News - New Intel Ivy Bridge release dates revealed?

[HEXUS]

Sources suggest a gradual role-out.

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[watercooled]

Something I've just realised, what's with the 2xSATA6 ports? It's not like it's just to up-sell you to 2011, the X79 has the same limitation...

[Brewster0101]

Intel chip sets aren't known to offer good value/specs compared to AMD's offerings. This means that motherboards will have to have a separate additional controller.

[jimbouk]

Dang have to wait until June for the new Ultrabooks!

[J3FFW1SH]

Intel chip sets aren't known to offer good value/specs compared to AMD's offerings. This means that motherboards will have to have a separate additional controller.

which is one reason I have consistently bought into AMD - yes their CPU's don't perform as well as Intel offerings but my PhenomII x4 955 is still an awesome processor and handles most of what I throw it's way - At the time I built my PC I would have had to buy a dedicated Raid card to handle my Raid 5 config if I had gone with Intel wheras with AMD I have 10 SATA ports spread over two controllers. 6 ports on one controller for my Raid 5 and the other 4 have my velociraptor with Windows7, my BDD and a Raid 0 for my XP Pro install.

[TomWilson]

Something I've just realised, what's with the 2xSATA6 ports? It's not like it's just to up-sell you to 2011, the X79 has the same limitation...

I just noticed the same thing, pretty disappointing