6x Core i7 boards in complete review

[Tony]

it would have been nice to see which boards actually did work with all 6 slots populated at time of review.. nuff said

[eva2000]

it would have been nice to see which boards actually did work with all 6 slots populated at time of review.. nuff said

I'm hoping all boards will

[Tony]

DDr3 prices are coming down now, benchmarkers will use 3, most of the outside world i think will move to 6 soon, or 3x4GB modules.

[Hornet331]

DDr3 prices are coming down now, benchmarkers will use 3, most of the outside world i think will move to 6 soon, or 3x4GB modules.

3x4 would be nice, but i guess first modules will be very expensive.

12gb is the way to go (say hello to a 4-6gb ramdisk ).

[STaRGaZeR]

or 3x4GB modules.

Make them available at reasonable prices and people will buy

[CedricFP]

Will Nehalem boards come in mATX flavour?

[GAR]

Will Nehalem boards come in mATX flavour?

Probably not, but the mainstream cpu which will come out next year will.

[CedricFP]

Probably not, but the mainstream cpu which will come out next year will.

So current gen of CPU's won't have mATX? Rats. I'll have to get a DFI P45 JR and throw in a Penryn then.

[Chri$ch]

what is with the DFI LP JR X58-T3H?! I think it is a mATX Board

[Slovnaft]

Actually, i saw a mATX X58 board that looked rather finalized on some chinese site whose link was posted somewhere in XS. It was a "shuttle" board.

[Chri$ch]

but its not mATX form factor

[pcaddict]

How much ram that msi eclipse can stand?

[Metroid]

How much ram that msi eclipse can stand?

I looked into the Marketing slides and they have written 24GB.

[justapost]

ORB can you tell me what is written on those two chips? I'm trying to figure out how voltage regulation on i7 works compared to k10.

[RealTelstar]

I just got email from EVGA, their x58 with nf200 looks great. I wanna see it tested

[T_Flight]

DDr3 prices are coming down now, benchmarkers will use 3, most of the outside world i think will move to 6 soon, or 3x4GB modules.

Already have 6Gb on the way for mine. With the prices I didn't see why not. If I ever go to 12 I will Ebay Sell or Sell here at the FS section and then upgrade to 3x4. Everytime I've populated more slots I've always paid for it. I'm not gonna do it anymore. I'm gonna populate the least numvber of slots with the fastest RAM instead of piling more in there. I think 3x4 will work better than 6x2. It of course will take time for 4GB modules to mature and OC well though.

That gives me plenty of time not to worry about RAM again for awhile. My CC and savings will like that.

[mobi2u]

Hi I've read this forum for a few years now it defo one of the best for high tec PC info from the user side..I love the modding posts aswell, some of the best I've ever read, that and Bit Tech's forums modding logs.Right why am I typing this! I never upgraded from my AMD 4200 to Core Duo/Quad.So I missed all the fun there.I had saved up enough cash by last week to build a new system I was going with a B grade 790i Aus board and a Q6600..But I thought What the HELL Go for it so I paid for a Gigabyte X58 motherboard the GA-EX58-DS4 for a good price of £168 and one of the Core i7 920 cpu's for £223.Not had them delivered yet I just checked the couriors tracking webpage says loaded onto van! Not long I hope.I want to watercool this i920 with a "Swiftech Apogee Drive 350 CPU Waterblock with Pump" the all in one waterblocks.Has anyone tried to fit one of these or knows how to mod the fittings so they fit the new LGA1366 sockets? I don't want to spend another £50 for a good cpu waterblock.I already have a new in box Enzotech SCW-1 Sapphire Series CPU Water Block and a Zalman ZM WB5 that I bought when I thought I was going the Q6600 route.I'm hopless at making my own brackets etc so I'd have to buy a converter kit from 775 to 1366.Just can't find any at the usual UK online watercooling shops. If anyone knows where to get a converter kit for either of those two blocks plz tell. If I can work out howto do it I will upload a few pictures on to this forum of the GA-EX68 DS4 and 720 when they get to me.Thats about it.OH yea last bit of help I need is I have no more cash left for a new DDR3 Triple kit..I had again when I thought I was going 775 bought 2x1GB sticks of Kingston Hyper X 2GB PC3-14400 DDR3 Memory Kit CL8.As I only have 2 sticks do you think both will work ok in duel mode on this X58 Gigabyte? I read in Custom Pc mag that they tested and ran 2 DDR3 sticks in X58 boards and it was only a small bit slower than running the triple kits ie 2x 2GB sticks compared to 3x1GB sticks obviously the 6GB triple kits were quite abit faster.I'm not to interested in top speed more stabability.Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone who is also building there own LGA1366 and core 7 systems....out

[jcniest5]

Why can't people please use proper sentence structure so it won't be soooo hard to read...?

[mobi2u]

Why can't people quit moaning If you think I'm going to say sorry for bad typing please think again.How's that sentence structure good enough for u?