K9N2 Diamond is 3-way SLI technology ready. This technology can combine 3 VGA cards to process tasks, which brings higher 3D gaming resolutions with more detail DX10 effects, and also enhances the 3D frame rate to a higher level for more smooth gaming experience. K9N2 SLI Platinum only supports SLI technology, but through PCI-E bandwidth upgrade to Gen2, it can raise performance in heavy-loading status. These 2 mainboards have different specifications, K9N2 Diamond has an extreme performance design, and the other one has high C/P value product.

Weber believes as many as 20 percent of the roughly ten million servers that ship a year could be candidates for his memory-expansion technology if they can accommodate DDR2 DRAMs. "We thought we would have to aim this solely at AMD-based Opteron systems, but halfway through out project Intel told us they were working on a registered DIMM platform," said Weber. Intel has pushed hard for an alternative to DDR2 it has developed called fully buffered DIMMs. However, some OEMs have pushed back on the technology. "Many OEM were not happy with the power, cost and latency issues with FB-DIMMs," said Suresh Rajan, the co-founder of MetaRAM who previously helped launch NVidia Corp.'s server chip set business. "One OEM said he had to redesign his whole chassis to accommodate FB-DIMMs," he added.

So even Intel is on board. FB DIMMs certainly are Rambus 2.0.

The interesting part is where they go, AMD will put one microbuffer between two DIMM slots, basically making each drive two DIMMs. This will effectively make each RAM channel support twice the number of DIMMs, allowing DDR3 to be a workable server solution. This is also called Buffer on Board (BoB).