X58 Smackover board renamed
This one is a gem
THE NEW INTEL X58 based enthusiast board was called Smackover for the longest time, but now has a new name, DX58SO. We haven't seen such marketing genius since the Sledgehammer -> Opteron transition.
The specs remain the same, ATX form factor, LGA 1366 socket, 3 DDR3 channels and ICH10R. The -R suffix adds RAID with " Rapid Recover" technology, but the rest is the same as the ICH10 on the G45 and G43. There will also be configurable PCIe2.0 lanes, either 2x16 or 4x8, take your pick.
Sources tell us that the the SO in DX58SO stands for 'Significant Other', something that the target demographic sees their high end gaming box as. At least the demographers were right this time around.µ
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Great
Thanks Intel For helping supply my wife with more ammunition. She already calls my computer my mistress.But as we all know until women let us OC them slap some chrome and pretty lights on to them and lets us change there case around to suit our needs and lets us play any game we want with them. I guess they will just have to put up with our mistresses won't they?
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaats right i earned my death wish baby.
X58=NAHALEM
x58 AN iNTEL CHIPSET pOST x48 IS GOING TO BE NAHALEM UPGRADEABLE. If AMD Variant comes out it will be AM2+ or AM3. Improved Penryn.Basicly I'd like to see Dunnington chipset, as Ultimate is large & Complex, So is dunnington. Looking like 4 cores are really starting to gell, with 2 gb transistor cpu or cpgpu? or some combo, plus game card multiples make Multi good (large) field to Map with ULTIMATE.
drashek
most extreme
DX58SO Using tylesburg chipset with Nehalem cpu with mmx,sse,sse2,sse3,ssse3,sse4.1,sse4.2 and em64t