Intel's X79 Sandy Bridge Extreme motherboard spotted at COMPUTEX

[GoodInk]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=30617

Here's a prototype ASUS board with the LGA2011 socket. Flanked by four DIMM slots that work together to form a quad-channel memory interface, the huge socket dominates the centre of the board. Indeed, it's so big that it requires two levers to keep the chip in place.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=30620

The X79 Extreme4, pictured below, supports the upcoming Sandy Bridge Extreme chip that's presented on an LGA2011 form factor. The chip is going to be huge, evinced by the size of the socket, and it's flanked by four memory slots that combine to offer quad-channel throughput.

[GoodInk]

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/10763/

The red and black board looks pretty amazing as it has a ton of SATA ports and numerous buttons next to those. Now that the first X79 board pictures have started to be shown we can see that the rumors of quad channel memory are true. This specific board also boasts quad PCIe x16 slots! We can't wait until LGA2011 hits the street later this year!

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/10778/

It also looks like Socket R is going to be using a brand new screw retention mechanism for CPU coolers rather than the push-pull pin type that is currently in use.

[Enigma8750]

This Mutiple Memory Placement is a bit weird. I am sure that this new extreme Chip with have a built in 6900 series or a 460 on board GPU on the chip itself.

[Neuromancer]

Judging by intels past GPUs more like a Fx5200 :P

jk


Looks interesting cant wait to see the performance.

[GoodInk]

I like the looks of the ram slots. I did notice some connectors on the Asus board under the 24 pin that I don't know what they are, intel thunderbolt?

[The Duke]

I wonder how the ram slots will do with massive air coolers?

Also the yellow mobo is sweet lol