The LGA 2011 socket is a new Intel socket set to replace the current 1366 sockets. The processors for this socket are expected to be released and officially launched in Q4 later this year.
Some of the key expectations of this new socket from Intel are that the LGA 2011 boards will come with:
Two boards have been publicly displaced so far one from ASUS as seen here:
C1X79 EVO
The other being one from Gigabyte as seen here:
GA-X79A-UD3
What is interesting to note, even from the lower end motherboards is that there is a lot of PCI-E connectivity integrated into the LGA 2011 socket itself. Out of the 5 PCI-E slots on the UD3, four are wired to the LGA 2011 and 1 to the northbridge so what this essentially means is that all boards on this socket will provide at least 2 way SLI and CFX support.
The Quad channel memory is also something new we are yet to see, currently we have triple channel memory.
For the performance enthusiasts there is also apparent support for a 10-way Sata 6GB/s RAID controller with the UD3 whilst the ASUS board was a little more quiet about the features it had to offer.
Antec has made more cases than I care to remember, and I've owned a fair…
I must admit I've been out of the VR game for some time now, I…
TerraMaster is one of the hottest NAS brands on the market, I run one of…
Corsair has launched the Corsair ONE i500, a compact yet powerful desktop PC. This new…
In a surprising twist to NVIDIA's release schedule, the GeForce RTX 5080 is now rumored…
Lenovo has made headlines with its latest leak, revealing the Ryzen 8050 name for its…