** OFFICIAL ** Intel DX38BT & DX48BT2 BoneTrail Thread

I'm pretty sure the new 75K already has the Cactus Ridge chip on it, the DSL3510 controller with 4 lanes PCIe if I'm not mistaken. ThunderBolt is not essencial for me, not right now at least. It will take time for it to get mainstream and widespread.
With Apple onboard maybe it gets accelerated.

This same 75K gets a 0039 BIOS finally, which is the same as the 70K's with a lot of fixes.

I wasn't aware that this was used in aviation, specially in AirBus. Thanks for the tip. I believe you're referring to light tech, not exactly TB, right?

Correction: according to the manual, the board uses an Intel L3310L CIO 10Gb controller. Funny, this must be the same as DSL3310, but this one is a 2 lane controller as far as I know, and the boards specs claim 4 lane controller. Odd!!

Yes, confirmed. The L3310L is the same as the DSL3310 controller, a lower power and capped sibling of the DSL3510. Why Intel chose the former on a desktop board is a mistery, or maybe not, but cutting costs in this controller is stupid for an Exteme board IMO. No daisy chain possible, and only 2 lanes, and no multiple DP inputs. Bsd move Intel.

LAN drivers v17.1 released. How come they stopped supporting our boards on these drivers? Guess Intel only considers 5 series and newer for support.

New Intel USB 3.0 driver as well.

Another Intel USB 3 driver released, they're working on it hard.
Also, SmackOver gets a new BIOS 5599.

A lot of people seems to be having problems with the latest Z77 boards, Intel support doesn't seem to help much. Where have I seen this before?!
Intel has announced an agreement with Phoenix Technologies for joint UEFI development. I guess Intel can't handle the heat by itself, or maybe it's just easier to outsource development to those who really know what they're doing, and do it right. It might just be a good move, hope they keep the good work they've done with Visual BIOS - time to drop the BIOS moniker already!!!!

Dear Friend Manel :

Here one contribution from this joined & good companies:

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We need more commentaries about Uefi implementation, as far as its use to boot a 3 TB Hard Drive with all alone Windows x64.

Thanks my friend.:up::up::up:

Paty
Have you not succeeded booting from your 3TB drive yet?

Intel IPT released for some boards, Identity Protection Technology.
Update to RST as well.

Dear Friend Manel:

The UEFI support to boot with an entire 3 TB is null.

You can only use 2 TB as well.

The UEFI structure needs UEFI files, and in this case I have not a Windows ultimate 64 bits with UEFI capacity to boot as UEFI with all 3 TB's.

That is one of issues to get Phoenix as partner, a good one.

The files conversion to UEFI is an Issue not solved yet, IMO.

Thanks my friend.

Yes, you will need Vista or 7 64bit to boot into UEFI.
Most boards (not newer ones based on Z77) have only a regular BIOS with only UEFI booting capability for the larger than 2.2GB disks, which is somewhat a handycap.
You will require that the disk is formated with GPT instead of MBR for UEFI boot also.

Dear friend Manel:
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
I was trying to make a boot 3 TB's UEFI HD with my w7-64 bits but It is not possible to do.
Thanks My friend.

It seems that quite a few manufacturers are not moving to the new C1 stepping X79. I asked ASUS and they said not for current boards as the new stepping only resolves SAS issues?
I was under the impression it also resolved some USB 3.0 issues too, anyone know the real answer here?
DX79SR does not seem to be in stock in the UK yet, will probably be available in July.
John

John
As far as I know, only the SAS/SATA issues were addressed here.
The funny thing is why isn't everybody happily updating their boards with the full SATA/SAS features enabled, instead of continuing with the crippled specs?! Would that be because then the people who bough the earlier versions of the board/chipset will be furious for having a sub-standard mobo?
Also, that I'm aware of no USB 3.0 support is expected for the X79 in any revision to come, maybe (hope) I'm wrong. But Intel never metioned USB 3.0 support on X79.
Another feature that should now be used is the processor uplink for storage (PCIe x4) I guess.

