Computex 2011 - X79 motherboards

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Originally Posted by zads

I'm liking the double clamp socket mechanism- should make for more even pressure across that long package.
Also liking the threaded socket retention mechanism- no more PCB through hole junk with pushpins and backplates etc.

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I can't get past how erotic that post is. man

As people have said, a dual socket OCing board would be nice.

If EVGA plans on doing another and Asus jumps on board to compete, that would be awesome....

So when is the quad socket OCing board coming out? :D

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Originally Posted by Tenknics

6 months? from now? or after SB-e launches?


Try another 18 months for Ivy-E. I really don't understand where all this hype for Ivy is coming from when SB hasn't been fully launched and fleshed out yet. Ivy is a 2012 product...It will be exactly like the SB launch (minus the sata fiasco). Mainstream Ivy 1055 in Jan/Feb (now pushed back to march/april) and Ivy-E socket 2011 in the fall, 2012!!

It's another year and half away and people are talking about it like it's right around the corner...WHY!?

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Thanks for this info. I was misled by the earlier roadmap leaks,probably the same with alot of people too. 2012 eeek. Time to buy a 2500k now to hold me over till socket 2011 or wait few months for SB-E and don't upgrade again till 2013..decisions.

Monster performance. I know the source is kinda shady but still not a bold prediction.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/mo...idge-e-anyone/

Here I thought that clevo board was wacky enough. That asus board is utter insanity. Glad to see someone taking up the mantle after sr2.

Dual socket 1155 wanted.

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Originally Posted by kadozer

Monster performance. I know the source is kinda shady but still not a bold prediction.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/mo...idge-e-anyone/

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that is another report of board makers debating between focusing on x79 or z68. there must be something to this.

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Originally Posted by bamtan2

that is another report of board makers debating between focusing on x79 or z68. there must be something to this.

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I think it's bull, why would they bother focusing on z68?

If they've not made a decent z68 board by now, the SB-E bandwagon will make their efforts moot. If they make a z68 board at the expense of the higher margin x79 board, they deserve to go bankrupt.

If they don't have the resources to design a z68 and a x79 board, what the hell are they going to do when Ivy Bridge comes out with another two chipsets?

Most of the big players have already released a x68 board, why on earth would there be any real conflict when they already managed three chipsets and multiple motherboards only 6 months ago?

wth is the top right mobo for?

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Originally Posted by sholvaco

Hope vendors don't fall for all the whining and keep the enthusiast/overclocking boards with 4 dimm slots only as speed should be emphasised over capacity on those.

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4GB Dimms should be the norm by the time those boards are avalaible anyway.

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Originally Posted by naokaji

4GB Dimms should be the norm by the time those boards are avalaible anyway.

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right but that only gives yo 16GB of ram
We want more.. well at least I do :D

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Originally Posted by naokaji

4GB Dimms should be the norm by the time those boards are avalaible anyway.

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Right. Certain people have a hard time accepting newer products coming with "less" than the outgoing ones, even if having "more" ultimately costs performance and efficiency. I'm sure those that actually need the extra memory will have a nice selection serving them too; for people like me (who never use more than 1 dimm per channel) the mobos displayed here are optimal.

I don't believe this had been posted here yet, so to make this thread complete:

http://oi55.tinypic.com/vh9t7s.jpg

MSI X79A-GD65

Looks like the closest to retail product status among all the X79 boards displayed at computex.

Usually I go for Gigabyte boards but even the low-mid range UD3 uses multiplexing hardware now (for moAr slots). Since I'm only ever going to use two (full x16) slots I'd rather not deal with the extra latency, heat or yet another IC that could potentially fail, so the MSI board above or the ASRock one look the most appealing to me so far.

