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Intel X79 chipset!

mrbios said:
Anyone know if it's going to be tripple channel or dual channel DDR3?
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Its quad channel, and Bit-tech STILL manage to be completely inept. Who on earth knows about the LGA2011 platform and DOESN'T know its up to 8 core chips.

Its a professional chipset and as such as essentially a SAS controller on top of the usual 6 sata ports so its not particularly surprising.

Took them long enough to do 2x16 pci-e again, though you wonder if it will be missing on Ivy Bridge, back down to 2x8pci-e, though it could be pci-e 3, not that it matters hugely anyway, though for tri/quad fire/sli users it matters a bit more.

I always find it funny when Bit-tech leak news way after everyone else, and miss important bits of key information.

Interesting platform, but I really don't want to know how much the mobo's will cost, look at higher end p67 mobo's, then double the memory channels and lanes per pci-e slot, with 8 more sata ports....... it ain't gonna be cheap.

though desktop versions will probably lose a lot of sata ports, maybe.
 
Will have to take out a mortgage on the mortgage in order to pay for it I think, it should be an amazing piece of kit though. Does anybody think this is going to be the main competitor to AMD's Bulldozer or will that be Ivy Bridge when it is released?

Stoner81.
 
Stoner81 said:
Will have to take out a mortgage on the mortgage in order to pay for it I think, it should be an amazing piece of kit though. Does anybody think this is going to be the main competitor to AMD's Bulldozer or will that be Ivy Bridge when it is released?

Stoner81.
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Don't really know, they are on different scheduals which makes it hard to realise what will be competing with each other.

Will AMD make their 8 module 16 core Zambezi server chips available on slightly cheaper high end single cpu socket boards for "enthusiasts" aiming at the same segment as the LGA2011 platform, maybe.

I think an 4 module 8 core bulldozer, what we're getting soon, will be at least competitive with Ivy bridge quad cores in the midrange area, but will struggle more against Haswell, when Intel finally brings octo cores to the midrange platform. Probably not to long after that though AMD will put more cores onto desktop chips, jump to 16 cores, or maybe a 12 core + gpu, we'll have to see.

AS always, if you work and quite literally time is money and you're waiting on cpu to get on with work, a top end 8 core Sandybridge-E could be good value. For gaming and 99% of home users, a quad channel 8 core Sandybridge will be ridiculous overkill. The fight between "value" chips wil be quad core Sandy(then Ivy)bridge vs 8 core Bulldozer and thats the only real fight to think about. AMD, Intel, Nvidia winning the high end platform, its small sales and rather pointless.

If everything was lined up with simultaneous releases I'd say Ivy vs 8 core Bulldozer, octo Sandybridge vs cheapest server 16 core zamebezi setups(which will be available before the octo core sandy, both quad channel mem). Then the next jump will be Haswell 8 cores on midrange computers(£200-300 chips) vs however big AMD go with their next chip which will likely depend on if they intergrate a GPU yet.
 
I see your point, technology is progressing so fast that software developers just can't keep up! I run a i7 930 and there is very little if anything that I do (as a home user) that can really use the full power of my CPU so this next generation of chips will be insanely quick or they should be it will be interesting to see how they are marketed to compete with rival companies (AMD vs Intel for example).

Stoner81.
 
Not really. The problem most software has it it was designed to work on x amount of cores, even though the people coding it knew by the time they got it into the wild there'd be more cores.

Valves the only company I know of that, while people were moaning about sources 1 core only support, designed an engine (that took longer than others tbf) which will scale to the number of cores available. Although it will only uses ~10-20% of them :) IMO all software should have this approach to multiple cores, particularly considering the way cpus are moving, but imo that same people should be making uses of opengl acceleration to speed their programs up anyway.

Still, the price of these things, assuming intel stick to it's 65% profit margins, will make people cringe :)
 
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