This site contains miscellaneous links to various bits of computer hardware information which I find interesting. Most of the links are related to CPUs. I made this list primarily for my own reference, but feel free to have a look yourself. Be warned that you may find this list uninteresting, incomplete, silly, ridiculous, ugly, hard to read, or all of the above. I do not claim that all of the information contained in the links is 100% accurate or completely unbiased. Viewer discretion is advised. There are no scheduled updates to this site, although I expect new links to be added in the future.
-eRacer 4/20/06
CATEGORIES: AMD only, Intel only, CPU - General, Video Cards, Other
AMD only
| Puma | Notebook Journal.de | June 4, 2008 | Puma review with benchmarks. |
| Interview | Hardware Zone | June 1, 2008 | AMD - Loaded and Back in Action. AMD talks about current and future products. |
| Roadmap | Hexus | May 7, 2008 | Updated AMD server roadmap through 2010. Bulldozer-based CPUs and 8-core CPUs in previous roadmaps are gone. New 6-core and 12-core CPUs for 2010 added. |
| Presentation | AMD | December 13, 2007 | 2007 Financial Analyst Day presentations. |
| SSE5 | Anandtech | August 30, 2007 | Details on newly announced SSE5 instructions from AMD. |
| Griffin | CNET | August 21, 2007 | Upcoming mobile Griffin core not much different than K8. |
| Presentation | PC Perspective | July 26, 2007 | AMD Analyst Day slides and info. |
| Roadmap | Digitimes | June 23, 2007 | AMD to release 45-nm CPUs in H2 2008. Socket AM3 to be backward compatible with AM2 and AM2+. |
| Finance | InfoWorld | June 18, 2007 | AMD looking to stress chip development rather than production to reduce costs. |
| Griffin | PC Watch | May 21, 2007 | Griffin presentation slides. More Griffin-related info here. Even more Griffin details here. |
| Barcelona | CNET | May 21, 2007 | AMD shows off Barcelona performance in POV-Ray. YouTube demo video here. Another video with general description of performance here. Intel's V8 response and AMD reply. |
| Griffin | Anandtech | May 18, 2007 | AMD's Next-Generation Mobile Architecture Revealed: Griffin |
| Barcelona | Digitimes | May 17, 2007 | Part 1 of an interview with AMD's Patrick Patla about Barcelona. Part 2 is here. |
| Barcelona | Dititimes | May 16, 2007 | Barcenlona delayed from June to August or September? |
| Barcelona | Real World Technologies | May 16, 2007 | Barcelona architecture analysis. |
| Phenom | AMD | May 14, 2007 | Next gen AMD desktop CPUs to get Phenom name. |
| Sales | CRN | May 7, 2007 | AMD channel opportunities and problems. |
| Sales | CPILive.net | April 15, 2007 | Henri Richard talks about AMD channel business and confirms Barcelona Q3 launch and desktop K10 available in Q4 2007. |
| Finance | Beyond3D | April 11, 2007 | Analysis of AMD's financial condition. |
| Conference | blip.tv | April 9, 2007 | AMD Tunis conference about R600, etc. |
| Interview | HardwareZone | April 2, 2007 | AMD on the Rebound: A Chat With Henri Richard |
| Roadmap | Extremetech | March 1, 2007 | AMD talks about R600 and Barcelona performance. |
| Chipset | iXBT | February 28, 2007 | AMD 690 chipset presentation slides. |
| Presentation | EETimes | February 28, 2007 | Barcelona 42% faster in floating-point than Clovertown X5355, double digit increase in integer performance. AMD demoed two 200W R600 video cards as well. |
| Fusion | PC Watch | February 28, 2007 | Fusion info and slides. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | February 23, 2007 | Barcelona rumored specs. |
| Interview | CRN | February 23, 2007 | Interview with Hector Ruiz. |
| Sales | DigiTimes | February 16, 2007 | AMD aiming for 30% of the quad-core server CPU market by end of 2007. |
