Sandy Bridge E & Waimea Bay (Finally)

[Edrick]

Finally something worth upgrading to.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/tylersburg-highend-desktop-successor-will-be-called-waimea-bay/8877.html

Looks like it will be very nice. (No intergrated GPU)

 

[VirtualLarry]

"Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) & Input Output Hub (IOH)
Intel QPI will be scrapped alongside the IOH. A single 100MHz Base Clock will drive the Waimea Bay system."

QPI being scrapped already? I have a hard time believing that.

"Sadly, USB 3.0 integration is still "in development" and Integrated USB 3.0 does not coincide with Patsburg's Time to Market (TTM) schedule."

Interestingly though, it will have PCI-E 3.0. Strange how Intel delayed the standard on that, and now their chipset is going to be the first out of the gate supporting that standard. Underhanded as usual.

"These two portions give rise to 6 AHCI capable SATA2/3 ports and eight 6Gb/s SATA3/SAS ports. Of the 6 AHCI capable SATA ports, two are 6Gb/s SATA3 ports, and four are 3Gb/s SATA2 ports. It is possible to RAID all 6 AHCI ports. "

That's retarded, that it supports SATA6G, yet only two ports are capable of that speed. When ATA-100 was introduced, and supported natively by the chipset, they didn't just include a single ATA-100 port, and then a secondary ATA-33 port, they made both ports ATA-100. Why the hell can't they do that with SATA? If there isn't enough bandwidth between the CPU and PCH, then they should have engineered a bigger link.

Does anyone know, for AMD's new 800-series chipsets, do they support more than two SATA6G ports?

"New Voltage Regulation Standard
The Sandy Bridge-E FCLGA2011 processors will require a new Intel voltage regulator standard for its Voltage Regulator Module (VRM). Instead of relying on the traditional linear Voltage Identification (VID) codes seen on VR11.1, VR12 will use a 25MHz 3wire serial interface for Serial VID (SVID). VR12 will offer SVID steps with 5mV resolution opposed to VR11.1's 6.25mV resolution (using a 8-bit VID table). "

No more pin soldering hardmods to change your VID, I guess.

"Patsburg HEDT Active Thermal Solution
The Low Profile Active Thermal Solution used on the PCH of the Waimea Bay HEDT Reference Platform is designed to stay clear of multiple lengthy graphics accelerators. "

Looks like noisy, failure-prone, chipset HSF assemblies are back.

 

[solofly]

Waimea Bay platform, here I come...

 

[VirtualLarry]

If Bulldozer is available on AM3 platform, then AMD will have suceeded in having the longest-lived platform, far exceeding Intel.

This new socket every year or two is BS.

 

[Martimus]

Does anyone know, for AMD's new 800-series chipsets, do they support more than two SATA6G ports?

I am pretty sure they are 100% SATA6G on the 800 series chip set.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2959/3
There is another article that explains how AMD has all 6G, while Intel doesn't for some reason. I think it is the Corsair article, but I don't have time to link it right now.

 

[formulav8]

blah I say

 

[aigomorla]

Hurry up with my DAYAM X68....



But i heard the voltage tweaks are actually good.
More stable power, u should require less vcore to hold current clock.

This is according to my friend whose got to play with one.

Looks like noisy, failure-prone, chipset HSF assemblies are back.

ES boards never come with full retail cooling solutions.

 

[Nemesis 1]

If Bulldozer is available on AM3 platform, then AMD will have suceeded in having the longest-lived platform, far exceeding Intel.

This new socket every year or two is BS.

Larry If you PM me your street address I will send you a really nice state of the Art CRING TOWEL

 

[OCGuy]

Bring on Sandy Bridge!