Two stories, word-for-word at the time of this posting here on gE. Xbit Labs wrote their story on 6/22, and the same story again appeared on Sudhian on 6/23. The problem is that the Sudhian editors didn't give Xbit any credit, something that is either very irresponsible, or blatantly misleading. I personally think that the Sudhian guys are way above this kind of thing, & it was some kind of oversight on someone's part, but...

ANYWAY, the news is the same, & you should give the article a read, because it's talking about how AMD will bring SLi-like performance to their AM2 line of CPUs with a simple BIOS & driver upgrade. Both cores of your processor will be able to hack away at your single-threaded apps (read: games) as one unit, & the performance will, obviously, be something gamers should be very interested in.

The Shrimpies see just how far they can push an X6800 Core 2 from Intel with just air-cooling. I'm still not quite sure what that little keychain-lookin' thing is that seems to find its way into many of their photos...

"With the release of Core 2 from Intel approaching we take a look at how much headroom the X6800 (Extreme Edition) has left, clocked at 2.93Ghz we push it to the limit using high end air cooling."

The guys at Phoronix take a look at the upcoming fully-buffered memory that Intel's starting to throw their weight behind, & its impact on server performance. They run some FB-DIMMs on a Xeon Greencreek platform, & show off the numbers.

"FB-DIMMs are designed to bring the best traits from DDR2 memory while combining a new point-to-point serial memory interface. Some of the key benefits for Fully Buffered DIMMs include enhanced reliability, greater bandwidth, improved scalability, and higher capacity per memory channel."

As further confirmation that I won't be buying anything having to do with DDR2, SiS has announced that they'll be rolling out their DDR3-based chipsets sometime in late 2007. Let's see, that leaves less than 1.5 years of DDR2 as the desktop mainstream... SKIP IT.

"The company also indicated that two other northbridges, the SiS672 (for the Intel platform) and SiS772 (for the AMD platform), will be the first SiS products manufactured under a 80nm CMOS process. Samples will presumably be available from early in the second quarter of 2007, and mass production is aimed to commence later in that quarter."