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    Upcoming X79 Boards

    With Ivy Bridge-E not expected until late 2013, I'm currently planning a 64GB Sandy Bridge-E build. As well, the board I'm leaning toward is the Asus P9X79 Pro. However, a recent Anandtech review of an ASRock X79 board stated "The end of summer marks the start of the X79 refresh line. We are...
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    64GB Sandy Bridge Motherboard?

    Thanks, Lehtv. That's too bad about the 2013 release schedule for IB-E. I was looking initially at the IV platform because of their newer features and better TDP ratings. However, this is too far off for me to wait so I'll have to go with SB-E for now (i7-3820) and then maybe upgrade the...
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    64GB Sandy Bridge Motherboard?

    Thanks, guys. I had meant to refer to the latest CPU design (Ivy Bridge), but got confused with Sandy Bridge. Guess there's no way to change the thread title? So it looks like the LGA2011 platform, and a SB CPU, would be the one for me if I'm buying a non-server platform today. However, if I...
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    64GB Sandy Bridge Motherboard?

    Has there been any announcements/roadmaps showing future Sandy Bridge motherboards supporting 64GB of RAM? I'm looking to build a virtualization workstation that can also perform other non-server tasks, so Sandy Bridge and a 3770K CPU and 64GB RAM support would be ideal. Thank you