Wie een nieuwe processor wil aanschaffen heeft merkgewijs weinig keuze, maar wat betreft modellen weer heel veel keuze, misschien wel teveel. Wij lieten alle gangbare processors onze benchmarks doorlopen om te bepalen met welke chip je de beste prijs/prestatie-verhouding in huis haalt.

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AMD announced initial 45nm “Shanghai” and “Deneb” Quad-Core processors are running server and client operating systems, respectively, in development systems at AMD.  The milestone was noted as momentum builds toward delivery of first AMD 45nm products to customers later this year.

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ECS Factory Tour:

I was invited by Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) to tour two of its factories. The first factory on tour was the PCB production facility. The second was the motherboard assembly plant. We were shown the many steps a motherboard goes through from inception to final product.

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AMD's newfound zest for life has made it look for what would really, really hurt the competition. The answer? the game developers. I'm not sure if you've heard, but Blizzard has grown pretty big these days. World of WarCraft has been an indescribable success. It's been known for a while that Blizzard has been looking at implementing DirectX 10.1 with one of its future games. The fact is that it's more than one, or two.

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AMD's huidige topprocessor is de Phenom 9850, maar dit duurt niet lang meer. De eerste 9950's duiken namelijk al op in de prijslijsten. Het gaat om de Black Edition, dat wil zeggen, zonder multiplier lock. De processor gaat ongeveer € 199 kosten.

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