Athlon Vs. Atom: Duel Of The Energy Savers By Bert Toepelt published 15 August 08 Our German lab recently bought itself an AMD Athlon 64 2000+ processor, which only consumes 8 W of power. Clearly, this would make for a good face-off against Intel's energy-efficient Atom.
Atom Benchmarked: 4W Of Performance By Bert Toepelt published 29 July 08 Originally developed for use in nettops, the Atom is now available for desktops. But how economical is the little platform, and is it powerful enough to handle daily work requirements?
35 AMD CPUs Tested for Power Consumption By Bert Toepelt published 7 May 08 We look at the power consumption and cost of running 35 AMD CPUs under varying conditions.
CeBIT 2008: Two new AMD Boards from Gigabyte By Bert Toepelt published 6 March 08 Gigabyte is presenting two new motherboards for AMD's Phenom processor. The GA-780SLI-DS5 uses Nvidia's SLI-capable nForce 780a chipset while the GA-MA78GM-S2H is built around AMD's own 780G chipset.
CeBIT 2008: Dual-Tuner PCI-Express TV Card from ASUS By Bert Toepelt published 5 March 08 ASUS is introducing its first dual-tuner TV card for an x1 PCI-Express slot. The MYC-PE9300Dual Hybrid is able to show digital and analog TV signals simultaneously.
CeBIT 2008: Overclocked ATI HD 3870 X2 by ASUS By Bert Toepelt published 5 March 08 ASUS is showing an overclocked version of the dual-GPU HD3870 X2 card.
AMD's New 780G Chipset Has Powerful GPU By Bert Toepelt published 4 March 08 The 780G's northbridge chip has integrated Radeon HD3200 GPU. No graphics card or powerful CPU needed to build a hi-def HTPC. Crossfire supports added graphics card for very good gaming performance.
Intel Skulltrail Part 2: Overclocking & Power By Bert Toepelt published 7 February 08 How overclockable is the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 and quad channel D5400XS motherboard combination? And what about power consumption?
Intel Skulltrail Part 1: The Power of 8 Cores By Bert Toepelt published 6 February 08 Intel's Skulltrail platform sports 8 cores running at 4 GHz each and uses a quad-core memory interface. Developed out of fear of AMD's Phenom, Intel's fastest hardware meets underdeveloped software.
