Computex 2011 - X79 motherboards

[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!?




Also, on a side note, why would you want 6 dimms on a 4-channel setup? You wouldn't be able to run all 4 channels properly if you filled all 6 dimms.
You had 6 on nehalem/westy because it was TRI channel, and 3 goes into 6 evenly. 4 Cannot go into 6 evenly..You need 4/8/12 dimm slots..

I'm personally disappointed that 4 dimms will be the norm...But what else can you do? I don't expect the majority of people buying this platform to have 8 sticks of ram. And if they did, how many people would actually need 32gb of ram? Otherwise it'd be a waste of money buying 2gb/1gb dimms, because you could get 8gb/16/gb with 4 dimm slots anyway.. Also, I'm sure it's more expensive for the mobo companies to make and its more expensive for the user to buy that many sticks.. I personally wanted to crack 20gb of ram but I guess 16 will be sufficient until 8gig dimms become affordable.