All the board in Computex were dummy, all non working samples. The real boards like ASUS Rampage IV Extreme / Formula and Gigabyte X79A-OC were not shown there :)

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Originally Posted by trn

Not a great sign for SB-E overclocking unless they specifically had in mind a Xeon 8c/16t lower clocked SB-E (like the ES we have seen, but with retail-higher clocks.) But who knows... maybe they were drunk when they thought up this monster or i'm just reading into the last half of the sign too much (or else they would have combined a 1155 + 2011 if they wanted clocks + threads.) Regardless :up: for Asus for even showing such a wacky design :)

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Too few people understand D-P :(

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2577/danshuibay.jpg

Well, we've all seen the pics, we've all seen the boards, so not let's take a closer look at GIGABYTE X79-UD3 Rev 0.2 :)


GIGABYTE X79-UD3 Rev 0.2 Quick Preview | lab501

http://lab501.ro/wp-content/uploads/...79A-UD3-06.jpg

That Gigabyte board won't be hitting retail, as it's not a board that they're planning on actually manufacturing.

I just wish they would show their higher end boards, because none of these boards appeal to me whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

That Gigabyte board won't be hitting retail, as it's not a board that they're planning on actually manufacturing.

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X79A-UD3 will be hiting retail, but heavily modified. This is only Rev 0.2, many changes will be made untill final rev (EtronTech USB 3 controller instead of NEC, no diagnose conector, less PCI-E, etc, etc). The early samples allways change, but they help us take a peak into the future (it was the same with P55, P67, etc).

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Originally Posted by LardArse

Too few people understand D-P :(

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Thanks for the attempted explaination Peter....but I'm still a bit foggy :p:
Props for the creativity :clap:

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Originally Posted by MadHacker

i hope so as well...
curretnly have 12 GB of ram and have to keep shutting down some of my VM machines so i don't run out.
was hoping to see some boards with 8 DIMM slots as well.

also i wonder how long it will take them before some company makes an SR2 like board for this CPU

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switch to 4GB sticks and sell the 2GB sticks, pretty sure all x58 takes 24GB RAM (i'm in the same boat).

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the amount of comments on color surprises me, I must be the only one that couldn't care less if the motherboard was pink with green polka dots as long as it works (well)

There is new rumor on internet i have got some info from a friend.
Evga company is planing on a new evga sr socket 2011 motherboards :D and will replace old socket 1366 sr-2 motherboards,
so there will be dual socket Sandy bridge-e 6 hexa cores cpu´s on this madness. 12 core & 24 threads

more to read

http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-...d-204103.shtml

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-16...therboard.html

:woot:

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Originally Posted by LardArse

Too few people understand D-P :(

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Excellent explanation Peter, now I think everybody understands!

I hope you don't mind I used your drawing to explain Danshui Bay project here. If it's a problem just tell me and I will remove it.

Can someone fill me inn right here.
Havent been intrested in top end components since i bought my Q6600 machine.
But i wondered if im going to go for ivy bridge as soon as it comes out.

Working with maya and zbrush and i need more ram, and more prosessing power.

I have heard i shuld have 16-32gb ram for zBrush.
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How mutch wuld Q6600 @ 4ghz to a x79 (i7/i5) of an improvement bee?
% wize, and no bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:. if someone comes with 200% here i wuld just "lol" ;D

Thnx for all you can tell me.
shame im not so mutch into hardware as in the days i nitro cooled a p4 to 6ghz ;D

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Originally Posted by aiaN

Can someone fill me inn right here.
Havent been intrested in top end components since i bought my Q6600 machine.
But i wondered if im going to go for ivy bridge as soon as it comes out.

Working with maya and zbrush and i need more ram, and more prosessing power.

I have heard i shuld have 16-32gb ram for zBrush.
And
How mutch wuld Q6600 @ 4ghz to a x79 (i7/i5) of an improvement bee?
% wize, and no bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:. if someone comes with 200% here i wuld just "lol" ;D

Thnx for all you can tell me.
shame im not so mutch into hardware as in the days i nitro cooled a p4 to 6ghz ;D

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to be honest if those programs are as CPU intensive as you make them sound then in a clock per clock comparison I would think the 200% number sounds about right... I was using a Q6600 machine for the longest time and the difference to my 2600k is nothing short of amazing... not to mention I also get much more clock speed out of my 2600k

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Originally Posted by aiaN

Can someone fill me inn right here.
Havent been intrested in top end components since i bought my Q6600 machine.
But i wondered if im going to go for ivy bridge as soon as it comes out.

