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  • AMD Athlon XP 3200+

    13 May 2003, 00:00

    As a platform, we're pretty impressed. 200MHz front side bus can't hurt and the DDR memory infrastructure has long been in place to support the move. NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ...

  • AMD Barton XP3000+

    10 February 2003, 00:00

    The biggest challenge faced by the Barton is its performance against arched rivals Intel and their flagship the P4 3.06. Intel have added ‘Hyper-Threading’ to further enhance performance in the ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz

    12 November 2002, 00:00

    The overclocking performance and CPU scaling at 3GHz are what impress me most with this new processor. You don't have to run with HyperThreading enabled (and of course you may ...

  • Intel Celeron 2GHz CPU

    28 October 2002, 00:00

    At least Intel have modernised the Celeron processor to some degree. The fact that it overclocks so easily bodes well for increasing the basic clock speeds to the 3GHz level, ...

  • AMD XP2700

    26 October 2002, 00:00

    The bus clock increase and the new speed from nForce2 are really something to be proud of. The Asus board is a delight and it only needs voltage adjustment to ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz

    26 August 2002, 00:00

    Intel, on the other hand, currently face no real headroom dilemma with their Northwood processor. Things have been going so well on the P4 front that clock speeds have been ...

  • AMD Athlon XP2600

    21 August 2002, 00:00

    Without sounding like an AMD advert, this CPU is pretty special. The changes made to the core have made all the difference and the CPU now scales well at 0.13u.

  • AMD Athlon XP2200+ (.13 Micron)

    10 June 2002, 00:00

    Underneath the name it's quite a different beast from XP2100+ and represents a big change for AMD, namely their success in bringing a 0.13u process desktop processor to market. It's ...

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  • VIA C3 Gold CPU - 1GHz

    3 June 2002, 00:00

    On first impressions the new layout of the C3 1GHz is not dissimilar to an AMD Athlon or Duron processor in appearance of cache chips now being on top of ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4B

    6 May 2002, 00:00

    Over the past few months we have seen Intel becoming more and more competitive in the desktop CPU market. Currently they have the stronghold over AMD with the Pentium 4. ...

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  • VIA C3 933MHz

    1 May 2002, 00:00

    Coupling a C3 with a Shuttle SV24 or even the recently released SV25 is definitely a option available to those looking for a home theatre setup or even just a ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz ['Northwood' core]

    1 May 2002, 00:00

    So what's changed other than the move to the 0.13 micron die process with these new CPU's? The most obvious change is the move to 512kb of cache memory which ...

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  • Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz

    2 April 2002, 00:00

    We can't help but feel that the introduction of the 2.4GHz P4 is merely a stop-gap between Northwood revisions, and simply launched to counteract the excellent performance of AMD's XP2100. ...

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  • AMD Athlon XP2100+

    13 March 2002, 00:00

    Another release from AMD sees them, in our eyes at least, back at the top of the desktop CPU market. The XP2100 simply enhances what is already an excellent processor. ...

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  • Intel Pentium III Tualatin 1.067Ghz

    19 February 2002, 00:00

    Pick up these little pieces of computing history if you can since they are fine performers and overclock like champions.

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  • PIV Northwood overclocking

    11 February 2002, 00:00

    The PIV Northwood is the latest revision of the Intel Pentium 4, based on a .13 micron process, and using 512kb level 2 cache. It has a lower core voltage ...

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  • AMD Athlon XP 1900

    11 February 2002, 00:00

    The time period between the release of the Athlon XP1800 and this new chip, the 1600Mhz XP1900 can be measured in days. Indeed, the initial AthlonXP range which included the ...

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  • AMD Duron 1.3 Ghz

    23 January 2002, 00:00

    The Duron gets our value performance thumbs up and makes a great processor for a 2nd system or the user on a budget.

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  • Intel Pentium 4 2GHz

    11 January 2002, 00:00

    Excellent performance when combined with either DDR or RDRAM memory with only the price making things awkward and the test processor at least was a fine overclocker. Not quite fast ...

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  • AMD XP2000+ CPU

    7 January 2002, 00:00

    Incredibly fast and incredibly expensive are the buzzwords to take away from this review when thinking about this processor.

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  • Intel P4 1.7 Ghz

    20 September 2001, 00:00

    The world over, with the famed Celeron 300A. This CPU was a major success in the hardware / overclocking world. It got just about everyone in the hardware world to ...

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  • AMD Duron 1GHz ['Morgan' Core]

    21 August 2001, 00:00

    If two years ago we'd said you would see a budget CPU for under $80, which is at 1GHz, you might've said we were being fanciful...

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  • AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz 'Thunderbird'

    6 June 2001, 00:00

    AMD have recently launched the new core range of the "Athlon 4" or the "Palomino". This already has 2 high breeds on the market one in the form of the ...

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  • AMD Duron 950

    6 June 2001, 00:00

    As we say every time, AMD have done very well to pull the market around and ever since the launch of the Slot A Athlon they have dominated the market ...

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  • Intel P4

    27 May 2001, 00:00

    AMD and Intel have finally decided to go their own ways in the form of CPUs. Before we had AMD, the \'underdog\', chasing Intel for the top spot, which some ...

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  • AMD Launch Mobile Units

    16 May 2001, 00:00

    Followings yesterdays launch of the Athlon 4, we went to the AMD UK launch of these units in London, in case you have been asleep the Athlon 4 is AMD’s ...

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  • AMD Athlon 1.33GHz ['Thunderbird' core]

    26 April 2001, 00:00

    In the last 18 months we have seen a lot of movement in the processor market, with AMD being more competitive than Intel in price, performance and value. The latest ...

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  • AMD Duron 900

    2 April 2001, 00:00

    The AMD Duron 850 has been out for a while, and now it is time for AMD to release their latest baby to crush the Intel market, the Duron 900 ...

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  • AMD 1.2 Ghz DDR Clockin'

    28 February 2001, 00:00

    I had been waiting for a DDR motherboard and RAM to arrive for a while, the wait was over, on Friday I got a rather large box delivered to my ...

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  • AMD Duron 850

    27 January 2001, 00:00

    The computer market is changing all the time, a year ago if you had said we would be running @ 1.2 GHz with DDR Ram technology I wouldn't have believed ...

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  • Powerleap PL-ProII

    15 January 2001, 00:00

    P6 has stayed its ground and has only just been superseded with the introduction of the Pentium 4 (unless you count the Athlon as post P6 - I'm not getting ...

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  • AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz

    30 October 2000, 00:00

    Right, well lets admit it AMD weren't very good before the launch of the original Athlon, but since then they have dominated the market, since the release of this Athlon ...

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  • AMD Duron 700 processor review

    15 July 2000, 00:00

    Ever since AMD released their original Athlon, there was always a value version on the cards. Finally, it has been released as the Duron Codename : Spitfire).

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