IBM Clarifies on why they ditched AMD [Mark Lewis]

This reason still is kinda stupid. The worst decision IBM has made in a while. Most IBM people think that Intel is god and is still faster than the AMD's cpu's anyway. Oh well. Maybe they'll come to their senses later.

IBM also sells mainly to the corporate marketplace, where AMD has never enjoyed much popularity. AMD has been successful mostly in the consumer and "white box" (custom-made PCs) markets, which focus on either price and performance or, in the case of the gaming market, raw power. In contrast, the corporate marketplace focuses more on overall system issues, including consistency across large desktop populations, and on vendor reputation. In this market, IBM does not want the cost of dealing with potential customer objections to AMD.

Tuesday August 14th

Weekly Dream and Value Computers

Sysmark 2000 biased against Athlon  [Mark Lewis]

Vanshardware has a benchmark of the Palamino vs the Athlon. The Athlon MP 1.2 Ghz scored a 237 on the Photoshop 5.5 Benchmark while the Athlon 1.4 Ghz only scored an 185. Which proves that BapCo, the company we always figured was biased has indeed "rigged" their benchmark to make the P3 and P4 look better. See it here

ATI has a new Radeon with 3D Now Support  [Mark Lewis]

RADEON(TM) 8500: Designed with the most advanced graphics technology in the world, the RADEON 8500 delivers up to 33 percent higher performance than the nearest competitive graphics processor(1). Major technological advancements include TRUFORM(TM), an innovative rendering technology that helps to deliver the smoothest, most natural 3D images ever seen on existing and next-generation 3D games; and SMARTSHADER(TM), an advanced technology that takes advantage of the new Microsoft DirectX 8.1 API (application programming interface) to enable more complex and realistic texture and lighting effects without sacrificing performance, including supporting Pixel Shaders Version 1.4.
-- RADEON(TM) 7500: This graphics processor offers an ideal combination of performance, innovative 3D features and real value for mainstream commercial and consumer computer users. It delivers up to a 60 percent improvement in performance compared to the previous generation of RADEON high-performance processors(2). The RADEON 7500 targets the performance mainstream, offering a level of performance not seen at its price point; and
-- FIRE GL(TM) 8800: Combining the FIRE GL's pioneering workstation reputation and software excellence in OpenGL with ATI's new industry-leading technology, the FIRE GL 8800 is easily the most affordable mid-range 3D graphics board for CAD/CAM and the modeling and animation aspects of digital content and creation.

AMD is losing some proccesors to make room for new ones  [Mark Lewis]

AMD, the supplier of CPU chips that are used on many of our products, has notified us that they plan to re-tool the production line that currently produces 486, 586 and K6 CPU chips. AMD needs to use their Fab 25 facility to produce a different line of products and will stop production on these CPU chips on June 28, 2002. The CPU chips produced by this facility are used in our VSBC-2, VSBC-6, VSBC-7, Panther, VL-686-2, and VL-586-1 products.

Sunday August 12th

MSI releases Palamino Motherboard list  [Mark Lewis]

MSI has released a list of their motherboards that support Palamino

VIA KLE 133
MS-6378

VIA KM 133
MS-6340M

VIA KT 133A
K7T Turbo
K7T Turbo Limited Edition
MS-6330 Lite
K7TM Pro
MS-6340 Lite

VIA KT 266
K7T266 Pro
MS-6380 Lite

AMD 760
K7 Master

Thursday August 9th

1.5 Ghz Palamino, Duron 1 Ghz, 1.2 Ghz Mobile [Mark Lewis]

1.5 Ghz Palamino, Duron 1 Ghz and 1.2 Ghz Athlon 4 are coming in September.

Thursday August 8th

Dual Linux Comparison  [Mark Lewis]

GamePC has compared dual Athlons to a dual Xeon and dual PIII system in Linux.

1U Athlon MP Server  [Mark Lewis]

Anandtech has an article about them upgrading to an Athlon Dual Server here.

New Epox 8K7A 8.02 BIOS  [Mark Lewis]

Amdmb.com Has the newest Epox 8K7A BIOS. Check it out here.

Massive KT266 Mboard reviews  [Mark Lewis]

Tom's Hardware has reviewed and compared 16 KT266 Mboards here.

AMD Works on its Megahertz image  [Mark Lewis]

Over at Cnet they have an article talking about how AMD is going to try to make people think that just becuase of the megahertz it isn't neccesarily faster becuase AMD is lagging behind by 500 mhz.