** OFFICIAL ** Intel DX38BT & DX48BT2 BoneTrail Thread

[Patyabc]

Dear friend Manel:

My drive is working with 2.2 TB only.
The full capacity is recognize by the OS as 3 TB but partitioned.
Noway to install as GPT in my Intel MB x48BT2
I hope the new Windows 8 will be capable to Install in full capacity as recognize by
Diskpart utility.

Thanks My Friend.
Note.: What about CES 2012 Las Vegas?Thanks Manel.

[Manel]

Too bad. But still strange.
I have mixed feelings regarding Win8. The UI is horrible, Metro is definatelly not for me. But some serious overhaul work seems to be in place, I've been reading the blog an new stuff is revelead everyday. Still, too much phone focused in my opinion.

CES had some new, what I regreted the most was that Intel Z77+IB fake showdown, that was unnecessary and looked bad for Intel. Still, it's promissing.

[Manel]

Check this out:

http://click.intel.com/tuningplan/

[Manel]

Check this out:

http://click.intel.com/tuningplan/

[petr0id]

Hiya!
They now want us to burn our hardware and buy new?
No way. You'll burn CPU for S775, but will unable to get new one for this platform.
So you'll got to go and buy new mobo with new socket for that great gift from Intel...

And do not forget about "Black March" operation please 8)

[Manel]

petr0id
The plan is not available for Sochet 775 procs, only Extreme Socket 2011 (i7-3930K and i7-3960X), i5-2500K and i7-2x00K so far.

Siler on a 5 board round-up:

http://www.techspot.com/review/484-i...board-roundup/

[Patyabc]

Dear Friend Manel:

Why UEFI "BIOS" at Intel MB is not as good as the UEFI from the ASROCK or ASUS Platforms?

I hope to use all capacity of my 3 TB Seagate Constellation ES2 in my future new branded X79SI from My Friends of Intel. I think they are working hard for a Second Version for this good platform included a friendly UEFI improved.

Thanks.

[Manel]

Paty
Indeed, specially since Intel was the initial developer of EFI Framework, and then passed it on to the UEFI Forum for further development.
As long as it complies with the latest specification (v2.3.1) it should be ok, but again other manufacturers have already developed their own graphical UI for it (with more or less good taste, for me most are awful) but still Intel is behind everyone else on this too.
The most important thing though is that the UEFI implementation is rock solid, and in that respect I believe Intel's is in fact, they've had many years of it to make it perfect. They have been using it for so long now, too bad only on HPC and servers, but desktop is finally catching up.
AMD seems to be keen on getting on this train as well, although at first they said they wouldn't.
Intel always lacks a lot of tweaking options the other guys make available in their UEFI/BIOS, I believe because they're a big company with a reputation to maintain, and that would mean additional support as well. Still, things are changing even for Intel.

Do you have news of the refresh of the Siler already? So, you will wait to get one? I believe Intel has been working on an UEFI UI similar to XTU. It already has some similarities, although still in text mode without all the graphs and all. If this is so, I'd go for it, XTU looks great, by far the best looking tweaking utility for me. I hate those flashy apps from those guys on the other side of the world, the looks are usually terrible. I bet they haven't had UI design classes!!! :-)
Hope Intel by then has solved the chipset problem, and make all features available. I still believe they made a bad job with USB 3.0 on the Siler, if it was on the chipset then they would not have wasted a lane to the proc, rendering tri graphs setups a joke. Intel will be Intel!
Apart from that, and the missing features, the board is cool.

[Manel]

BITS 688 released, a lot of work being done latelly it seems.
Intel hasn't updated it's page for a while, as usual.

[Manel]

BITS 691 released, small fix.
Intel is still not following suit.

nVidia also seems to have an issue with drivers, not a WHQL'ed driver in months. The're waiting for Kepler GK100 series I guess but driver series 290 never saw the light of day (WHQL, betas are out) an now I guess series 295 will also have the same fate. No 600 series support (official) in 295 drivers, guess they're waiting for 300 series drivers to have full support.

[Manel]

BIOS 0424 for the Siler. PCIe 3.0 support at last.

[petr0id]

Hi, new Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver for Intel Desktop Boards Version: 11.0.0.1032 is available
@http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20868&keyword=%2220 868%22&DownloadType=Drivers&lang=eng

[Manel]

Yes, and BIOS 0888 for the DX58SO2and DX58OG, thought it was already forgotten.

