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While the faithful await the AM3, Fudzilla seems to think they will be let down in terms of Price/Performance.

According to Fudo, the AM3 on an AM3 board with the current BIOSes out will not give enough of a performance boost to warrant the extra cost of DDR3. He says that even with tweaks to the BIOSes there will only be a roughly 5% performance gain using an AM3 board over an AM2+.

Does this bode well for AMD? In the end I do not think it will matter. The AM3 CPUs will run happily in an AM2+ board with DDR2. This means that some will buy them and run them in current boards waiting for DDR3 prices to drop.

Others will not buy AMD anyway as they cannot compete performance wise with Intel's current and even last generation CPUs, even if they do have a price advantage.

Read more here.

Intel's i7 is a performance powerhouse, there is no denying that. However the price premium has hurt its sales and the need to switch out the whole platform is not helping either.

To help combat this Intel is going to continue the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad line until 2011. There will be no new Chipsets but the P45 and G45 will be improved to allow for this extended life cycle.

According to Fudzilla this means improved support for DDR3 on the P45 and the inclusion of DDR3 1066 support and Windows 7 enhancements on the G45.

Read more here.

In case you missed it, yesterday Foxconn issued out an announcement in excitement of the world record DDR3 memory overclock achieved from their mighty X58 based Blood RAGE motherboard.

A guy called Theo Valich (you'll know him from TG Daily and INQ, etc) has started his own blog and seems to be doing pretty well, just breaking the 50,000 page view mark.

More importantly, his latest blog post discusses the upcoming launch of NVIDIA's new and improved GeForce GTX 260 graphics card based on a 55nm manufacturing die process. Included are pictures from a Chinese website of the new GTX 260 with the new GPU.

Theo goes on with a lot of speculation including that since the new GTX 260 makes use of 14 memory chips, it can support up to 1.5GB of memory. He also goes onto to speculate that the GTX 295 (dual GTX 260 part) could end up coming with a massive 3GB of memory - all speculation remember, anything could happen.

A-DATA is launching a whole range of Triple-Channel DDR3 kits for the i7 today.

The kits will be both 3GB (3x1GB) and 6GB (3x2GB) sizes with speeds ranging from 1333MHz CL9 to 1600MHz+ CL8.

A-DATA XPG X Series DDR3-1600X (1GBx3) Kit CL7-7-7-20 at 1.75V-1.85V
A-DATA XPG X Series DDR3-1600X (2GBx3) Kit CL7-7-7-20 at 1.75V-1.85V
A-DATA XPG + Series DDR3-1600+ (1GBx3) Kit CL8-8-8-24 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG + Series DDR3-1600+ (2GBx3) Kit CL8-8-8-24 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG + Series DDR3-1333+ (1GBx3) Kit CL7-7-7-20 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG + Series DDR3-1333+ (2GBx3) Kit CL7-7-7-20 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG G Series DDR3-1600G (1GBx3) Kit CL9-9-9-24 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG G Series DDR3-1600G (2GBx3) Kit CL9-9-9-24 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG G Series DDR3-1333G (1GBx3) Kit CL8-8-8-24 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA XPG G Series DDR3-1333G (2GBx3) Kit CL8-8-8-24 at 1.65V-1.75V
A-DATA Standard Series DDR3-1333 (1GBx3) Kit CL9-9-9-28 at 1.5V
A-DATA Standard Series DDR3-1333 (2GBx3) Kit CL9-9-9-28 at 1.5V

NVIDIA has rolled out another super powered, but also super expensive Quadro series graphics card today, dubbed the Quadro FX 5800. At a price tag just shy of $3,500 U.S. this card is purely for the professional/workstation crowd and boasts some pretty mean specs.

Since the entrance of Gainward (and Palit) into the realm of AMD graphics solutions, we've seen a positive increase in the creativity levels displayed by the Sunnyvale, CA based company's AIBs.

Coinciding with the launch of Intel's new Core i7 + X58 Express platform today, Gingle has just announced its first triple-channel DDR3 memory kit.

This kit coming in either 3GB or 6GB configurations is said to work at 1600MHz DDR at 1.65 volts and scales up to 1800MHz at 1.80 volts with timings of 8-8-8-24.

It's interesting that a voltage of 1.80 volts is required since Intel recommended a voltage no higher than 1.65 volts, or it could damage your processor.

During their rounds at IDF earlier today, Fudzilla has acertained that Core i7 will in fact have an unlocked memory multiplier. It wasn't that long ago that a very sour rumour had emerged regarding Nehalem's ability (or therelackof) to run high speed (1600MHz+) DDR3 independantly of the CPU clockrate and voltage; this due to what was believed to be a limitation of the combined memory controller.

While sadly ASUS forgot to invite us to its X58 launch event last week in Taipei, A-DATA were kind enough to send through plenty of data about the event for us to talk about right here.

Team Group has today announced its latest high-end overclocking series DDR3 memory.

The so-called "Overclocking Heroic Duo" DDR3 memory by Team comes in a 4GB dual-channel kit and runs at either 2000MHz or 1800MHz DDR. The modules feature an 8-layer PCB design and over-sized Xtreem heatsink to keep things nice and cool.

There appears to be a new competitor ready to get a foothold in the, increasingly competitive, memory marketplace.

The lads at PCGamesHardware have become the first to lay eyes on PowerColor's HD 4870 PCS OC, with the interesting aspect of this card not so much being the superior Zerotherm cooling solution and higher clock speeds, but the choice to go with double the memory at 1GB GDDR5.

All the partners' HD 4850 cards we've seen hit shelves thus far tend to be much of the reference design, but PowerColor have taken a huge step away from the same ole' approach by whacking on 2GB of GDDR3 memory. This is a huge leap from the usual 512MB, and although probably overkill, it should certainly help the card under higher resolutions where the memory buffer is more likely to be filled.

Contrary to conflicting reports, AMD's eagerly anticipated HD 4870X2 will indeed ship with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, according to confirmation received by Fudzilla.

Are you the type of person that wants the fastest of everything? Sure you are - and you will love this. A-DATA has today launched what they are calling the world's fastest Compact Flash memory card at a remarkable 350x.

A-DATA's Compact Flash 16GB Ultra cards sport read speeds up to 52MB/s and write speeds up to 47MB/s.

MSI held its ECOlution press conference in Taipei this afternoon and it was quite an upbeat event with fancy green dancers, attended by a sizeable audience of local Taiwanese press.

Memory maker Apacer has just released the new Aeolus series of DDR3 memory modules, initially comprising both DDR3-1600MHz and 1800MHz overclocking parts.