P67 vs. X58?

[bikeracer4487]

So, perhaps I should start off by saying I know about the Sandy Bridge recall but I already have an i7 950 so that doesn't affect me. My question, rather, is what is the deal with the Sandy Bridge platform? I get that it's a direct upgrade to an LGA 1156 platform, as pretty much everything is better...but what about when it's compared to X58? I'm just confused because it SEEMS like LGA 1155 is the new enthusiast platform...but it still lacks LGA 1366's PCI Express lanes and true triple channel memory support and I've heard nothing about any kind of LGA 1366 refresh or a platform set to replace LGA1366... Anyways, it all just seems a little backwards to me...

 

[animal]

there is an upcoming upgrade to the X58....it's the Z68 I believe and will be used on the upcoming 2011 socket due out Q2 2011......the 2011 socket is the replacement for the 1366

 

[bikeracer4487]

@animal:

Yeah, I had heard of the Z68, but looking at the leaked details here: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2010/11/22/intel-z60-express-leak/1, it just looks like a minor update to the P67. However, I hadn't heard of the LGA2011 which I DID confirm will replace LGA 1366 but the chipset for that is the X68.

@PsychoSaysDie:

I know, I just didn't want people jumping in and being all "Stay away from Sandy Bridge! It's cursed!" Anyways, I do see in the benchmarks that the Sandy Bridge memory bandwidth is on-par with the LGA1366 processors...which is surprising...but it certainly doesn't "destroy" the X58 bandwidth...in fact, the 950 beats all the Sandy Bridge processors in the SiSoftware Memory bandwidth benchmark: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-14.html

 

[bikeracer4487]

Bike,

All good bro. You can't buy a SB processor or board ANYWHERE now anyway.. Buhahahhahahahahaha

And yes it decimates X58 Triple channel bandwidth ....

Disreguard the 5.7Ghz.. It's 4.6GHz

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/Jean-Luc-Picard/2090.jpg

Well damn...kinda invalidates the benchmarks I was lookin' at...I ran the same test on my computer...didn't optimize testing conditions or anything, so it could've been higher but I only got like ~14-15 MB/s and that's with 3x2GB DDR3-1600's @ 8-8-8-24...so my mem's also not as fast OR overclocked...so I dunno, not sure how much of a difference that would make, but ANYWAYS, I'll take my 36 PCI-E lanes over slightly-to-moderately faster memory any day of the week.