| Finance | ESM | February 15, 2007 | AMD rumors of leveraged buy-out, and AMD possibly facing cash crunch this year. |
| Production | Semiconductor Fabtech | February 5, 2007 | No high-k metal gate CPUs from AMD until late 2009 at the earliest. |
| Interview | Hexus | February 1, 2007 | Video Barcelona interview with AMD's Patrick Patla. |
| Fusion | PC Watch | January 31, 2007 | Fusion article about possibilities and limitations. |
| Roadmap | Planet 3DNow! | January 30, 2007 | AMD roadmap through 2008 with new 2008 code names. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | December 28, 2006 | Stars (K8L) CPUs to make up 10% Q3 07 shipments, 20% Q4, and >60% Q1 08. Stars to include SSE4A. |
| Presentation | EPS Contest | December 14, 2006 | AMD 2006 Analyst Day slides. |
| Quad-core | Ars Technica | December 6, 2006 | Comments on AMD Barcelona architecture. |
| Quad-core | HKEPC | December 5, 2006 | Rumored AMD quad-core specs for 2007. |
| 65-nm | Electronic News | December 5, 2006 | AMD announces 65-nm CPUs. |
| 65-nm | Semiconductor Fabtech | December 5, 2006 | Claims AMD 65-nm CPU "uses minimum gate lengths of 35nm, nine copper and one aluminum metal levels, strained silicon channel and a Silicon on Insulator (SOI) substrate". |
| FAB38 | Solid State Technology | December 5, 2006 | First wafer outs for FAB 38 planned for Q1 2008. |
| Quad-Core | Yahoo! Finance | November 30, 2006 | AMD's first quad-core demo. |
| Fusion | HardOCP | November 16, 2006 | AMD Fusion presentation slides. |
| Roadmap | DailyTech | November 14, 2006 | AMD 2007 roadmap. |
| Production | CRN | November 3, 2006 | AMD facing severe channel chipset shortages. |
| Roadmap | TGDaily | November 3, 2006 | AMD updated roadmap and codenames. |
| ATI buyout | HardOCP | October 27, 2006 | AMD and ATI acquisition presentation slides. |
| Fusion | Macworld | October 25, 2006 | AMD plans to combine CPU and GPU by early 2009. Project is codenamed Fusion. |
| Dell | News.com | October 23, 2006 | Dell introduces its first two AMD servers. |
| K8L | Channel Insider | October 10, 2006 | AMD Barcelona specs. The Inquirer also has some analysis. |
| Chipsets | ChiliHardWare | October 6, 2006 | ATI roadmap through much of 2007 posted with several marketing slides. |
| Presentation | Digit-Life | October 6, 2006 | VIA Technology Forum 2006 with a lot of AMD info. |
| K8L | HKEPC | October 5, 2006 | Dynamic I/O bus introduced in K8L architecture. HT frequency to vary by CPU frequency. |
| K8L | HKEPC | October 4, 2006 | Info about H2 2007 desktop K8L CPUs. Includes new code names Altair, Antares, Arcturus, Spica. Socket AM2+ and Socket F+ coincide with HT 3.0 launch. |
| Chartered | DigiTimes | October 4, 2006 | AMD validates Chartered 65-nm production which is expected to start in H1 2007. |
| K8L | DigiTimes | October 3, 2006 | AMD to postpone DDR3 adoption until 45-nm in 2008, first desktop quad-core K8L to use Socket AM2+. |
| Roadmap | Planet 3DNow! | September 28, 2006 | AMD roadmap through end of 2006. |
| Bulldozer | LaptopLogic | September 27, 2006 | LaptopLogic claims Bulldozer not due until late 45-nm or even 32-nm despite their previous report here of Bulldozer in mid-2007. |
| 65-nm | HKEPC | September 25, 2006 | The 65-nm Athlon 64 X2 with 1MBx2 L2 cache may be dropped in favor of a 100MHz clock speed increase. |
| K8L | Digit-Life | September 22, 2006 | AMD Moscow server presentation including K8L info. Includes many official AMD slides. |
| Roadmap | Tweakers.net | September 22, 2006 | List of AMD CPUs to be launched later in 2006 including the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. Athlon 64 FX transitions to Socket-F. |
| Interview | CNet | September 22, 2006 | Phil Hestor claims CPU/GPU integration at 45-nm in 2008. |
