rjohnson11

kram36

Jacob can you post a picture of the whole board?

Jacob can only post what he can. Good things come to those who wait.

ya like EVGA P67 FTW

will it have exceptional discrete multi gpu support like X58 boards?
something greater than two cards and true 16x/better?

ARCTIC_EAGLE

rjohnson11

kram36

Jacob can you post a picture of the whole board?

Jacob can only post what he can. Good things come to those who wait.

ya like EVGA P67 FTW

 
Exactly, I have every plan to get a gigabyte UD7 at launch...know why...they will be available within 6 months after launch...come on evga almost every other company that HAS a board has shown at least a full image of it...what does that say about evga...they try to say that it is cause they are all working hard on it and too busy to post an image...sorry but I don't buy it, takes what 30-45 seconds to take a pic or two, and tell Shane to come get the memory card and put it up on the forums...if that 30-45 seconds of ONE persons time is going to be the difference between an awesome board and a crap one...Sorry I don't want it either way if its that close on quality.
 
What it more likely means is that they don't have any board ready...possibly even in shop working. Launch is supposedly little more than a month away and we still have no full images from EVGA...not really boding well at this point.

Release the Craken Already!

Asus hasn't officially shown anything but their baby poop brown boards at computex, so EVGA still has a partner in procrastination. They can't hold out for much longer, assuming this platform launches on time.

If that ASRock board had 8 DIMMs, I would be more enthusiastic. The SATA situations looks encouraging, but I wonder how much of it is powered by the X79 chipset and not an external controller.

 
 
 ASRock opted for 6 instead of 8 DDR3 slots, ASRock explained that while the motherboard retains Quad Channel Interface supporting memory upto 2400Mhz+ the other extra slots would allow for extra memory capacity if needed.

Im assuming it would go down to dual channel
 
you have 1 bank of quad channel - if you use the extra 2 channels you go down to dual chanel (3 banks) but get the added ram
 
I don't think you can mixmatch different channel types
 

I wish I could afford the 8GB ram sticks and put in a bank of 32GB
I'll wait till memory prices drop as the new memory sizes become normal
Im just hoping for more than two 6GB sata III connectors
 
I can buy a new board and CPU now. Just wait for reviews AMD FX and Sandy-E
after reading FX reviews...Im not so sure it's the best choice
 
but I'll give it a few weeks...after all I have til NOV 15 for Sandy-E

jacob will evgas x79 have pci-e3.0?

Intel plans to enable them with driver updates I think...once PCIE3.0 cards are out...
 
can't test when there are no cards

I'm not sure whether Intel confirmed this but with what I've been reading, I'm pretty sure SB-E will NOT have PCI-e 3.0 support, although hardware-wise it is capable.

Xavier Zepherious

Update: After this piece went up, several credible sources confirmed that Sandy Bridge-E's PCIe actually is8 GT/s-capable; Intel just hasn't gone through the validation process yet. From what I'm told, there will be a second batch of processors in '12 that follows what we see at launch, and those will receive the official third-gen blessing. Until then, it'll have to be up to motherboard vendors to claim (or not) PCIe 3.0 compliance. 

TOM's hardware


and Nordic
http://www.nordichardware.com/news/69-cpu-chipset/44320-ny-stepping-foer-sandy-bridge-e-fatalet-manader-efter-konsumentlanseringen.html

The problem is not that PCI Express 3.0 is not working, but Intel can't verify it to be compatible with coming PCI Express 3.0 expansion cards.

 
Yep, that's the piece I read earlier today... No PCI-e 3.0 for SB-E.
 
It's basically because Intel is not exactly a bleeding edge company. Bleeding edge means more risk and in this case there is no PCI-e 3.0 market (no benefit). Intel is very conservative about incorporating new tech because they are 1) playing safe, 2) not intimidated by any competition.
 

What do they mean by "second Q1"? Second half of Q1, I guess?
 
Worth the wait, methinks. More time for EVGA to conjure up an SR-3....

Still waiting -
1 month left till Sandy-E release date and THEY CAN"T display it yet.
 
come on Jacob... it's time to give us the details