Intel Sandy Bridge E and LGA2011 Discussion

[Jaskanwar Singh]

MSI Big Bang XPower II X79 Monstrosity Smiles For The Camera | techPowerUp
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[vickybat]

^^ My god What a board!!!! Tailor made for a $999 cpu. It has a whooping 24 phase vrm design. Will definitely break some overclocking records once 2011 cpu's start shipping.

 

[JojoTheDragon]

Looks wicked!

 

[topgear]

I really liked the ammo belt shaped heatsink

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

I really liked the ammo belt shaped heatsink

me too and ofcourse those number of pcie slots

 

[topgear]

ASUS P9X79 Pro - VFM X79 mobo

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ASUS P9X79 Pro Motherboard Revealed - Softpedia

 

[Skud]

Poor placement of PCI-e slots.

 

[d6bmg]

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Real killer mobo..
But EVGA have the best looking mobo of x79.

 

[Extreme Gamer]

d6bmg: you havent seen the Rampage IV Extreme yet have you?

Your opinion will then change.

 

[d6bmg]

@EG: yes, I saw that too. I think this board is superior due to the fact that it have 7 PCI-E slots whereas rampage iv have 5 slots....

so, one can opt for quad sli, physx & 2 more slots will be there for future use.. cool.

 

[gameranand]

Arn't higher end cards have dual slot design so you can't fill consecutive ports right ??

 

[Skud]

Exactly. I couldn't get the point of boards like Gigabyte UD7 and MSI Bing Bang. How many of those 7 PCI-e slots are a user going to use? At least 3 of them will be wasted in any case.

 

[gameranand]

Exactly. I couldn't get the point of boards like Gigabyte UD7 and MSI Bing Bang. How many of those 7 PCI-e slots are a user going to use? At least 3 of them will be wasted in any case.

Yup. I guess they want to look good on papers.

 

[Extreme Gamer]

those slots can be filled with the help of watercooling.

The EVGA classified mobo has only 5 slots.

the SR2 has 7 slots, which will have bandwidth issues.

 

[Skud]

Point is, is 5-way or 7-way SLI/CFX even possible? Doesn't get the logic behind that many PCI-e slots. May be I am missing something.

 

[rajnusker]

Point is, is 5-way or 7-way SLI/CFX even possible? Doesn't get the logic behind that many PCI-e slots. May be I am missing something.

For position I guess. May be how far you want to keep the cards apart, some cards take up huge space, while others a little.

 

[Skud]

OK, suddenly remember some ASUS cards do eat away 3 slots. If someone want to put 3 of them together...

I do agree the mobo looks better and symmetrical with 7 equal length slots, rather than slots of various lengths.

 

[Extreme Gamer]

5 slots,7 slots are for HPC/F@H/SETI@H/4-way+physx/multimonitor(over 3 monitors).

You can also put add-on PCIE cards like RAID controllers,sound cards, revodrives etc.

The possibilities are endless

 

[gameranand]

I guess most soundcards come for x1 slot right ??

 

[d6bmg]

those slots can be filled with the help of watercooling.

I was about to post this, but thanks to eg, I don't have to.

the SR2 has 7 slots, which will have bandwidth issues.

Good point. Then I think these 7 slots are only good for marketing.

5 slots,7 slots are for HPC/F@H/SETI@H/4-way+physx/multimonitor(over 3 monitors).

You can also put add-on PCIE cards like RAID controllers,sound cards, revodrives etc.

The possibilities are endless

RAID controllers are very useful to use, as most of the on-board controllers are sh!t, specially when connected to SSDs.