| Sales | Silicon Investor | September 12, 2006 | Post of Lehman Brothers report of their position on AMD's short- and long-term outlook. Claims AMD's ASPs in Q2 06 were $94 compared to Intel's $125. |
| 65-nm | The Inquirer | September 8, 2006 | AMD to start shipping 65-nm in October. |
| Dell | The Inquirer | September 8, 2006 | Dell AMD desktop line-up revealed with model names and specs. |
| ATI buyout | ATI | September 6, 2006 | ATI revenue to fall $100+ million short of expectations in Q4 2006. |
| 65-nm | The Inquirer | September 5, 2006 | First AMD 65-nm CPUs to be at 1.35V. This XtremeSystems post suggests it might be 1.25V instead. |
| Dell | DigiTimes | September 4, 2006 | Dell to use 20 million AMD CPUs between Q4 2006 and Q4 2007. |
| Chipsets | DigiTimes | August 30, 2006 | AMD-ATI to launch new notebook platform in Q4 with new ATI chipsets. |
| 65-nm | The Inquirer | August 26, 2006 | AMD rumored to have frequency scaling problems at target voltages for 65-nm CPUs. |
| Chipsets | The Register | August 22, 2006 | Next gen ATI chipsets for Intel systems dropped from roadmap. Digitimes also mentions the roadmap change. |
| Dell | X-bit labs | August 20, 2006 | Dell may order 1.4 - 2.1 million AMD notebooks by year-end according to Citigroup. |
| 65-nm | Semiconductor Fabtech | August 18, 2006 | AMD 65-nm wafers shipping, may end up in Dell desktops soon. |
| Dell | News.com | August 17, 2006 | Dell orders about 2 million AMD systems, both desktop and notebook. |
| Quad-core | AMD | August 15, 2006 | AMD launches DDR2 Opterons and announces quad-core tape-out. |
| Production | Digitimes | August 14, 2006 | AMD aims to ship 9.8 million Socket-AM2 and Socket-939 Athlon 64 X2 processors in H2 2006. In H1 2006 AMD shipped 1.6 million X2 CPUs. |
| Review | X-bit labs | August 11, 2006 | Athlon 64 X2 3600+ review. |
| ATI buyout | DriverHeaven | August 11, 2006 | Dave Orton interview. |
| ATI buyout | CRN | August 11, 2006 | CRN interviews Pat Moorhead. |
| Integrated GPU | PC Pro | August 8, 2006 | Integrated GPU would be simple and target low cost markets. |
| Production | HKEPC | August 7, 2006 | AMD plans huge processor ramp in Q3 and Q4 2006 and expecting to sell 46 million desktop CPUs this year. Included chart shows unit volumes for each CPU family. |
| ATI buyout | Custom PC | August 7, 2006 | AMD dropping ATI brand. Follow up article claims ATI brand will not be axed. |
| Dell | ZDNet Asia | August 4, 2006 | Dell to introduce AMD laptops as early as October. |
| Sales | Digitimes | August 2, 2006 | AMD aims to ship over million Socket 754 Sempron CPUs in emerging markets in 3Q. |
| Review | X-bit labs | August 2, 2006 | Energy Efficient Athlon 64 X2 review. |
| Pricing | DailyTech | August 2, 2006 | Opteron revision F pricing. |
| ATI buyout | Digitimes | July 25, 2006 | Part 1 of Henri Richard interview about ATI acquision. Part 2 is here. |
| ATI buyout | PCMag.com | July 24, 2006 | Meyer comments about direction of AMD/ATI. |
| ATI buyout | PC Pro | July 24, 2006 | Ruiz and Orton talk about benefits of acquision. |
| Quad-core | DailyTech | July 22, 2006 | AMD to demo quad-core late this year with a mid-2007 launch expected. |
| Conference call | SeekingAlpha | July 20, 2006 | AMD Q2 2006 earnings conference call transcript. |
| Pricing | DailyTech | July 17, 2006 | Drastic desktop price cuts expected July 24, larger than previously expected. |
| Pricing | DailyTech | July 17, 2006 | AMD mobile prices including 10/23. |
| Roadmap | Digitimes | July 10, 2006 | Digitimes reports no K8L on AM3 until 2008. |
| Economics | The Inquirer | July 7, 2006 | AMD revenues will miss guidance in Q2 2006. |
| AM3 | DailyTech | July 6, 2006 | Socket AM2 compatible with AM3 CPUs, but Socket AM3 not compatible with AM2 CPUs. |
