
Until then, the Istanbul 6-core processor the is slated for H2, 2009, could be the company's flagship product. A new company slide sourced by C|Net shows that the Opteron processor could embrace DDR3 memory only by 2010, with the introduction of the Magny-Corus 12-core processor architecture. The lineup shows that most of these chips would retain the 2000 MT/s system bus, and all of them come with 6 MB of level 3 cache. It will retain the Socket F (aka s1207) package and support DDR2 memory. Initial volumes of the processor would run off existing core logic platforms by NVIDIA and Broadcom. In a press event held yesterday, the company claimed that the company is all set to roll out the new chip. Originally slated for Q1, 2009 its launch was pushed to Q4, 2008. Shanghai will be the first 45nm AMD processor to make it to the market. This time around, the company promises to have made numerous changes, big and small, learning from the shortfalls of the Barcelona chip. It is a monolithic quad-core x86 processor that retains the design methodology of the K10h generation of AMD processors. The first being this, and the other is a 100% reference NVIDIA PCB + Cooler design.ĪMD Shanghai is the codename for a new enterprise processor the company is working on. MSI will be shipping two designs under the same model number and SKU.

It is to be priced at roughly US $248 in Europe. The package is to include a copy of Rainbow Six Vegas 2. The card comes with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. The card ships with clock speeds of 760/1880/2300 MHz (core/shader/memory) against the reference speeds of 738/1836/2200 MHz. Unlike the custom design 9800 GTX+ cards from some other manufacturers, MSI released its card factory overclocked. The cooler remains to be the heatpipe through aluminum fin design. This time around, MSI changed the cooler's shroud with a more designer one.

The cooler chosen has featured on several MSI cards, in the past, including some models based on the GeForce 8800 GT and 9600 GT. Like every other manufacturer making news for releasing such products, MSI designed its own PCB. MSI made its addition, with the N9800GTX PLUS-T2D512-OC.

There has been an influx of non-reference graphics cards based on the GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics processor, over the last few weeks.