Working with maya and zbrush and i need more ram, and more prosessing power.

I have heard i shuld have 16-32gb ram for zBrush.
And
How mutch wuld Q6600 @ 4ghz to a x79 (i7/i5) of an improvement bee?
% wize, and no bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:. if someone comes with 200% here i wuld just "lol" ;D

Thnx for all you can tell me.
shame im not so mutch into hardware as in the days i nitro cooled a p4 to 6ghz ;D

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Just check benchmarks and compare it to 2600k and then run the same benchmark on your machine.
Of course thread count will make a significant difference.

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Originally Posted by [XC] Synthetickiller

LGA 2011 + HIgh ram sticks = no cpu cooler fitting (that's of any decent size).

Looks like this is a WCing only platform. :D

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I wonder how OCing will be with 4 sticks. We need a little voltage bump w/ 4 sticks now on 1155. This might damper OCs JUST a tad. I bet WRs will be with 1 or 2 sticks like normal.

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Correct me if I am wrong, as I am far from a guru. But you need a voltage bump now on 1155 with 4 sticks, because there are 2 channels and so you have 2 dimms per channel.

Hasn't it been like this for a long time, that running 2 dimms per channel has problems? IIRC it has been this way since dual channel started.

So with 4 channels, I think there will be no problem running 1 dimm per channel.

thanks for the explanation shamino! I now understand how that concept makes sense, it will be interesting to see if a gulftown + the xeon will be better than just a faster X79 unlocked CPU, which i would think it would be faster than just a single faster CPU. I hope your concept takes hold!

Something like this coming from EVGA as of how layout goes? If thats even possible with S2011.

Formfactor XL-ATX, Dual-Sockets and PCI-E 3.0 16x 4-way SLI.
All memory slots numbered as 1 since i was too boored to edit them.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8862/xlatx.jpg

Thats going to depend on the QPI links available on the CPU's which Intel has not released yet. So far it seems that Intel will release dual QPI Xeon's which have locked multipliers and the unlocked desktop's will have single QPI's (no dual sockets.)

With the onboard IMC with SB(-E) BCLK overclocking is not possible so we won't see an SR-2 type board without unlocked dual QPI cpu's.

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Originally Posted by rintamarotta

Something like this coming from EVGA as of how layout goes? If thats even possible with S2011.

Formfactor XL-ATX, Dual-Sockets and PCI-E 3.0 16x 4-way SLI.
All memory slots numbered as 1 since i was too boored to edit them.

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S2011 does not have locked BCLK since its enthusiasts platform replacing current enthusiasts platform S1366, if cpu has IMC (all current gen one have got one) or not does not mean we cannot overclock by BCLK.
Locked multi with S2011 Xeons would mean overclocking by BCLK unless intel desides to put in clock generator in to S2011 Xeon's and disable BCLK overclocking.

Currently it seems BCLK overclocking for S2011 Xeon's and multiplier and BCLK overclocking for S2011 Extreme Editions or K Editions.

But nothing is shure at this point, only motherboards been seen in public and they're still in Revisions of 0.1 or 0.2 or similar.

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Originally Posted by rintamarotta

S2011 does not have locked BCLK

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SB does not have locked BCLK either...........

Yeah but its restricted alot, with S2011 that restriction is supposed to be removed so it doesnt restrict overclocking.
Thats what i ment with "locked".

Looks like we will see dual socket 1366/2011 boards because x79 supports both sockets.

Will there be an eight DIMM slots X79 board? So far I only saw four slots. It will not be good if X79 has fewer DIMM slots than X58. Plus, I need 64GB RAM....

I think it's reasonable to assume that there will be workstation boards with 8 DIMM slots. Gamer/overclocking boards I think will stick to 4 slots.