| Pricing | HKEPC | June 27, 2006 | Upcoming price cut chart showed for standard and EE AMD desktop CPUs. |
| Production | Reuters | June 23, 2006 | AMD plans for $3.2 billion fab in New York with production scheduled to start in 2010 at the earliest. |
| Roadmap | DailyTech | June 22, 2006 | End of life dates listed for AMD CPUs. |
| Dell | The Inquirer | June 22, 2006 | Dell to sell a lot of AMD notebooks and desktops this fall. |
| Revision F Opteron | DailyTech | June 21, 2006 | Rev. F Opteron details including naming scheme and high watt 2.8GHz parts at launch. |
| Roadmap | Tech Report | June 14, 2006 | AMD is killing 1MBx2 L2 cache Athlon 64 AM2 CPUs only a few weeks after launch. Other models also being cut by the end of Q2. |
| Pricing | DailyTech | June 11, 2006 | Big Athlon 64 X2 price cuts due on July 24th. |
| Roadmap | Real World Technologies | June 10, 2006 | Anonymous forum member posts rev. GH rumor. |
| Socket F | The Inquirer | June 10, 2006 | Socket-F delayed due to Foxconn socket manufacturing problems. |
| ATI merger | TweakTown | June 8, 2006 | Intel considers AMD/ATI merger likely. |
| Efficeon | AMD | June 6, 2006 | AMD markets Efficeon processors. |
| Interview | Business Week | June 5, 2006 | Ruiz talks about Torrenza and says "battle is no longer about the core. Customers are looking for architectural performance, innovation." |
| Bulldozer | LaptopLogic | June 3, 2006 | Bulldozer mobile CPU speculation. |
| Production | AMD | May 29, 2006 | AMD converting FAB30 to FAB38 with 300mm 65-nm production in 2007. EE Times article. |
| Production | AMD | May 26, 2006 | AMD stresses no tight capacity. |
| AM2 performance | Anandtech | May 24, 2006 | nForce 590 SLI versus nForce4 SLI X16 chipsets. |
| AM2 reviews | Hot Hardware | May 23, 2006 | New AM2 benchmarked on nForce 590 SLI and RD580 chipsets. RD580 much better on power consumption. Other interesting AM2 reviews: t-break, Matbe, X-bit labs, Lost Circuits, and Tom's Hardware Guide. |
| Roadmap | Anandtech | May 24, 2006 | Revision G info including that 65-nm Deerfield feature similar to current 90-nm CPUs (not K8L). |
| Mobile | The Inquirer | May 22, 2006 | AMD designing new mobile CPU codenamed Bulldozer. |
| Opteron | PC Watch | May 19, 2006 | Chuck Moore at Spring Processor Forum talks about K8L, Opteron energy efficiency. |
| Dell | News.com | May 18, 2006 | Dell announces Opteron support for high end (4S) servers due by end of 2006. |
| Interview | TechNewsWorld | May 18, 2006 | Marty Seyer interview claiming "AMD is going to be the leader in performance per watt per dollar". |
| Roadmap | Anandtech | May 18, 2006 | No quad-core K8L until 2008. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | May 18, 2006 | Desktop quad-core K8L in H1 2008, server quad-core K8L in H2 2008. |
| Roadmap | Electronic News | May 17, 2006 | Chuck Moore claims next gen architecture available in H1 2007. |
| Turion X2 performance | Matbe.com | May 17, 2006 | First full review of Turion X2. Turion X2 had relatively disappointing performance and battery life compared to equally clocked Core Duo. |
| K8L | Chip Architect | May 16, 2006 | Picture of 65-nm K8L versus dual-core rev. F. Another comparison here. Hans analysis here at Silicon Investor. |
| Market share | Yahoo! Finance | May 16, 2006 | Eric Ross lowers price target due to plummeting prices and skyrocketing inventory. |
| K8L | The Inquirer | May 16, 2006 | K8L specs released. More at Real World Technologies, The Register, and News.com. |
| Energy-efficient CPUs | AMD | May 16, 2006 | AMD press release about new energy-efficient processor lineup. |
| K10 | Silicon Investor | May 15, 2006 | Hans De Vries explanation why K10 was killed. |
