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Asus and Gigabyte's Intel X79 chipset mainboards break cover
MOTHERBOARD MAKERS Asus and Gigabyte have shown off boards based on Intel's X79 chipset.
Asus chose to show off three of its P9X79 boards last week based around Intel's X79 chipset, which is pitched at enthusiasts looking to upgrade from the first generation X58 chipset. The chaps at Expert Reviews mentioned that one of Asus' boards will end up in the firm's all singing and dancing Republic of Gamers (RoG) range.
Not to be outdone, Asus' fierce rival Gigabyte showed off a range of four X79 boards, three of which carry the firm's now common UD3, UD5 and UD7 suffixes in order to denote the feature-set on the boards. There's also a G1.Assassin 2 motherboard that aims to rival Asus' X79 RoG board.
Intel's X79 brings support for four memory channels resulting in a possible eight DDR3 DIMMs, plus USB3, AMD Crossfire and Nvidia SLI support. According to Expert Reviews all of Asus' boards will support UEFI BIOS. Interestingly, HardOCP's pictures show that only one of Gigabyte's X79 board, the middle-of-the-range X79-UD5, has eight DIMM slots.
Intel is expected to release its Core i7 39XX range of chips in the coming weeks, which are set to replace the LGA1366 Core i7 Nahalem chips that launched the Core-series chips back in 2008. Socket LGA2011 mainboards will also support the so-called Sandy Bridge E chips, which are Core i7 processors marketed for workstations.
While pictures are out, Intel's NDA still hasn't expired so there's no official word on pricing, but expect both Asus and Gigabyte to price their X79 boards from £200, with the RoG and Assassin boards coming in at £300 or above. µ
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Wrong.
Bulldozers pipe length is more like 20 stages if I recall correctly, nowhere near the P4 Prescots 32 stage!
Most sites do not site the pipelength as the main problem, but a combination of many other small issues includeing being optimised for server workloads.
Unless AMD guys get their act together and hit intel where it hurts, their usual gang with motherboard manufacturers will continue.
Just upgraded an 2 year old cheap low speed amd office pc to dual core without changing anything. Just plugged the new cpu. Windows 7 basically found new cpu and everything became faster.
I have not seen a single gamer looking for more RAM slots or even a typical desktop user that has needed more than (4) RAM slots and 16 GB. of RAM.
Yes I'm sure there are folks who can use more than 16 GB. of RAM for CAD, videod editing, etc. but (8) RAM slots seems like a waste for 99% of the PC desktop market, especially now that 8 GB. DIMMs are becoming available.