Intel X58/Q4 08

Chimerical · 10 May 2008 at 15:14

Today we find out that the first Bloomfield supporting mobo will be Intel X58(with ICH10/R) coming out Q4 this year. Because Bloomfield have already got memory controller integrated, so north bridge will be simplified. The biggest point of the board will be the odd lay out, dual channel, Triple channel DD3 supporting and Dual PCIe 2.0 X16 or Quad PCIe 2.0 X8.

The north bridge have couples of new features, but Intel keeps ICH10/R as its south bridge, so there is nothing more to say about it.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=273442

^TANK^ · 10 May 2008 at 17:20

I wont be building a new pc till the end of the year, that looks really smart :cool:

Chimerical · 10 May 2008 at 21:19

Studying the top picture...does this mean that the (non)reference board will be able to take six RAM modules?

pastymuncher · 11 May 2008 at 18:50

The memory slots run the right way too. Much better for cooling.

Vir · 11 May 2008 at 18:54

Source: expreview

Chimerical · 11 May 2008 at 19:22

pastymuncher said:
The memory slots run the right way too. Much better for cooling.

Plus, they're no longer in-line with the PCI/PCI-E slots.

Problem with some ASUS boards is that full length sound cards would hit the RAM slots in certain circumstances.

HighlandeR · 11 May 2008 at 22:35

Sorta looks like as usual a bad time of da year to upgrade to a new PC... then again there is no such thing as a goodtime cos within weeks its replaced if not days

Chimerical · 11 May 2008 at 23:16

HighlandeR said:
Sorta looks like as usual a bad time of da year to upgrade to a new PC... then again there is no such thing as a goodtime cos within weeks its replaced if not days

Shouldn't matter too much tbh.

45nm Native Quad Core Nehalem is released Q4 08 and will cost a small fortune for definite.

Then Q1 09 Native 8-core 32nm Nehalem is released, and will cost as much as a small car.

Plus, mainstream motherboards will not allow overclocking.

DDR3 RAM will still be expensive.

I'm not buying into it until end of next year at least.

clocka · 12 May 2008 at 10:32

meh, you gotta pay for expensive nehalm cpu and ddr3 ram when those boards are out!

I'm still hoping for P45 samples to be reviewed, wouldnt mind 1 of them! Hopefully they will allow higher FSB on 65nm quads and 45nm quads.

Urban Reflex · 12 May 2008 at 12:33

Random ramblings: Why two PCIE 1x slots? I've never understood boards that have more than one - surely an extra PCI slot would be more functional? Futureproofing is great and all, but it doesn't seem like the peripheral manufaturers are too keen on jumping to PCIE 1x.