| Roadmap | The Inquirer | May 15, 2006 | AMD rumored to hit 3.4GHz this year on 65-nm. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | May 15, 2006 | Athlon 64 X2 65-nm to launch in December at maximum of 2.4GHz/4800+ to OEMs only. VR-Zone comments. |
| L3 cache | The Inquirer | May 11, 2006 | Deerhound to only have 2MB L3 in 2007. Cerberus and Wolfhound to have 6MB L3 cache in 2008. |
| Roadmap | Digitimes | May 11, 2006 | Turion X2 to launch May 17 and AM2 to launch May 23. |
| Interview | SmartMoney Magazine | May 10, 2006 | Hector Ruiz interview. |
| Interview | The Register | May 10, 2006 | Henri Richard interview with The Register. He is asked about AMD's current and future situation in light of Intel's upcoming NGA processor launches. |
| Geode | Epiacenter.com | May 10, 2006 | Geode NX DB1500 review. |
| Market share | Ace's Hardware | May 8, 2006 | Mercury reports A64 X2 equalled 7% of Q1 06 shipments which is a 3% increase from Q4 05. |
| Athlon 64 AM2 performance | t-break | May 7, 2006 | Benchmarks of single-core AM2 Athlon 64 3500+ with DDR2-667 and DDR2-800 compared to S939 Athlon 64 3500+. Poor performance. Early revision? |
| Roadmap | DigiTimes | May 3, 2006 | Another story about Turion X2 delayed from May 9 to June. |
| Roadmap | PC Watch | May 3, 2006 | PC Watch version of AMD's roadmap. Includes new additions such as Zamora and Cadiz. |
| Opteron recall | AMD | April 28, 2006 | AMD recalls 3,000 x52 and x54 Opterons which may produce FP errors under load and high temps. The Inquirer and The Register weigh in on the issue. |
| FAB36 | EETimes | April 27, 2006 | AMD's Hans Deppe says FAB36 ramp on schedule. The first 65-nm product will be a dual-core desktop Athlon 64 and will be ready in H2 2006. |
| FAB36 | PC Watch | April 25, 2006 | AMD manufacturing slides including SiGE info and PCWatch node roadmap for AMD and Intel. MYCOM PC WEB has several slides posted as well. |
| Hypertransport | DailyTech | April 24, 2006 | Hypertransport 3.0 ratified. Article lists a few features of HT 3.0. |
| Rumor mill | Ace's Hardware | April 24, 2006 | Charlie Demerjian (Groo_) speculates about K8L and fates of K9 and K10 in this thread. |
| Interview | AMDZone | April 2006 | Damon Muzny interview. Claims 65nm wafer starts will account for more than 50% of total production at Fab 36 by early 2007, and on track for 45nm production in Fab 36 by mid 2008. |
| Athlon 64 AM2 performance | Anandtech | April 14, 2006 | Another Socket AM2 preview with focus on DDR2 versus DDR performance. |
| FAB36 | EETimes | April 13, 2006 | Fab36 ramping slower than expected? |
| Athlon 64 AM2 performance | Anandtech | April 10, 2006 | Socket AM2 preview with improved memory controller performance. |
| K10 | x86-secret | April 9, 2006 | AMD K10 "anti-hyperthreading" rumors. Google English translation is here. |
| 65-nm conversion | Tweakers.net | April 4, 2006 | AMD 65-nm conversion article including picture of single-core 65-nm CPU. My visual comparison of the 65-nm core to a rev. F core is here. |
| 65-nm conversion | Semiconductor Fabtech | early April 2006 | FAB36 65-nm conversion complete Q4 2007. Ramping to 20,000 wspm instead of 13,000 wspm. |
| Roadmap | DailyTech | March 31, 2006 | Socket-754 to outlast Socket-939. Last orders for Venice in Q2 2006. |
| Turion X2 | PC-Welt | March 17, 2006 | Turion to launch on May 9th with 25W and 35W versions, at speeds up to 2.2GHz, and with 512KB or 1MB L2 cache (most of which was later proven wrong). |
| Interview | DigiTimes | March 13, 2006 | Re-defining microprocessors: Q&A with AMD’s Henri Richard - Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. |
| Roadmap | TGDaily | March 6, 2006 | Ruiz claims AMD may concentrate less on consumer PCs to focus on commercial processor market. |
