by Grigoriy Gubankov
04/25/2003 | 07:39 PM
Last time here at X-bit Watch we told you about numerous AMD Opteron reviews that appeared on the release day. But you are wrong thinking that there is nothing interesting here for you anymore because Opteron reviews from AnandTech definitely worth reading. Despite of the fact that they appeared slightly later than other articles, they contain plenty of interesting details. Anand divided their Opteron coverage into 4 parts: Intro to Opteron/K8 Architecture, Enterprise Performance, The First Servers Arrive and, finally, Desktop Performance. You certainly should not miss this review.
<%BANNER[article]%>The Inquirer has an article claiming that Intel had pressured different vendors and persuaded them not to show any products during AMD Opteron launch. As a result, quite a lot of companies, presumably including TYAN, MSI, ATI, and NVIDIA as well as some others did not showcased anything at launch; moreover, some of the mentioned still have no indications about their new products intended for Opteron CPUs on their web-sites. We will never know if all this is truth or not, but frankly speaking, Intel is renowned for putting pressure on various developers, manufacturers and others in order to force them doing exactly what the semiconductor giant wants. Read the whole thing here.
Lost Circuits has reviewed Zalman CNPS7000-AlCu, a version of quite famous CNPS7000-Cu cooler with partially aluminium heat-sink. They compared both products between each other and came to a rather unusual conclusion: “AlCu heatsink performs better than the heatsink made of copper at all fan rotation speeds”. Read the article here.
Modfactor.com has a review of a rather unusual 17" LCD monitor from Samsung - Samsung Tantus LTM 1775W. The uniqueness of this babe is that it can act as a HDTV (and ordinary TV), so you may watch TV programs without a TV tuner card and switch seamlessly between a monitor and TV-set modes. Read more about this solution here.
BusinessWeek Online has an editorial about Wi-Fi technology as a rival of contemporary cellular networks. They concluded that Wi-Fi at present state of development could not pose serious threat to mainstream cellular communication industry, however… read the details here.
As you have probably heard, Microsoft has rolled out its new OS for servers, branded as Windows 2003 Server. The name of this operating system was changed a number a times in the past, so, if you heard about something like Windows.NET or Windows.NET 2003, in fact you, heard about Windows 2003 Server. Microsoft is putting great hopes on this product, because many of its clients still run their servers on Windows NT and the biggest software developer wants to encourage them to upgrade their operating system. In order to make the new product more attractive, mighty Microsoft has added a number of nice features in Windows 2003 Server, including greater security, more comfortable administering tools, new IIS6 web-server and, of course, their new .NET services. If you want to learn about differences between the good-old Windows 2000 Server and the new Windows 2003 Server, you should read this review from PC Magazine.