, 2005

AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Toledo) - Dual Core Processing for the Desktop, Author: MS: May 9, 2005

AMD Athlon64 Venice core - Casanova's Legacy, Author: MS: May 1st, 2005

AMD Athlon64 4000+ - The Speed Bumpling, Author: MS: October 19, 2004

Panorama Factory and the $64-bit Question - What is really behind the memory limitation and what are OS limitations, Author: MS: September 2, 2004

AMD Athlon64 3800+ - Socket 939 at its best, Author: MS: July 1 2004.

AMD Athlon64 FX53 - Upping the Ante once again and we managed to crank 2700 MHz out of this puppy, Author: MS: March 18, 2004

AMD Athlon64 3400+ - . Single Channel Memory At Unheard-Of Low Latencies, Author: MS: January 6, 2004

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (and ASUS K8V) - Single Channel Memory At Unheard-Of Low Latencies, Author: MS: November 3, 2003

Speed Strip SSA-1 - Unlocking in a plastic strip, Author: MS: October 19 23, 2003

Athlon 64 FX-51 - The First AMD 64-bit processor brings x86-64 ISA to the desktop and sets new performance standards, Author: MS: September 23, 2003

Athlon XP3200+ Review - Deja Vue on the CPU but some interesting APIC issues rewarding 20 % performance increase in selected applications, Author: MS: May 13, 2003

Athlon XP3200+ Preview - Introducing 400 MHz FSB, Author: MS: March 3, 2003

5 Seconds to Unlock the Multiplier - Behind the Mainboard, Author: MS: February 11, 2003

Athlon XP3000+ - The Barton core adds 256 kB L2 cache, Author: MS: Feb 10, 2003

Athlon XP2800+ - The Last Thoroughbred, Author: MS: October 1, 2002

333 MHz FSB for the Athlon - In Depth Performance Analysis, Author: MS: September 3rd, 2002

To Fry a Thoroughbred - A Glitch with Fatal Consequences, Author: MS: June 14, 2002

AMD XP2200+ - The first ThoroughBred is a dwarf that doesn't clock, Author: MS: June 10, 2002

AMD XP2100+ - The last of the Palomino family brings a huge overclocking potential to the table. Running 1900 and higher real MHz, Author: MS: March 26, 2002

AMD XP2000+ vs. Intel P4 Northwood - It's a close call but the XP wins by a nose-length, Author: MS: January 7, 2002

AMD XP1900+ - from QuantiSpeed to HyperVelocity at 1720 MHz, Author: MS: November 6 2001

Athlon XP 1800+ - AMD introduces the QuantiSpeed Architecture as new marketing tool. The Palomino officially enters the desktop market and beats the Pentium4 even on its own turf, Author: MS: October 14, 2001

Athlon 4 (Palomino) vs Athlon (Thunderbird) - The impact of SSE Up to 90% performance difference in CAS applications open the high end graphics world for the Palomino, Author: MS: August 2, 2001

AMD K63+ VS. K6-+2 - AMD K6III+ and K6-2+, the Final Cut. Author: ludicrous. July 13, 2001

NinjaMicro FreeSpeed Pro - An add-on card to overclock the Athlon. Read RoadRunner's review Jan 23, 2000

AMD Athlon BIOS Tweaks - We never knew how timeless this would become, Author: MS: October 1, 1999

AMD Athlon 750 - The First Die-Shrink and L2 Cache Divider Games, Author: MS: December 11, 1999

AMD Athlon 600 - The Breathtaking Debut of the K7 takes the entire world by surprise and marks the beginning of the Road to Success for AMD; , Author: MS: August 9, 1999

AMD K63 400 - A Sharptooth That Bites. Author: bighammer and MS: March 16, 1999

AMD K6-2 vs K6-III - A tough choice, Author: RoadRunner: April 20 1999

AMD K6-2 400 CXT - Nobody seems to know how to use the new features of the Chompers core. We seeked and found up to 30% performance increase by playing with some codes; January 20 1999

AMD K6-2 380CXT - AMD introduces some new features like prefetch, write allocation and write combine buffers with the CXT core. Author: RoadRunner; November 1998

A short Interview with Dale Weisman, AMD; August 28, 1988

The Other Side Of the "Peltier" Effect - A ground strap to eliminate static charges on the CPU? Author: MS: July 10, 1998

