SM-Bot
25 Nov 2003, 01:05pm
“With processors coming out every week, it seems like lately you have to ask yourself what exactly is the benefit of keeping up to date with the latest hardware. The AMD Barton has had hundreds of reviews and I wanted to do something a little different. I wanted to see how it stands up to its little brother the Thoroughbred. The processors I will be comparing today are the AMD Thoroughbred B core 1700+ against the AMD Barton 2800+. To keep things fair, both CPU's will be clocked at 200x10 which is the highest stable overclock the 1700+ was capable of. “
<a href="http://www.cybercpu.net/review/amd/barton/index.asp" target="_new">AMD Barton Core @ CyberCPU</a>
"Black Thunder is what Soltek is calling their High-End series aimed at giving the overclocker and hardware enthusiast what they demand. The boards will feature a jet black PCB, purple expansion slots, with more onboard features and plenty of included cables."
<a href="http://www.ninjalane.com/display.aspx?docname=sl-865-gr" target="_new">Soltek SL-865-GR "Black Thunder" Review @ Ninjalane</a>
"The Abit KV8-Max3 motherboard uses the latest Via K8T800 chipset supporting AMD Athlon 64 socket-754 processors and is Abit's top of the line AMD motherboard."
<a href="http://www.a1-electronics.net/AMD_Section/Mobos/K8T800/Abit_KV8-Max3.shtml" target="_new">Abit KV8-Max3 Via K8T800 chipset AMD Athlon 64 @ A1</a>
"I like music. I like my music, and have rather eclectic/eccentric taste. So before I left the house for work the other day, I thought I would make my MP3 collection accessible from the web, so I could listen at work. Now, I'm no bootlegger, I'm just a nerd that keeps all of his CD's on his hard drive (in MP3 format), because my PC is the entertainment center in my home (I don't have cable, but I have broadband - that should clue you in to where I'm at)."
<a href="http://www.thecrucible.ca/reviews/mp3_asp/" target="_New">How to make your XP Professional machine an MP3 server @ The Crucible</a>
<a href="http://www.cybercpu.net/review/amd/barton/index.asp" target="_new">AMD Barton Core @ CyberCPU</a>
"Black Thunder is what Soltek is calling their High-End series aimed at giving the overclocker and hardware enthusiast what they demand. The boards will feature a jet black PCB, purple expansion slots, with more onboard features and plenty of included cables."
<a href="http://www.ninjalane.com/display.aspx?docname=sl-865-gr" target="_new">Soltek SL-865-GR "Black Thunder" Review @ Ninjalane</a>
"The Abit KV8-Max3 motherboard uses the latest Via K8T800 chipset supporting AMD Athlon 64 socket-754 processors and is Abit's top of the line AMD motherboard."
<a href="http://www.a1-electronics.net/AMD_Section/Mobos/K8T800/Abit_KV8-Max3.shtml" target="_new">Abit KV8-Max3 Via K8T800 chipset AMD Athlon 64 @ A1</a>
"I like music. I like my music, and have rather eclectic/eccentric taste. So before I left the house for work the other day, I thought I would make my MP3 collection accessible from the web, so I could listen at work. Now, I'm no bootlegger, I'm just a nerd that keeps all of his CD's on his hard drive (in MP3 format), because my PC is the entertainment center in my home (I don't have cable, but I have broadband - that should clue you in to where I'm at)."
<a href="http://www.thecrucible.ca/reviews/mp3_asp/" target="_New">How to make your XP Professional machine an MP3 server @ The Crucible</a>