Intel X79 chipset motherboards revealed at Computex

I'll pass and take SB or Bulldozer
The biggest selling point here looks to be the quad channel RAM and 32 PCIe lanes, neither of which 95% of people need.
Plus have a good look at where the RAM has had to go. Because of the huge amount of routing needed for the quad channel RAM mobo manufacturers have been forced to put two RAM slots on either side of the CPU. Now you need to be double careful with tall RAM heatsinks + air cooler
 
I assume these are still prototypes cause they don't have any fancy heat sink designs..
 
Archer said:
I'll pass and take SB or Bulldozer
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Um, this IS a Sandy Bridge chipset... :confused:

It's the I-want-to-spend-more-money-on-my-pc-than-a-car version, like the X58 was to the old core i7's.
 
LGA-2011
More pins please :P

Woah, 14 sata ports on the foxconn, 12 on nearly all the others o_0
Can I have chassis to fit all those hdds please :P
 
If i am not mistaken, the X79 chipset is meant for ivy bridge?


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Archer said:
X79 = SB-E, Sandy Bridge Enthusiast (or was it Extreme?). The two chips are VERY different
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Yes, Socket 2011 vs socket 1155, but still Sandy Bridge architecture. I agree with you though, I wouldn't buy one of these new ones, the Z68 and P67 are plenty powerful enough for probably much much less money.

@Looney: No, still Sandy Bridge (architecture wise), but the "Extreme" Socket 2011 chips. The way overpriced stuff like the previous generation had Socket 1156 and 1366, but still the same cores. The new ones just have 6 cores instead of 4 iirc.
 
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Looney said:
If i am not mistaken, the X79 chipset is meant for ivy bridge?
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Sandy Bridge is the current new architecture from Intel, while Ivy Bridge will not be a new architecture, but simply a refresh. A die shrink from 32nm Sandy to 22nm Ivy. In essence they are still the same architecture on different processes.

Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge will both be available on 2 sockets.
 
I'm just interested in having a CPU on the 22nm process, and 2x 16x PCI-E channels for SLI/CrossFire of course :D

I really don't know why the motherboard manufacturers still place the RAM slots so close to the CPU socket, because it will cause issues with high-end air coolers.
 
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Those are interesting looking boards..

I just like the 12/14 SATA ports....
 
Yea and those are probably the only 2% who are willing to buy such hardware!
 
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