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Motherboards for the upcoming Socket LGA 2011 based on the Intel X79 chipset will be on display at Computex, most of the manufacturers having at least one model to show, in various stages of development. We managed to snap a few shots before the show will start tomorrow, when more details will be available.
X79 motherboards at Computex 2011 on lab501.ro | translation
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Ram slots on either side eh?
some nice "retro" colored board:)
ew.
Yeah, it's 4-channel DDR3. The number of S-ATA ports is interesting too, as well as the backpanel.
EDIT: the board is in development stage, the final one will be black.
Yup, backpanel spacing is a bit interesting.
Interesting board, 12 SATA ports, with only 1 south bridge, I'm sure they can do 7 slot / Quid CF/SLi slots
EDIT: 14 SATA ports :O
wow looks barren with all of the stuff being on-die.
holy hell look at all the boards from different manufacturers, intel is really putting amd's feet to the fire here. I can see a couple elite boards now. also note the almost complete lack of pci slots.
showing off x79 the same show as 990fx. ouch.
http://lab501.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/x79a.jpg
Nice layout for giant heatsinks.
LGA2011 is gonna be a huge ass platform....
nice colors.
http://www.ixbt.com/short/2k3-12/a7n8x-e-d_l.jpg
so my question is this: the ones with 4+ pci-e slots, are they going to be using some piece of junk *ala NF200* port multipliers?
Engineering sample.Quote:
Originally Posted by NKrader
I think so, because here are not heatsinks etc...
The new socket looks EXTREME but hey, there are NO through holes into the motherboard to allow custom coolers to be placed :rofl: :rofl: :ROTF: :ROTF:
Wow, most extreme UD3 board ever? :D
That's one bad4ss CPU socket eh?
Makes the boards look tiny :)
I'm curious about the insane amount of SATA ports...
Sure, its a server platform so it makes sense the chipset has a lot of ports, but... why use them on consumer boards?
At least now in case SATA ports die, you got plenty of fresh ports left to wear down ^^
And yeah, mounting pots might be a bit tricky...
i don't get it, why do all the boards have split memory slots on both sides of the CPU? unless there's some kind of design advantage to this, i would think it's easier to make the memory traces on the board if they were all grouped together
Gimme 8 DIMM slots, WTF was Intel thinking when they implemented quad channel and only added 4? May as well go back to dual channel if they did that. Hopefully higher tier motherboards will feature 8, but at the moment, I'm not impressed, apart from having 14 SATA which is nice.
The CPU has so many memory control pins, that they had to split them on the two sides of the CPU package to improve the speeds and reduce interference problems. It was inevitable for quad-channel memory.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteFireDragon
Also the memory speed supported is 2600Mhz so a nice improvement here too.
14 SATA ports are nice, also floppy and IDE are gone for good.
PCB is not painted.Quote:
Originally Posted by NKrader
There are 4GB RAM modules on the market at reasonable prices, i would say 16GB is more than enough for a desktop PC, even 8GB handles almost any kind of task you might throw at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrono Detector
Are you sure? I thought the mounting holes are the ones in the corners of the metal part.Quote:
Originally Posted by nr4
If the holes are made of steel then there's less risk for damaging the board, right?
Intel X79 - ASRock X79 Extreme4 Exposed
I see ASRock board doesn't feature any switching hardware, slots being hardwired directly to the CPU. Good, I hope they intend to release it this way.