Anyone else notice theyre using Corsair XMS - is this really an operational QBM demonstration with beta QBM XMS, or are Via pulling a swift one and blowing normal dually DDR smoke up peoples ass ?

OK..I am a bit confused here. The via QBM sounds pretty cool, but I thought that Athlon 64 had a built in memory controller. Doesn't that mean the memory goes directly to the A64 and bypasses the north bridge? If that is so does this mean VIA's chipset overides this? Actually now that I think about maybe it would work like this...1 channel goes to the a64 controller and another goes to the Via northbridge, all from one dim. Then the northbridge must combine both channels. I guess that would work with the single channel athlon64. When you decide to use the traditional meathod Via might of been able to bypass the a64 memory controller completly. Therefore making it funtcion similar to the current memory controllers. If that is the case then the increased latency, from not having a cpu integrated memory controller, might cancel out most of the performance you get. If you have a64 with 2 channels then 2 channels go to the a64 controller while 2 channels go to the northbridge. I'm just speculating...Is this even possible?

hmmm...an intel HSF cooling an Athlon64. How traditional. What the hell is 32bit PCI doing on this board?

is that a nuclear reactor sitting ontop the cpu?

Anyone notice that the Gainward graphics card (GeForce FX) in that picture is dual DVI?

What model?

Rys

So since AMD is putting the ATHLON64 on the 939 pin setup w/ dual channel memory capability, does that mean we can make an Athlon64 dually???

that's a pretty sweet concept...lets see how it translates into real world performance.

Is it just me, or is the HSF on this starting to look like the blower on a hopped-up Chevy?

On a semi-related note, if any of you read that great Wired article on The Diamond Age, diamond is being looked at as the semiconductor of the future because of its ability to withstand tremendous heat. Heat that would turn liquify silicon.

My question is, with a CPU running at around a thousand degrees F, what is mainstream cooling going to look like? (Of course, air and water are out of the question, but somehow I just can't picture Dell selling systems with liquid nitrogen cooling to Joe Sixpack.)