Opinions - ASUS putting considerable focus on Intel X79 chipset

[HEXUS]

Lots of boards to come from motherboard giant.

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[brasco]

Yep, interested in x79, tenatively... I expect the 3960x etc will be overpriced but the chipset definitely looks to be promising. I'm liking the 8 DIMMs, 8x8 anyone!?! If it spanks the 990x as much as they say and OC's well it may sneak onto my list...

I think it's all about managing expectations

[bert7]

this is why AMD needs to pull its finger out and produce the next bulldozer, trouble is i think it wont be good enough.

[keithwalton]

Do I want it ? Very much so it is certainly worth drooling over.
Will I be replacing my 5 1/2 year old asus i975x board with it ? Nope. My old board is still rock solid (no sign of bulging caps of old) on its 2nd cpu (core 2 quad 6600 @3GHz, orig build was core 2 duo) and there is nothing it can't do a little slower than a modern cpu can. The only thing that keeps getting an upgrade is the gpu.
Intel and AMD realised a few years back that even the most basic modern cpu is fast enough for the majority of uses and have backed off the performance race.

They need to take a leaf out of the automotive industry and design computers to fail after 3 years as with the current down turn people will hang onto machines for a long time

[ypsylon]

Well to be honest Asus is my only hope that I will get what I want. So far everything I have seen missed point completely. Waiting for new X79 WS board. OC yes, nice, but not too much. All what matters are slots and plenty of storage connectivity.

To be honest I won't be jumping straight to X79. There is little to justify that kind of investment (10-15% performance boost). But at some stage certainly. At the moment - plenty fuel left in my X58 systems.

@Keith
I know what you mean. Old Mercedes from 1980s will run for 1500000 km without issues but new Golfs falling apart after 3-4 years.

[shaithis]

If my motherboard dies, then I may consider it.

I do hate that they have changed the socket though or that they haven't released a workstation 1155 board.

I need roughly 48 PCI-E lanes and in a certain configuration, no 1155 board I have seen can support that

Although perhaps it's time to shrink the main PC and move the last of my bulk storage to a DAS or another NAS...

Hmmmm

[aceuk]

It's good to see that motherboard manufacturers have finally ditched PCI slots and gone completely PCIe.