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  • juampavalverde - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - link

    Holy cow! 8 DIMM slots on a desktop board, that's just... massive. No PCIe 3.0 for Intel, mhh this guys arent going straight with the chipsets (integrated or not).
  • ph0tek - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    I'm really happy to see 8 DIMM's. All previous X79 boards i see only had 4 DIMM's which was pathetic for a highend platform. I would have had to downgrade my memory capacity from 24GB to 16GB, unacceptable. But now i can have 32GB with 8 DIMM slots, nice.
  • knedle - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    Actually, there are 8GB DDR3 DIMMs, but they are so expensive, that it's unimaginable, anyone would want to buy them, for their price.
    Anyway 8 times 8GB = WOW!! 64GB of RAM! :D
  • hechacker1 - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - link

    We can only hope there's a decently priced enthusiast part like the 920 was. I remember jumping on it and a mobo when it got around the $300 mark.

    So far, a good investment considering the state of the art of high-end computing really hasn't moved forward (though the lower end chips have come a long way for way less money).

    That and something with 6 or 8 cores that doesn't break the bank.
  • etamin - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    nice to see some USB 3.0 onboard headers. Sadly, still no SB controller integration. Does anyone know how many PCIe lanes a NEC/Renesas controller takes up from the SB (if it does work that way)? and can these PCIe lanes be saved if the USB 3.0 controller were integrated in the SB?
  • Paazel - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    a) 12 SATA connections? Really??

    b) Looks like a new HSF mounting mechanism!!! Looks similar to what you would use with a back plate. Pushpins RIP.

    Unrelated, but that Creative X-Fi onboard is cool; why doesn't ASUS integrate their XONAR products?
  • MonkeyPaw - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    I agree on those pushpin HSFs. Such an inferior solution to AMD's simple clip and ARM. I guess it's still an improvement over the old "screwdriver" clips that left you wondering if you were about to mangle your motherboard.
  • Mumrik - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    "a) 12 SATA connections? Really??"

    What's you point? Did you want more?

    I'm already using the 8 I have on my P67 board and am rather annoyed that so few boards have more...
  • knedle - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    Actually, 4 of available SATA3 ports, are SAS capable, so they can be connected to hdd backplates, usually one hdd backplanes takes in 2 SAS connectors, and lets you connect up to six drives.
    This way you can use 4 SAS ports, to get 12 SATA drives + 8 SATA drives from onboard SATA ports = 20 hdds, seems enough for me. ;)
  • IanCutress - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    Looking good.
  • Filiprino - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    I'm seeing PCI Express Gen 3 on all boards.
    8GB of RAM per socket is massive. With current 4GB DIMMs that means up to 32GB per CPU.
    USB 3.0 is native or it's a NEC chipset who's doing the work?
  • Filiprino - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    Woops, I meant 8 DIMM sockets, with 4GB DIMMs it's a total of 32GB.
  • etamin - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    The MSI board description seems to indicate a maximum of 64GB supported
  • Filiprino - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    That is using 8GB DIMMs. 8x8 = 64GB.
  • knedle - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - link

    yeah, but 8GB DIMMs are so expensive it hurts (my heart and would hurt my wallet even more ;) ).

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