How come Intel doesn't have it's own Granite Bay boards?

[Biggs]

Any particular reason why?

 

[Wingznut]

They do...

All of the SE7500 series are Granite Bay, although they are for the Xeon. Granite Bay is designed to be a workstation chipset.

 

[Biggs]

Erm, what I meant was the E7205-based ones (like the Asus P4G8X).

 

[Wingznut]

I suppose because they've pretty much always maintained that it was a workstation chipset. But manufacturers clammered for a P4 chipset, so Intel obliged. I guess Intel just doesn't see a big enough market for Granite Bay on the desktop, to make their own boards.

 

[DynaOne]

I was very disappointed when it appeared that Granite Bay was not being broadly supported for P4. The big problem for me was there is no way to get to 4 gigabytes of memory on an Intel board with p4. Thus - I wait for Canterwood/Springdale.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: DynaOne
I was very disappointed when it appeared that Granite Bay was not being broadly supported for P4. The big problem for me was there is no way to get to 4 gigabytes of memory on an Intel board with p4. Thus - I wait for Canterwood/Springdale.

And what pre-tell do you need 4GBs of RAM for?

 

[DynaOne]

Right now I only need about 2 Gig - (structureal finite element analysis), but history proves that the need grows each year. When you run out of RAM and start swapping to disk - you might as well go on to bed.

 

[DynaOne]

Typo -Structural