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Performance-Showdown between Athlon and Pentium IIIAug 23, 1999 - in Reviews
In this performance-comparison between AMD's Athlon at 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750 and 800 MHz and Intel's Pentium III at 500, 550, 600 and 650 MHz it becomes pretty obvious why Athlon's future looks very bright from a performance stand point. Let's hope that this excellent muscle-processor won't become a sacrifice of big-company policy.
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KryoTech's Cool Athlon 800 MHzAug 13, 1999 - in Reviews
Kryotech's new highend-system makes it the currently fastest PC in the whole wide world. For $2,200 you get a box with an amazing overall performance, regardless if you're a professional workstation user or a gamer.
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The New Athlon Processor: AMD Is Finally Overtaking IntelAug 9, 1999 - in Reviews
Athlon's superior architecture makes sure that Intel's flagship Pentium III is beat in almost any benchmark.
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Intel Roadmap Update June 1999 Part 3: Desktop Chipset and Mobile CPU RoadmapJun 17, 1999 - in Reviews
Read all about 'Camino', 'Carmel', 'Solona' and Rambus. Look forward with me to the upcoming notebook CPUs.
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Intel Roadmap Update June 1999 Part 2: Desktop CPU RoadmapsJun 16, 1999 - in Reviews
A detailed explanation and estimation of Intel's CPUs for the next 12 months
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Intel Roadmap Update June 1999 Part I: The HighlightsJun 15, 1999 - in Reviews
Coppermine goes Socket370, Notebook PIII's shipping soon and more ...
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Take Two: Dual Celeron in Action!May 10, 1999 - in Reviews
If you take a look at the CPU market of the last months, you will realize that Intel has been releasing one Celeron version after the other.
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The Fastest PC Thanks to Kryotech's Super CoolingApr 21, 1999 - in Reviews
Kryotech is nowadays a name that is known to most of my readers and particularly the power users amongst you have certainly already contemplated running your system with one of the super cooling devices from this company based in the deep and hot South of the US.
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New CPUs from AMD and IntelFeb 23, 1999 - in Reviews
We are almost there, the wait for the new microprocessors from AMD and Intel is finally close to an end. Intel's upcoming Pentium III is an upgrade of the well known Pentium II-core with the new 'streaming SIMD extension, and AMD's new K6-3 is nothing but the latest K6-2-core with 256 kB on-die L2-cache running at core-clock. Before we start looking at the scores of those new CPUs, let's first consider what we should expect.
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Is Intel's New CPU Identification for Data Security Only a Marketing Gag?Jan 22, 1999 - in Reviews
Straight after I read about Intel's new plans to ensure higher data security over the Internet for e-commerce by implementing a identification number into their upcoming CPUs starting with Pentium III
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Latest News from AMD and IntelJan 21, 1999 - in Reviews
I spoke to Dana Krelle, AMD's vice president of marketing, and he gave me the latest scoop on AMD's plans
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CPU Performance Overview Q1/1999Jan 14, 1999 - in Reviews
On the beginning of January 1999 Intel launched two new Celeron CPUs, each for the well known Slot1 as well as for the new Socket370.
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Overclocking Special: The Intel Pentium II 300 SL2W8Dec 15, 1998 - in Reviews
By now we are pretty much at the end of the sweet days of overclocking. The upcoming Intel chips Katmai and the socketed Celeron will not allow any form of overclocking anymore and it would be no surprise if even the well known Pentium II and Celeron chips we know now, will soon also be equipped with Intel's new overclocking protection. AMD seems to consider the same, so that there will be hardly any new chip available that will allow us to tweak its performance by running it faster than it is supposed to.
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AMD Moves onto the Overtaking LaneOct 15, 1998 - in Reviews
AMD's announcement of their upcoming K7 CPU at the Microprocessor Forum 98 in San Jose could indeed mark a major change of the x86 CPU market in 1999.
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Big CPU Shoot Out: Intel Launches New Celeron with Mendocino Core and Pentium II 450Aug 24, 1998 - in Reviews
Yesterday (Aug 24, 1998) Intel announced three new processors, the Pentium II 450 and two new Celeron CPUs 'Celeron 300 A' and 'Celeron 333'
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K6-2 Performance GuideAug 5, 1998 - in Reviews
The first thing to consider is the memory question. Motherboards based on the ALi Aladdin V chipset usually are slightly faster than MVP3 chipset boards when equipped with 512 kB L2 cache
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Intel Roadmap Q3/98Jul 30, 1998 - in Reviews
The next Pentium II core at 100 MHz FSB will be Katmai , starting to ship in Q1/99, initially at 450 MHz, then soon moving to 500 MHz
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Intel Merced vs. Alpha 21264Jul 25, 1998 - in Reviews
Intel's plans for the next millenium are quite concrete. Merced is going to be Intel's first 64 Bit processor based on the new IA-64 architecture
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Intel's Pentium II Xeon ProcessorJul 2, 1998 - in Reviews
This year 1998 is the year of the Intel processor announcements. After the Pentium II at 100 MHz FSB and the Intel Celeron CPU, June 29 was the day when the Pentium II Xeon was announced, Intel's new high end solution for the workstation and server market.
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AMD's New K6-2 ProcessorMay 28, 1998 - in Reviews
Last year in April AMD was able to offer the fastest Windows x86 CPU for a very short period until Intel released the Pentium II processor
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How to Get All 66 MHz Slot 1 CPUs Running 100 MHzMay 14, 1998 - in Reviews
I've fiddled around with BX chipset boards and 100 MHz front side bus Pentium II CPUs for quite a few weeks now. Playing around with all these components is one thing, but making you able to understand how it works and making myself feeling confident to write a meaningful article also requires a lot of reading
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Intel's Slot 1 CPUs UncoveredMay 3, 1998 - in Reviews
Important things you should know about Pentium II and Celeron, Klamath and Deschutes
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CPU Performance from Socket 7 to Slot 1Apr 16, 1998 - in Reviews
A comparison of all currently available PC CPUs was more than overdue and although it's a horrible amount of work I felt forced to finally do one after Intel released not only a CPU for the high end but as well for the low end market
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The Overclocker's Dream: Kryotech's Home of Cool ComputingDec 5, 1997 - in Reviews
I came across Kryotech the first time at the Microprocessor Forum 'affinity session'. Kryotech showed an Alpha based system running at the amazing speed of 767 MHz
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Important News for OverclockersNov 30, 1997 - in Reviews
Quite a lot of time has passed since my last update of the Overclocking Guide and now some really important things happened
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The IDT WinChip C6 CPUOct 9, 1997 - in Reviews
How does the little IDT CPU perform against Intel, AMD, IBM and Cyrix?
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Performance of Future 6x86MX CPUsJul 27, 1997 - in Reviews
Last week I received a new 6x86MX CPU that turned out to be very overclockable
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CPU News July 1997Jul 25, 1997 - in Reviews
News from Intel, AMD, Cyrix/IBM and IDT about their CPU plans.
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Intel's Roadmap: Processor RoadmapJul 14, 1997 - in Reviews
A list of Intel's processors and chipsets through the 2nd half of 1998
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The Return of the Jedi: Cyrix and IBM's 6x86MX CPUMay 30, 1997 - in Reviews
Since in the beginning of April almost the whole computer world was looking at AMD, when the glorious K6 CPU was launched