EVGA Debuts X79 LGA 2011 Classified Motherboard

[R3P0]

All I can say is WOW im in love

360 Dollars for the top end board, not to shabby

5x PCIE 3.0
LAN 6
DDR3 Quad Channel
X79 Express Chipset
8x USB 3.0
Bluetooth ready
2x Sata III and 4x Sata II connections

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1746/1/

According to EVGA this will be released the day Sandybridge E is launched well in time for Ivybridge

[JonD7]

I hate how there motherboards are always black and red.

I think I may go with MSI for my next board,

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by JonD7

I hate how there motherboards are always black and red.

I think I may go with MSI for my next board,

LOL im far from worried about the colors, im more concerned with overclock features and such, MSI does not come close to EVGA Classified or top of the line Asus.

[Offender_Mullet]

Sexy sexy. The last eVGA board I had was a 750i FTW if I remember correctly.

So the thing with the new Sandy Bridge-E cpu's is they're Socket 2011, yet their backwards compatible with 1155, but I wonder what the performance increase from Z68 to X79 chipset will be.

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

Sexy sexy. The last eVGA board I had was a 750i FTW if I remember correctly.

So the thing with the new Sandy Bridge-E cpu's is they're Socket 2011, yet their backwards compatible with 1155, but I wonder what the performance increase from Z68 to X79 chipset will be.

Ive read there's supposed to be a 60% Graphics performance boost, Biggest boost since AGP> PCIE. There is supposed to be like fiber optic connections or something. Not sure if it is on this generation of 2011 board or not.

[Offender_Mullet]

I was wrong on that. This whole time I thought Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge (being a code name for Bridge-E) cpu's are the same thing. They're not. Ivy Bridge is LGA1555 compatible. Sandy Bridge-E is LGA2011 and will feature quad-channel memory amongst other improvements.

[R3P0]

No ivybridge is an entirley new chip. Biggest difference is it runs on a 22nm die.

You still have the locked multipler/K-series divide, but on the unlocked chips there is now increased maximum ratio support, moving the bar from x57 up to x63.

Ivybridge has also introduced more dynamic overclocking, allowing the ratio to be changed on the fly without the need to reboot the machine.

This lends itself perfectly then to the application-based overclocking tools over the good ol' BIOS.

On the memory side too things have changed, with much more granularity involved in adjusting your DRAM's frequency. Where once you had to shift the speed of your memory in 266MHz increments you can now move in 200MHz jumps.

The big change for Ivy Bridge though is in the graphics core on board.

Where the CPU component follows perfectly on the tick tock Intel development model, with the simpler die-shrink tick following the more in-depth architectural revamp tock, the GPU part is being characterised as a 'tick plus'.

The new HD graphics in Ivy Bridge represents far more than just a die-shrink down to 22nm.

Because of the introduction of DirectX 11 support the whole GPU has effectively been redesigned. With the latest graphical API demands Intel has had to incorporate both Tessellation engines and Compute shaders into the mix.

[Offender_Mullet]

So Ivy Bridge is LGA2011? Are you sure?

[PrivatePixel]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

So Ivy Bridge is LGA2011? Are you sure?

I am 100% sure that Ivy Bridge (IVB) will not be LGA2011 because IVB CPUs are backwards compatible with existing LGA-1155 motherboards (which was confirmed at IDF 2011):

[Offender_Mullet]

I thought you meant it was 2011. Nevermind.

[BLindsay]

damn i was hoping the board would have 8 ram slots since its quad channel (4 or 8 slots make sense) and this is a high end board.

Oh well im really waiting for the dual socket one anyways

[Offender_Mullet]

16GB (2x8GB modules) dual channel kits are already out, so it's only a matter of time before the 32GB quad-channel ones are.....unless you want even more ram?

[BLindsay]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

16GB (2x8GB modules) dual channel kits are already out, so it's only a matter of time before the 32GB quad-channel ones are.....unless you want even more ram?

i wonder how the price of 8x 4GB sticks would compare to 4x 8GB sticks though?

Also is usually cheaper/easier and you get better timings/speed on lower density sticks

[Offender_Mullet]

Originally Posted by BLindsay

i wonder how the price of 8x 4GB sticks would compare to 4x 8GB sticks though?

Also is usually cheaper/easier and you get better timings/speed on lower density sticks

Lookie what's below.

Corsair High-Performance Quad Channel 32GB Memory Kit

Corsair announced a high-performance quad channel Dominator 32GB DDR3 memory kit.

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Link: http://www.guru3d.com/news/corsair-h...gb-memory-kit/

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by offender_mullet

lookie what's below. :d

999 lmfao

[Offender_Mullet]

Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme ROG




Link: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/43...ew/index1.html

[BLindsay]

[Offender_Mullet]

lolllllllllllllllllll Wtf! Maximum powah. Aaaaand the kicker is.....it has only two Sata III ports?

[BLindsay]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

lolllllllllllllllllll Wtf! Maximum powah. Aaaaand the kicker is.....it has only two Sata III ports?

you have more than 2 SATA III SSD's ?

also what makes you think it only has 2 SATA III ports? there are 14 SATA ports on it total according to the specs, i see more that are sideways near the end of the board

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by BLindsay

you have more than 2 SATA III SSD's ?

also what makes you think it only has 2 SATA III ports? there are 14 SATA ports on it total according to the specs, i see more that are sideways near the end of the board

The EVGA board does only have 2x Sata III, EVGA released that info already