P55 Motherboards in Computex 2009

[lopri]

Update (6/8/09)

VR-Zone has a ton of pictures.

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Bit-Tech has an early look at P55 offerings from usual suspects.

MSI's P55-GD65 is one of three Intel P55 motherboards the firm will show at Computex, but we managed to (literally) twist an arm or two and get some very early pictures of its design.

As it has been known, there is no more 'north bridge' on these boards as the new CPUs from Intel will contain PCIe controllers on-board. Another feature of interest is a flash socket by memory slots. It's obviously a gesture to add value on the chipset now that only 'big' chip on the boards is a south bridge. I guess it's in the same vein with 'ReadyBoost', 'Sideport Memory', or 'Instant Boot', etc..


More here.

Total 36 boards here

Clarkdale, too!

 

[n7]

Interesting.

I already can tell these will be majorly overpriced initially...

 

[buddatech]

The small slot by the DDR3 memory slots is for an additional SSD. We were told it?s not like TurboMemory - instead it can be used by applications inside the OS so they launch faster because of the much higher I/O throughput. We?re not sure yet what the socket is ? either PCI-Express or a custom port ? but clearly it?s upgradable. Gigabyte told us that the motherboard with the NAND Flash soldered instead of the mystery upgrade slot was a proof of concept only and might not make the final cut.

Seems very interesting

 

[Zensal]

So looking at the pictures, the MSI P55 board looks right, but the Gigabyte board still has a heatsink in the Northbridge position on their P55. Am I missing something?

 

[lopri]

Added more links in the first post.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: Zensal
So looking at the pictures, the MSI P55 board looks right, but the Gigabyte board still has a heatsink in the Northbridge position on their P55. Am I missing something?

I think that's an X58 board.

Originally posted by: n7
Interesting.

I already can tell these will be majorly overpriced initially...

25-phase PWM FTW!

 

[Cookie Monster]

The DFI P55 motherboards look tasty, especially the nifty feature it has with BIOs flashing. You can BIOs flash remotely by connecting it to a second computer using a USB cable.

 

[lopri]

VR-Zone has a ton of pictures.

Click

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: buddatech

We?re not sure yet what the socket is ? either PCI-Express or a custom port ? but clearly it?s upgradable. Gigabyte told us that the motherboard with the NAND Flash soldered instead of the mystery upgrade slot was a proof of concept only and might not make the final cut.

Seems very interesting

That's an ONFI slot.