The slides from the presentation of Intel were revealed, which give a first impression on the chipset X79 Express.
The chipset is designed for motherboards with the upper segment LGA2011 CPU socket. Corresponding processors Sandy Bridge - E, according to preliminary data, should appear in the final quarter of this year. They will have built a four DDR3 memory and PCI Express 32 lines.
The chipset generally works as an input-output hub. It includes eight PCI Express lanes, Audio Codec, 14 SATA ports, the same number of USB 2.0 ports and a Gigabit Ethernet port. Ten of the SATA ports support SATA 6 Gb/s specification, and eight of those can be connected to SATA or SAS drives. Thanks to Intel Rapid Storage Technology supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10.
Unlike the P67, associated with an interface DMI (physically - PCI-Express 2.0 x4), X79 can be further linked to a processor with four more PCI-Express 2.0 lines, by selecting the appropriate option in EFI. Given the scope, an important feature of the chipset is support for CPU and memory overclocking.
Unfortunately it does not have any USB 3.0 ports available. And they didn't mention Intel Thunderbolt - their own design.
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