Rambus swings, roadmaps and mobo roundabouts

RAMBO HAS REVEALED his latest roadmap and shown off his new signaling technology, Yellowstone, at the Rambus Developer Forum today.

V-R Zone has a nice pic of the new roadmap over here, with some interesting details. Yellowstone, they say, operates at Octal Data Rates (ODR), transferring 8 bits of data per clock. The roadmap, suggests a 64-bit RIMM 11G could deliver "a massive" 10.7GB/s of memory bandwidth. Sheesh!

Danish site, hardinfo.dk, has published what is says is the "world's first Intel 845G motherboard roundup". A goodly selection of boards is reviewed: ABIT's BG7, ACORP's 4D845G, Aopen's AX4G PRO, Chaintech's 9BJF, EpoX's EP-4G4A+, Gigabyte GA-8IGX, Iwill's mP4G, Leadtek's P4845G, MSI 845G Max and, gasp, QDI's Platinix 8A. But if your Danish is as good as mine, you'll just have to enjoy the pictures. The piece starts here.

Anglophiles may prefer AMDzone's look at Matsonic's bargain basement MS8137C Version 2.0 ATX Socket A motherboard here.

Kyle sends us a link to HardOCP.com's “sneak peek” at Intel/Asus' Dual Channel DDR chipset plans here. It's a bit early for conclusions, they say, but interesting all the same.

The daily deluge of graphics cards continues to fall. Here's Dan's look at a Triplex Millennium Silver 64Mb GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics card. “A worthy contender,” says Dan. “Good price, good overclockability, good looks. What's not to like?”

Meanwhile, the Tweakers dahn under have a fiddle with their own version of the silvery one over here.

Dan's also added four more CPU coolers to his "giant comparison". You'll find that here.

The gracious (sic) phlux mainman, Jake 'nih' Dean, says he has posted a DIY guide to building a "Cathodebus", which you can find over here.

There's a bunch of heatsinks and cases on view at systemcooling.com here, one of those tiddly 16Mb thumb drives at 3Dextreme here and a Platinum XP case from Kool Cases gets the once-over over here at modthebox.com.

Keep 'em coming, boys. µ