MSI HAS officially introduced two new motherboards for the AMD Opteron platform, one uniprocessor and one dual. The dually board is not new news, as it has been known about for quite some time. What is really new is the uniprocessor design, which makes it the third single Opteron motherboard to be launched - Asus and Tyan having launched the other two. What makes this board interesting is that it uses the same layout as the dual design, but is shipped without the parts that would make it a dually.
Having the memory controller on the processor itself makes what MSI has done practical and worthwhile. This approach also saves design, development, and qualification time. It will be interesting to see if other motherboard makers follow MSI's example. This cost saving approach might not endear those where aesthetics is as important as performance. Having an eyesore where the second processor socket would normally be will likely turn away many of the case modder brigade. So it will be interesting to see if MSI adds support for AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 FX.
News source: The Inq
Having the memory controller on the processor itself makes what MSI has done practical and worthwhile. This approach also saves design, development, and qualification time. It will be interesting to see if other motherboard makers follow MSI's example. This cost saving approach might not endear those where aesthetics is as important as performance. Having an eyesore where the second processor socket would normally be will likely turn away many of the case modder brigade. So it will be interesting to see if MSI adds support for AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 FX.
News source: The Inq
The networks just cannot keep away from Thompson when he talks like this. Like some dependable character actor, the wise Oriental Keye Luke or the spongy creep Victor Buono, the excitable Thompson fills a recurring role. He is in great demand on the morning shows to rivet the bleary eyeballs of parents with tales of kids seduced into mass murder by a few dancing pixels. Scant months ago Thompson got network airplay for his claim that the X-Box title Halo somehow "trained" the Beltway Sniper to kill. The U.S. Army would seem to have first dibs on that honor, but that does not fit Thompson's preferred solution—sue Microsoft for big money.
Thompson's Web site, Stopkill.com, makes clear that wherever there are video games, you are bound to find killers. In fact games are not games at all, but sniper trainers and "murder simulators" churning out "thousands of 'mini-Manchurian Candidates' ready, willing, and able to act out the violence that they have been taught is fun and consequence-free."
And the only way they can be stopped is for Jack Thompson to sue the pants off the wealthy video game companies and secure money damages. But why stop with video games? Surely anyone can use the parlor trick "prediction" that Thompson is fond of making anytime a teen shooter pops up on the national news ticker. Thompson "predicts" that if police search diligently enough they will find evidence that the accused was a video game player. One could just as accurately predict he—and it is always a he—was moody and didn't eat his vegetables.
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