Intel Bloomfield LGA1366 Mainboard

[LordEC911]

I believe this has been answered before. Not only is pci-e overkill for soundcards, I believe Creative has said they tried pci-e and the added overhead did more harm than good. And the only pci-e sound card on the marked gets pwned by the prelude and x-fi (if you dont need DD Live). CMSS-3D headphone is no trivial matter, it makes world of difference in games like CS:S where hearing where one footstep came from can be the difference between life and death.

I thought their only PCI-e card was a X-FI Audio, which isn't an X-Fi at all but an old Audigy...

[Jazzy jeff]

So if this board set up for crossfire or SLI or both?

[tiro_uspsss]

pci-e overkill for soundcards,

lol - overkill has nothing to do with it - its about getting rid of a crummy bus/way of connecting peripherals & expansion cards etc - every time i look up expansion cards etc for my PC, i have to be wary of the PCI bus max & the fact that *all* slots *share* that one dam bus

I believe Creative has said they tried pci-e and the added overhead did more harm than good.

link? sounds a lil off..

exactly. If he doesn't want a PCI slot they leaves him with really one choice with a soundcard, the Xonar. And I'd prefer my Prelude thanks.

http://www.virtuavia.eu/shop/index.p...id=29855&sl=EN

[shiznit93]

link? sounds a lil off..

http://guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=3005

things might have changed by now though, but either way I'm not ditching my X-FI. Hopefully someone will make a LGA1336 board with a pci slot.

[tiro_uspsss]

http://guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=3005

things might have changed by now though, but either way I'm not ditching my X-FI. Hopefully someone will make a LGA1336 board with a pci slot.

cheers! - good read - nice'n'short too

thats so dumb! - now is it the actual 'audio processor' that has trouble or the PCI transport part.. the article suggests its not so much the audio processor.. at least thats how I interpreted as

I bet Creative is too lazy &/or dumb to come up with a solution.. I bet if u gave the problem to a company with a bit more know how - *bam* solved (i wish )

[Donnie27]

I hope you are being sarcastic.

I was

[Tulatin]

Whoa, hold up. So now, for the luxury of using a (low profile) PCI device, you'd have to add 49 euro, per card, to your $400 motherboard? Is it just me, or does that just seem idiotic.

[Donnie27]

cheers! - good read - nice'n'short too

thats so dumb! - now is it the actual 'audio processor' that has trouble or the PCI transport part.. the article suggests its not so much the audio processor.. at least thats how I interpreted as

I bet Creative is too lazy &/or dumb to come up with a solution.. I bet if u gave the problem to a company with a bit more know how - *bam* solved (i wish )

No, its small packets are very random will do better in Parallel than in Serialized data streams. They need something like Jumbo packets or more data since the Card Does the processing, not the CPU. Software Audio processing cards doesn't have the same problem. Cards like the Asus Xonar and X-Fi Xtreme Audio are merely Audio conduits. They mostly receive smaller amounts of already processed by the CPU data or something that's bypassed. That's the way one sound guy explained it to me and until I see or hear something better, that's what I'm going with.

[Donnie27]

Whoa, hold up. So now, for the luxury of using a (low profile) PCI device, you'd have to add 49 euro, per card, to your $400 motherboard? Is it just me, or does that just seem idiotic.

Paying the $400 is idiotic to some for sure

[elec999]

Ugly board.
Thanks

[Xtasy]

Ugly board.
Thanks

idiot

Its an ES Board, they are developping those Boards to try their new technologies. They dont care about design until the system is running properly with good performance

[tiro_uspsss]

idiot

oh nozzz! he has an opinion! he's an idiot! [/sarcasm]

he has an opinion. he thinks the mobo is ugly. everyone is entitled to opinion.

he's not an idiot.

[adamsleath]

there's a pink one coming out im sure.

or else im not getting one ! haha

er id like intel raid and yr bog standard 7.1ch onboard audio.

geez i wish i didnt have to eat then i could afford this stuff

but so there are server boards; and some expensive extremely rich kid boards; what about Tylersburg LT mobo !
http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-33...g-chipset.html
ich10R?

[hollo]

but so there are server boards; and some expensive extremely rich kid boards; what about Tylersburg LT mobo !
http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-33...g-chipset.html
ich10?

nice link, everybody read this!

look at this dual-socket quad-PCI-e mother--board

[Blauhung]

now what we really need is a set of 36DD. 4 sockets and 4 16x pcie's. Fun to squeeze too

[Apollonas]

That's it. Green, pure, classic, hardcore, good old time motherboard.
I like it very much.

[Monkeywoman]

eww ICH9, id expect atleast ich11 with power over sata and usb 3.0

[Blauhung]

eww ICH9, id expect atleast ich11 with power over sata and usb 3.0

It works just fine with ICH10 as well. ICH 11 won't pop up till Westmere from what I understand.

[Shintai]

As far as I can imagine ICH10 is the last. And yes, it will ship with ICH10 and not 9 as the homemade picture shows.

The future looks for the new type of southbridge only. (Ibexpeak)

[Blauhung]

As far as I can imagine ICH10 is the last. And yes, it will ship with ICH10 and not 9 as the homemade picture shows.

The future looks for the new type of southbridge only. (Ibexpeak)

MP and DP platforms will continue to need an interconnect hub and PCIe controller off die, as that adds too much unnecessary complexity to integrate them in these type of systems. So the ICH will be sticking around for those market segments for a bit.

[Donnie27]

eww ICH9, id expect atleast ich11 with power over sata and usb 3.0

But I'd take it over nVidia's crap LOL!

[alpha0ne]

But I'd take it over nVidia's crap LOL!

Amen tho that

[-Acid-]

looks like its going to be fun to strap phase onto that !!!!

Real Fun

[hollo]

what are these

[Helmore]

Could it be for connecting monitoring equipment?