[Patyabc]

Dear Manel:

I hope the UEFI implementation could be good to translate from this Intel Implementation to old bios because the compatibility could be in anyway unsolve, to translate archives from bios based ones to uefi based OS as windows 8.We will lost all our archives from windows 7??.

Come on good friends from Intel.

[Manel]

I guess Intel will have a good implementation of UEFI on their boards, if they want to. They have the knowledge. heck they started it anyway. Still, things at Intel usually take their time, and I can even understand that, but they could do a lot better IMO.

nVidia finally released r295.73 WHQL drivers, after what, 4 months?! Funny, no perliminary GTX600 support, at least mentioned?! X79 SLI support.
AMD's eastern islands is already on the talks, even if HD 7000 was just released.

[Manel]

Siler gets a new BIOS update 0430. Quicky!!!
Minor corrections for USB 3 and XMP 1.3 support.

[Manel]

DP67BG and DZ68ZV get new BIOS 2161 with IVB support. Caution, since going back might not be possible.

[Manel]

Siler Preview and Review:
http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/mo...l_lang=english
http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/mo...l_lang=english

IVB delayed 10 weeks. Z77 boards showing up though, at first bundles od Z77 and SB, until IVB arrives.

[Manel]

Z77 boards at Intel:

Intel® Desktop Board DZ77BH-55K
Intel® Desktop Board DZ77GA-70K
Intel® Desktop Board DZ77SL-50K


Drivers and Pre-production BIOS/UEFI already downloadable.

USB 3.0 Intel drivers v1.0.4.220, integrated controller probably for:

Intel® Desktop Board DB75EN
Intel® Desktop Board DH77DF
Intel® Desktop Board DH77EB
Intel® Desktop Board DH77KC
Intel® Desktop Board DZ77BH-55K
Intel® Desktop Board DZ77GA-70K
Intel® Desktop Board DZ77SL-50K

Boards based on B75, H77 and Z77. Wonder what the 55K, 70K and 50K stand for.

RST v11.1.0.1006 and Management Engine v8.0.3.1427

[Manel]

intelbettrtogether.com has some really neat stuff, images, videos... Cool!

[Manel]

BITS 707 released.

nVidia dumped 2 WHQL'ed 295 drivers in only 3 weeks, after 5 months or so with only betas. Win8 support already. No GTX680 support that I can see though. It should be out by the end of the month.

[Manel]

BITS 707 released.

nVidia dumped 2 WHQL'ed 295 drivers in only 3 weeks, after 5 months or so with only betas. Win8 support already. No GTX680 support that I can see though. It should be out by the end of the month.

[Manel]

nVidia Kepler GK106, aka GTX680, will be supported in r300 drivers, v300.99 beta seem to be out in the wild already.
Quite a beast the GTX680, for a card that was supposed to be a mid-range/performance card, suddently turned into a high-end HD7970 killer. Sorry AMD fans, this seems to be the case. Hope this doesn't start a AMD/nVidia hate war but this time around nVidia seems to b getting the crown. Let's wait for the end of the month and see.
This card seems to be almost perfect, this was supposed to be the GTX660Ti, which was on my wish list. Only now being GTX680 instead the price will go up for sure.
It seems the bigger Kepler GK110 wil be waiting for 700 series, not sure though.
GTX690 will probably be 2x GK106.
A system with a i7-3770K and Z77 board (Intel Extreme?!) and one of these GTX680 would be awesome.
If IVB-E comes by Q3 or Q4 2012 and X79 gets a refresh (X89?!) with USB 3.0, full SATA 6G/SAS and maybe Thunderbolt (optic next year, confirmed by Intel), PCI ditched and everything else well teaked, that will be worth the wait.

[stasio]

If IVB-E comes by Q3 or Q4 2012 and X79 gets a refresh (X89?!) with USB 3.0, full SATA 6G/SAS and maybe Thunderbolt (optic next year, confirmed by Intel), PCI ditched and everything else well teaked, that will be worth the wait.

NO IB-E in 2012.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...This_Year.html

[Patyabc]

Dear friend Manel:

This could be the new roadmap for Intel Proc's:

intel roadmap.jpg

I hope these delaies would be for a better products from my friends by INTEL.