Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Intel X79 chipset detailed

The new Intel chipset for high and extreme ranges, the X79, and appears on the horizon, according to a slide to which it mates. com. cn had access, we can know the details of this chipset for future processors E. Sandy Bridge As expected according to the policy of Intel, the new X79 chipset brings another change of socket, LGA2011.

This chipset is known to replace X58 on top of the scale of Intel, so that the plates that will incorporate a high price, as happened with the X58 at the time. The most important change is the reorganization of the chipset, now more like the P55 or P67, having spent the PCIe controller chipset to the processor (in the X58 chipset could be found in the north bridge, while the P55 and P67 are located directly on the processor.) Another important change with respect to the X58 X79 is the communication between chipset and processor, Intel leaves the QPI in favor of DMI (as in P55 and P67).

In the case of the P67 this communication is PCIe 2.0 4x (4GB / s), but the X79 doubles the communication (by selecting the EFI), to have a bandwidth of 8GB / s. Besides this, the X79 provides up to 14 SATA ports with RAID capability (levels 0, 1, 5 and 10), 10 of them can be used as SATA 6Gbps.

Depending on the manufacturer of the motherboard can be configured to 8 of these ports as SAS. Obviously, Intel does not adopt the standard USB 3.0 and features 14 USB 2.0 ports. Still no news about the intent of Intel deus Thunderbolt, but motherboard makers may opt for USB 3.0 drivers from other manufacturers.

The platform features a 16x PCIe 2 lines or 4 lines at 8x, depending on usage. E Sandy Bridge processors have 4-channel DDR3 memory, which indicates that the X79 chipset will placasbase least 4 memory slots, except that a manufacturer decides to launch some with 8 slots. It is too early to know how to channel occupancy affect the performance of the system, but taking up the 4 channels of duty is one of the most common fears of users, and which prevents the future expansion of memory capacity in the case need it.

Intel addresses this platform comooverclockers enthusiastic users and high-grade and end, and advertises comopensada chelates for extreme overclocking processor and memory. As for its integrated systems, Intel has decided to incorporate dered communication (ethernet) and sound in their own chipset.

Is expected to arrive on the market before the end of the year, between October and December. Source: it. com. cn

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