What would the benefits be of getting a board that supports a 1333 FSB over a 1066 FSB? I am hoping that I will be able to stick a Penryn chip on my board when they are released... and they are all 1333.
Assuming that it will be possible to add the chip, I am afraid that a 1066 FSB would seriously limit their performance. What kind of performance gains would you expect from a 1333 FSB, all other things being equal?
less than 10% in most applications. You won't miss it that badly, in fact I feel bad for the ocers with penryns since it is going to have lower multipliers on it, but according to one site, penryn won't be an ocer anyways. I wouldn't worry about it at this point, but I would look a bit into nahelem, intel's first cpu with an integrated mem controller, something tells me barcelona's sophisticated mem controller will beat the pants off it, but conroe proved you don't need an integrated mem controller to have low mem access times, so it's a tossup really how much of a performance increase it will bring. Either way, I think it just shows intel is worried about barcelona, so I would look a bit into that too 8)
Well, there's asus's 650i plus, which is an excellent board that has almost all the features of their 680i board (not striker) minus the 680i northbridge, so it runs cooler too. And there's also the gigabyte ds3/ds4 (hard to find teh ds4 in the US though) with revision 3.3 bios, that supports 1333fsb too. I would go for penryn only if you don't plan on ocing and want a cool running quad core. It's highly unlikely that you will really get much of a performance increase from it except for the high k+gate which should reduce transitor loss, so if penryn is released very cheap due to it's cheap manufacturing, then I would go for that, otherwise I say wait for k10, at least see some benchmarks before you buy, otherwise you may end up kicking yourself like I did by buying an am2 too early and then something else came out just a little while later that absolutely demolished it.
The DQ6 by Gigabyte (the rev 3.3) supports 1333 fsb and it has 8 sata connectors. If you need more than 8... well... you may want to start looking at server boards. The board is based on the p965 chipset.
I would go with this board as I previously stated, it has 6 sata connectors
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131153 or this one works too
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131073 slighlty more expensive, but this one uses the 680i chipset, which is designed to oc the highest, and it comes with a sound card. Both are good, far better than the 975x chipset anyways, I would also look at the dq6 too, that's another daclan board there (if you don't know what daclan is, my sig shows a bit, and I can explain that through pm a bit, though somethings are members only)
What would the benefits be of getting a board that supports a 1333 FSB over a 1066 FSB? I am hoping that I will be able to stick a Penryn chip on my board when they are released... and they are all 1333.
Assuming that it will be possible to add the chip, I am afraid that a 1066 FSB would seriously limit their performance. What kind of performance gains would you expect from a 1333 FSB, all other things being equal?
I typed it up in response to this thread, but posted it there (same subject). It shows 16% improvement in SuperPi on my settup.
I like this MSI board, though it has only 4x SATA, 1x eSATA, and 2x PATA ports. (I need the PATAs)
TB
And to I_Love_Tacos- la Repuesta es 'una Chalupa'. Or a soup-sandwich.
Yo quiero taco, tambien!
But still a funny name I agree 