| Athlon 64 AM2 performance | Tom's Hardware Guide | February 21, 2006 | Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ performance preview with old engineering sample showing poor memory bandwidth. |
| Athlon 64 FX | The Inquirer | February 16, 2006 | Charlie expects Athlon 64 FX to get L3 cache "sooner rather than later". |
| Roadmap | The Inquirer | March 3, 2006 | Charlie talks about upcoming revision F, G, and H CPUs from AMD. |
| DDR2 ramp | X-bit Labs | December 14, 2005 | AMD DDR2 CPUs to make up 25% of Q2 2006 shipments. |
| Production | PCWorld | December 7, 2005 | AMD, IBM Team on Speedier Chips: New forms of strained silicon bolster 65-nanometer chip-making technique. |
| Architecture | Anandtech | October 14, 2005 | Phil Hester speaks about next gen CPUs from AMD. |
| Performance comparison | X-bit Labs | October 12, 2005 | Sempron-754 vs. Sempron-939 vs. A64-939. |
| Athlon 64 production | EPS Contest | June 10, 2005 | Athlon 64 and Sempron ramp chart Q2 04 - Q2 05. |
| Quad-core | The Inquirer | June 6, 2005 | Charlie hears rumors of quad-core AMD CPU for Q1 2006. |
| Quad-core | The Register | April 26, 2005 | Ruiz says quad-core to sample in 2007. |
| Memory performance | Techconnect Magazine | April 20, 2005 | Performance comparison between single- and dual-channel memory on Athlon 64 4000+. |
| Performance comparison | X-bit Labs | April 3, 2005 | Newcastle, Winchester and Venice performance compared. |
| Architecture | Anandtech | March 31, 2005 | Fred Weber speaks about the future of AMD processors. |
| Mobile roadmap | AMD | June 2004 | AMD mobile roadmap Q2-04 through Q3-05. |
| Ruiz interview | SiliconInvestor | May 31, 2004 | Merril Lynch and AMD Jospeh Osha chats with Hector Ruiz. AMD plans for 2004/2005. |
| Dell | eWeek | April 23, 2004 | Ruiz expects Dell to support Opteron by two year anniversary of Opteron. |
| McGrath presentation | Tech Report | March 2, 2004 | Future Athlon 64s to include SSE3 support and other improvements. Kevin McGrath Stanford presentation. |
| Buffer overflow protection | CBS MarketWatch | December 16, 2003 | AMD grabs key security advantage preventing buffer overflow code execution. |
| Roadmap | The Inquirer | November 12, 2003 | Opteron roadmap through 2006 with K9 listed. |
| Roadmap | Extremetech | November 6, 2003 | Massive AMD roadmap update. Newcastle to be 150 mm^2. |
| Presentation | AMD 2003 Reseller Seminar | November 6, 2003 | Detailed information on roadmaps and benchmarks AMD is using to promote Athlon 64. Total of 39 pictures. Click here for the picture index. |
| Roadmap | AMD | November 2003 | Athlon 64 / Athlon 64 FX roadmap Q4 2003 - Q3 2004. |
| Power specs | AMD | November 2003 | Athlon 64 / Athlon 64 FX power spec chart for 130-nm and 90-nm CPUs. |
| Athlon 64 production | Inquirer | October 1, 2003 | Athlon production estimates for 2004. |
| Roadmap | Unknown | October 2003 | Off-base speculation on Athlon XP/64/FX release dates. |
| Roadmap | AMD | June 2003 | Athlon 64 roadmap Q3 2003 - Q4 2004. |
| IBM/AMD partnership | EE Times | January 10, 2003 | IBM and AMD partnership. |
| Clawhammer performance | X-bit Labs | June 12, 2002 | First ever Clawhammer benchmarks. |
| Clawhammer delay | EE Times | May 1, 2001 | AMD delays Hammer processors. |
| Clawhammer delay | CNET News.com | April 27, 2001 | AMD delays Hammer release. Mentions other AMD processors as well. |
| Interview | Electronics Supply & Manufacturing | August 25, 2000 | Hector Ruiz interview talking about Mustang and chip codename changes, XBox loss and more. |
| Roadmap | AMD | 2000 | AMD processor roadmap 2000 - 2001. |
| Athlon performance | FiringSquad | May 22, 1999 | K7 550 preview article which spawned rumors of poor Athlon performance. |