AMD K6-266 - a sample of feedbacks, May 1, 1998

Intel's Penryn Core - Putting the Metal Back into CMOS at 45nm, Author: MS: January 28, 2007

Intel's Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6700 - Codename "Kentsfield" , Author: MS: November 1, 2006

Low Power and Energy-Efficient CPUs - Intel Core2 Duo vs. AMD X2-3800+ and 4600+, Author: MS: August 14, 2006

Intel's Core2 Duo/Extreme - A new Intel. Author: MS, July 25, 2006

Intel's Presler - Two Dies, 4 MB of Cache and a Lot of Power. Author: MS, Dec 27, 2005

Intel Pentium4 820D (Smithfield) vs. P4 670 (Prescott) - Intel's budget dual core solution vs. the 3.8 GHz Monster. Author: MS, September 3, 2005

Intel Pentium4 ExtremeEdition 840 and 840D - Dual Cores at work. Author: MS, June 20, 2005

Intel Pentium4 600 Series in 64-bit Computing - PanoramaFactory Revisited. Author: MS, March 2, 2005

Intel Pentium4 600 Series - 2 MB L2Cache and..? . Author: MS, Feb 21, 2005

Along Came A Dothan - Mobile Processors Kill Desktop Brethren. Author: MS, Jan 2, 2005

Intel Pentium4 550 at 1066 MHz bus - Benchmarks from the Dark Side. Author: MS, November 21, 2004

Intel Pentium4 ExtremeEdition 3.46GHz - Deja Vue. Author: MS, November 16, 2004

Intel Pentium4 Socket T LGA775 Take-2 - System Performance. Author: MS, August 16, 2004

Intel Pentium4 Socket T LGA775" - Look Mommy, No Pins! Author: MS, July 28, 2004

Intel Pentium4 "Prescott 3.4 GHz" - To Scale or not to Scale, we asked; Author: MS, May 23, 2004

Intel Pentium4 "Prescott" - 1 MB Level 2 cache, 16 kB L 1 and 31 pipeline stages; Author: MS, February 1, 2004

Intel Pentium4 Extreme Edition - 2 MB Level3 cache; Author: MS, October 11, 2003

Intel Pentium4 3.2 GHz-800 MHz FSB. Still at 800 MHz FSB; Author: MS, June 23, 2003

Intel Pentium4 3.0 GHz-800 MHz FSB. 800 MHz FSB enabled by Canterwood; Author: MS, April 14, 2003

Intel Pentium4 3.06 GHz. Not just another speedbump but the first foray into desktop HyperThreading; Author: MS, November 16, 2002

Intel Pentium4 2.8 GHz. Intel closes in on the 3GHz barrier that the new CPUs easily reach with standard overclocking; Author: MS, August 26, 2002

Intel Pentium4 2.4B, 2.53 GHz. Intel is moving on to 133/533 MHz FSB and blows away everything we have seen before; Author: MS, May 6, 2002

Intel, Pentium4 2.4 GHz. The last Northwood running at a quad-pumped 100 MHz FSB. 2.8 GHz, no problem; Author: MS, April 8, 2002

Intel P4 Northwood. Intel revises the P4 to come out with 130 nm technology, the fastest transistors in the industry and throws in a 512 kB L2 cache. Up to 25% faster than Willamette. Author: MS, January 7, 2002

Intel Tualatin 1200. The last PIII Revision. A die shrink to 130 nm and a metal slug are the obvious characteristics, under the hood is a new Data Prefetch Logic. One of the Best CPUs ever made by Intel but doomed for an ephemeral nick of time. Author: MS, August 12, 2001

Intel Pentium III 500/550E FC-PGA Intel's latest attack on the mid range market with a few substantial improvements but some compatibility issues as well. Read the Author: MS, Jan 6. 2000

Slocket II Which one is a better choice, Iwill's slocket II, the Soltek SL-02A or the MSI MS6905 Master. Full story by MS, December 27 1999

HP PA-8800 RISC Processor Preview. HP shows off with the PA-8800 Dual core server class processor. 3 MB L1 cache, 32 MB L2 cache are promising lightning fast performance. Author: MS, October 20, 2001

VIA C3 800 MHz. Cyrix/VIA' comeback in to the CPU market. 150 nm interconnect technology allows cool running albeit at a slow pace. A great solution for smaller servers and Set Top boxes but not for the performance-oriented. Author: MS October 3, 2001