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Intel?s first Nehalem mobo is X58

AshPhoenix

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Today we find out that the first Bloomfield supporting mobo will be Intel X58(with ICH10/R) coming out Q4 this year. Because Bloomfield have already got memory controller integrated, so north bridge will be simplified. The biggest point of the board will be the odd lay out, dual channel, Triple channel DD3 supporting and Dual PCIe 2.0 X16 or Quad PCIe 2.0 X8.

The north bridge have couples of new features, but Intel keeps ICH10/R as its south bridge, so there is nothing more to say about it.
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I do not like that layout, it gonna be a pita for large heatsinks with the ram slots right there. I also don't like the way that have the pci/pci-e slots either, its just silly you'd be blocking the pci-e x1 slots with dual slot video cards and if you were to use sli/crossfire you blocking both of them. leaving just the pci and pci-e x4 slot.
 
Well until eATX or something close is adopted, we're gonna have to deal with issues like those for a while to come. And hey if you want the pci slots, don't use CF or SLI.
 
Does anyone know what you can currently buy to use pci-e x4 slots? Only thing I can think of is RAID cards but are they even on the market?
 
Originally posted by: Quiksilver
Does anyone know what you can currently buy to use pci-e x4 slots? Only thing I can think of is RAID cards but are they even on the market?
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I assume the Asus Xonar D2X PCI-E sound card fits in a 4x slot.

I agree with the layout for larger CPU heatsinks possibly becoming a problem but they seem to have left plenty of room between the two 16x slots so there won't be anymore tight fits next to the NB. Using SLI/CF was already to the loss of PCI/PCI-E 1x slots.
 
It's only a reference design. 3rd party vendors (i.e. the boards you and I will actually buy) will be laid out better.

Larry: I see pictures, and the quote.
 
why is x58 a 2 chip solution? It should be like nvidia to integrate both north/south bridge together since the MCH is on the cpu now. Looks like a rushed job on Intel's part, IMHO.
 
Ok, now the link is coming up properly. Interesing mobo, too bad about the lack of PCI slots. I'd rather have PCI slots than PCI-E x1 slots, personally. And if it has triple-channel DDR3, then why are there four slots?
 
One certain thing (at least initially) is the physical distance betwen CPU and memory slots will be closer now that they communicate each other directly.
 
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