Intel Sandy Bridge-E (LGA2011) and X79 Chipset Discussion - Page 4

Raykay · 14th April 2011, 8:16 AM

Is light peak expected on these? I dont see why not? I mean one USB port would be good enough to do heaps.

DiGiTaL MoNkEY · 14th April 2011, 8:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Raykay

Is light peak expected on these? I dont see why not? I mean one USB port would be good enough to do heaps.

Haven't heard anything as yet. But at a guess i'm sure Apple have a agreement for a certain period of time (Thunderbolt).

Riddick187 · 17th April 2011, 4:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DiGiTaL MoNkEY

In reality its a never ending cycle really. No matter what you do, you will loose money, as there is always something new around the corner.

Some people buy the latest and greatest and stick with it for a couple of generations, and some will buy the previous generation gear once the latest has come out to save a good amount of money.

I wouldn't say so. Just look how long Socket 1366 lasted as the top tog. Even now it's the only solution for dual socket motherboards.

Socket 1366 = legend

DiGiTaL MoNkEY · 17th April 2011, 5:10 PM

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I wouldn't say so. Just look how long Socket 1366 lasted as the top tog. Even now it's the only solution for dual socket motherboards.

Socket 1366 = legend

It was more of a generalisation, but while while 1366 is great, most of the early CPU's were already getting beat by LGA1156 processors, now moreso with 1155 processors.

I would say LGA775 = legend, lasted forever with plenty of single, dual and quad core solutions

hehe

pentel88 · 19th April 2011, 2:07 PM

almost, except with LGA775 you needed a new chipset every time a new cpu came out. IMO 1156 was given a premature death, 1366 only looks good in comparison

stmok · 27th April 2011, 12:29 PM

Some recent info from Anandtech.

Additional Details on Sandy Bridge-E Processors, X79, and LGA2011
=> http://www.anandtech.com/show/4291/a...79-and-lga2011

snappy1 · 27th April 2011, 4:19 PM

Thanks for posting stmok, nice find

Sandy Enthusiast are going to be monsters... 66% mem bandwith improvement

Eva 2000 is going to love these

Ghost of Lauda · 27th April 2011, 5:38 PM

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Thanks for posting stmok, nice find

Sandy Enthusiast are going to be monsters... 66% mem bandwith improvement

Eva 2000 is going to love these

In what desktop applications will this make a meaningful difference?

qwertylesh · 27th April 2011, 5:39 PM

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In what desktop applications will this make a meaningful difference?

it makes a difference in web browsers, thats what users use to flex their e-peen on forums, and an SB-E platform will allow for much greater flexing

snappy1 · 27th April 2011, 7:40 PM

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In what desktop applications will this make a meaningful difference?

Benching

aokman · 28th April 2011, 7:47 AM

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so where do you draw the line and actually buy something? we know that far ahead of whats coming that when walk out of the pc shop its been replaced already. Puts me off upgrading right now seems the hardware i will get is already obsolete even before i've bought it. JUST MY THOUGHTS.

buy just as the new hardware rolls in? god everyone said the same thing when 1366 hit the market and look at all the time we ended getting with it

1366 has been my favorite platform to date

James086 · 29th April 2011, 2:56 AM

I'm a little disappointed by the 6 core processors. I thought (was hoping) we would see 8 cores with the "Extreme" tag. Of course I'll be getting one (or 2 if the price is right).

I couldn't find any word on dual socket Xeons. Have I missed anything or is there no info out there?

sanousie · 29th April 2011, 9:10 AM

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In what desktop applications will this make a meaningful difference?

Games which are more mem/cache intensive would take advantage of this as well.

hellaflush · 30th April 2011, 1:05 AM

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Benching

i will def be waiting for ppl to put the sbe chips through their loops, find the good batches and get a xeon binned chip...

question is... no info on the 8 core and 12 core chips?

well at least before sbe comes out we should have details of the ivy die shrink... then it will be known if we skip sbe and wait for ivy

ElBeasto · 30th April 2011, 12:20 PM

With it being quad channel memory, does that mean the boards will have a number of RAM slots divisible by 4, i.e. 4-8 RAM slots?

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Raykay Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Melbourne Posts: 2,569	Is light peak expected on these? I dont see why not? I mean one USB port would be good enough to do heaps.

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snappy1 Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Benching Posts: 3,816	Thanks for posting stmok, nice find Sandy Enthusiast are going to be monsters... 66% mem bandwith improvement Eva 2000 is going to love these

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ElBeasto Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sydney Posts: 2,909	With it being quad channel memory, does that mean the boards will have a number of RAM slots divisible by 4, i.e. 4-8 RAM slots?