Dear friend Manel:

What about the 8 core cpu's, because people is waiting for these monsters then they would buy all for a new machine.

You Know something about when these 8 core's CPU's will be in the market?

Thanks friend Manel.

Hi Paty
Unfortunatelly, no word on 8 core CPUs for the desktop as far as I know.
Maybe Intel is waiting for a new stepping with better yields and electrical/thermal performance. 6 cores are already power hogs, 8 cores would only had to it.
Xeons are good for 8 core but I'm not sure that desktop parts are much needed. Of course, we all would love those in our rigs!!!

Dear Manel:

This new schocked me:

Last week an eBay auctioneer decided to buy something. This person or company had managed to acquire a Core i7 Q19D Engineering Sample Sandy Bridge chip 8 cores, 20MB level 3 cache, and running at 1.6GHz. Rather than keeping it for themselves an eBay listing appeared attempting to sell it. The listing price was $1,359.99. That’s a $360 premium over the current top Core i7-990X Extreme Edition processor with 6-cores.

The eBay listing has the seller as abeeftec_computer and a “Top-rated seller” so they won’t be difficult to find, especially with over 400 listings completed on eBay.

Anyone wanting an 8-core Core i7 doesn’t have to wait too long as the chips are expected to see an official release in the fourth quarter of this year. The $1,359.99 price point may be fairly accurate for the final chips the first few weeks they are available.

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Thanks Friend Manel.:clap::clap::clap:

Paty
Wasn't this some time back already? I think I remember this, a lot of turmoil it caused.
Still, can't remember what happened exactly at the time.

An 8 core SB-E is not that far-fetched, they all are 8 core actually. Only 2 or 4 cores are disabled. This proc you metioned is only an ES that has no core disabled.
Also, all SB-E procs have the full cache, some lower parts have part of it disabled as well. Binning helps here, parts with bad cache or defective cores are binned as lower end parts.
Also, the reason for disabled cores in SB-E is the power consumption, these guys are already 130W parts, imagine 2 more cores heating things up. When OC'ed that would blow any PS or VR circuitry of less tha stellar quality.
By the way, if you look at it the proc is rated 1.6GHz, which makes up for the extra cores - the lower speed com,pensates for the extra consuming cores.

Don't expect 8 cores so soon, based on SB-E that is. With Ivy Bridge-E at 22nm and maybe enhanced process (3D transistors, lower leakeage..) I believe we will see them alright.

Another thing, has anyone seen the new Xeon Phi PCIe co-processor board (competing with nVidia Tesla), based on Knights Corner tech.
+50 x86 cores for HPC, over 1 TeraFLOP. Runs a Linux kernel of it's own it seems.

Siler gets a new BIOS 0515. Also Marvell SATA RAID driver updated, as well as IPT.
Z68 boards still get BIOS updates.
Z77 also get updates, Visual BIOS is now v1.0.4.

Dear Manel:

what about these news:

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Well, this applies for these Chipsets:

Z87, H87 , H81 , Q87 , Q85 , B85.

I hope you have some news about x89 chipset, expected ro release next year? microprocessor -DT Haswell (22nm) for socket LGA 1150?

Thank you Manel.

Haswell is still about one year away, but looks promissing. Still, it's another socket change. No big problem there, but since Lynx Point doesn't bring anything really new to the table.
Integrated graphics seems to be another step up in Haswell, let's hope so. One day, no more discreet graphics needed!
Still, DDR4 will come much later as well as the enthusiast breeden. So, don't expect X89 anytime soon - if it comes in 2013, only in the end (Q4) I'd say.
We haven't seen IB-E yet, Haswell-E will take it's time!!

BITS goes 763.
IDU updated to 3.2.3.052. In case you use it.
Siler gets BIOS 0525.

Dear Manel:


I think this opinion is valid : Socket 2011 to become the dominant Intel high end physical format even on Xeon EX but different pin-outs,
until Haswell will appear in the market.

Thanks friend Manel:up::up::up: