Sandy Brdige Chipset Info + Sandy Bridge-E

[nightmare99]

 

[nightmare99]

Although I have to admit, I am totally confused by Sandy Bridge's naming scheme...

In what way out of interest? The fact that it spans several sockets?

 

[nightmare99]

yes the P/Z range are the enthusiast boards that wont have igp, the H/Q and now B range will be IGP.

The Z68 appears to let you use the IGP.

Does anybody know what advanced SSD caching is?

 

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Does the X against Legacy PCI mean these boards won't have a standard PCI slot?

Correct but a lot of manufacturers will use IDT bridge chips to get old skool PCI slots. It will be up to the board partners to decide if they want to add PCI support, I think you will see PCI on the dearer boards but perhaps not on the entry level models.

 

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Cant believe they are dropping 1366 so soon. It is surely just a money grabbing exercise.

So soon? It has been out almost three years.

 

[nightmare99]

Ok closer to two, that is still a long time.

 

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will these Sandy Bridge processors work on x58 motherboards

No, there will be a replacement socket towards the end of next year called LGA 2011 to take the Sandy Bridge-E processors.

 

[nightmare99]

Not sure, what is the advanced SSD caching as that seems to be the only other differentiator?