Corsair has let slip Nvidia's name for the chip maker's upcoming chipset series. The Memory company today announced a pair of DDR 2 DIMMs "fully optimised to work with new motherboards based on the upcoming Nvidia nForce 590 SLI". The Corsair announcement appears to confirm claims that the nForce 500 series will automatically overclock itself and connected components. Corsair said the two 2GB modules, designed to be clocked at 800MHz and 1066MHz, respectively, feature technology called Serial Presence Detect (SPD) Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP) which allows "automatic overclocking". Essentially, the motherboard can use information embedded in the DIMM to calculate the memory performance parameters and overclock accordingly.

In other news, on E3 show held last week in Los Angeles, NVIDIA was happy to show Dell's XPS machine running a Conroe CPU on an nForce 590 Intel Edition motherboard equipped with two GeForce 7950GX2 boards, e.g. QuadSLI. So, there you have it. When Nvidia launches its nForce 500 series for Intel, you can be certain that it will have no problems with Conroe in the socket.