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Latest News


- Microsoft Rolls out the SideWinder X6 Keyboard and X5 Mouse
- Razer Fires up the Megalodon Headset and its Maelstrom Audio Engine
- OCZ Upgrades their Core Solid-State Drive Line to V2
- CoolIT Unleashes the Dual Drive Bay VGA Cooler for the Radeon HD 4870 X2
- Mushkin Launches a New Line of HP3-10666 DDR3 Low-Latency Modules
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Features

- SharkyExtreme.com: Interview with Microsoft's Dan Odell
- SharkyExtreme.com: Interview with ATI's Terry Makedon
- SharkyExtreme.com: Interview with Seagate's Joni Clark
- Half-Life 2 Review
- DOOM 3 Review

Buyer's Guides

- July High-end Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- May Value Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- March Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide

HARDWARE

  • CPUs

    - AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE & 9350e Review

  • Motherboards

    - AMD 790GX Chipset Review
    - Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 Motherboard Review
    - AMD 780G Chipset Review

  • Video Cards

    - PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB Review




    • Available at 500 MHz and 550 MHz. 'E' denotes support for Advanced Transfer Cache and Advanced System Buffering
    • 0.18 micron Process Technology
    • System bus frequency at 100 MHz
    • 256 KB Advanced Transfer Cache. On-die, full speed Level 2 (L2) cache with Error Correcting Code (ECC)
    • Dual Independent Bus (DIB) architecture: Separate dedicated external System Bus and dedicated internal high-speed cache bus
    • Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions for enhanced video, sound and 3D performance
    • Binary compatible with applications running on previous members of the Intel microprocessor line
    • Dynamic execution micro architecture
    • Intel Processor Serial Number
    • Power Management capabilities
        System Management mode
        Multiple low-power states
    • Optimized for 32-bit applications running on advanced 32-bit operating systems
    • Flip Chip Pin Grid Array (FC-PGA) packaging technology; FC-PGA processors deliver high performance with improved handling protection and socketability
    • Integrated high performance 16 KB instruction and 16 KB data, nonblocking, level one cache
    • Double Quad Word Wide (256bit) cache data bus provides extremely high throughput on read/store operations.
    • 8-way cache associativity provides improved cache hit rate on reads/store operations.
    • Error-correcting code for System Bus data
    • 28 Million Transistors
    • 106mm2 Die Size
    • Multi-voltage capability: 1.1V-1.7V
    • On-die GTL+ termination
    • 256 KB, Level 2 Advanced Transfer Cache Features:
        Non-Blocking, full speed, on-die level 2 cache
        8-way set associativity
        256-bit data bus to the level 2 cache
        Reduced latency interface to cache data (4X reduction vs. versus Katmai PIII)





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