Idf 2011

[Anvil]

A pity if this is true, as there have been several misinterpretations/misunderstandings I guess I'll wait for some more official info.

Quite a few of the new boards have been shown having 10-14 ports (GB X79 UD5/UD7 @legitreview), that does of course not mean that they are all chipset ports.

edit:

There is an update to the review at toms

"Update: After this piece went up, several credible sources confirmed that Sandy Bridge-E's PCIe actually is 8 GT/s-capable; Intel just hasn't gone through the validation process yet. From what I'm told, there will be a second batch of processors in '12 that follows what we see at launch, and those will receive the official third-gen blessing. Until then, it'll have to be up to motherboard vendors to claim (or not) PCIe 3.0 compliance."

The potential lack of PCIe 3.0 was most likely the thing that made them think there would be only 2 ports, still, this is not official.