Intel Core i7 motherboard preview
Gigabyte shared its upcoming Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition motherboard with the media at NVISION '08. The board will be a future home for the consumer-friendly Bloomfield Nehalem processors in 2009.
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The prototype board runs off the Intel X58 chipset and features four PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, two PCIe 2.0 x4 slots, and support for up to 24 GB of DDR3-1333. Separate power supplies exist for different systems; 12-phase for the CPU, 2-phase for the RAM, and 2-phase for the PCIe lanes.
It's still a prototype, but consider it a portent of (expensive) things to come.
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[credit]Image courtesy of TGDaily[/credit][/figure]The prototype board runs off the Intel X58 chipset and features four PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, two PCIe 2.0 x4 slots, and support for up to 24 GB of DDR3-1333. Separate power supplies exist for different systems; 12-phase for the CPU, 2-phase for the RAM, and 2-phase for the PCIe lanes.
It's still a prototype, but consider it a portent of (expensive) things to come.
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