Smackover is a mobo for the enthusiast which will use Intel's up and coming Nehalem architecture, when that starts to emerge.

Tom Rampone briefly showed us one of these yesterday. But now it emerges that although Nehalem has three memory channels, the Smackover board has four DIMM sockets.

So if you add the four DIMMs, your machine will actually slow down. This begs the question of why Intel designed four sockets rather than just three.

It is a tradition, apparently. X