Gigabyte Shows Off An X99 Motherboard, Too
Everybody is showing off their X99 motherboards. Good times!
Yesterday, we informed you about MSI's new X99 motherboard; today, we bring you one of Gigabyte's X99 boards – the X99 Gaming G1 WiFi.
Looking at the board, we can immediately see the large LGA2011-3 socket, along with the eight DDR4 memory slots to which it is wired. This should allow you to run quad-channel memory. Moving on, lower on the board we also see four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots along with three PCI-Express x1 slots. Between the PCI-Express x16 slots we also find the wireless radio, along with an M.2 slot. We're not sure if the wireless radio can be used at the same time as an M.2 SSD, so we'll have to see a better image before we come to any conclusions.
For other storage connectivity, we find two SATA-Express interfaces, which if unused provide us with four SATA3 (6 Gb/s) ports, in addition to the already-present six SATA3 (6 Gb/s) ports.
The motherboard appears to be powered by a standard 24-pin ATX connector along with a single SATA power connector. The EPS connectors for CPU power are not fully visible, but we can see part of them behind the top VRM heatsink. We can also see that Gigabyte has equipped the motherboard with dedicated audio hardware.
At this point, we don't know more about the X99 Gaming G1 WiFi. For now, we're going to have to wait until mid-September, which is when the Haswell-E CPUs are expected to debut. We expect to see the motherboards arrive simultaneously, so stay tuned for more.
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Has anyone yet confirmed what the max RAM will be with these boards?
Ian.
Expecting solo professionals to handle 300% higher workloads while at the same time reducing the max RAM
per thread by 30% is a bad idea.
Ian.
Back to the topic - I am expecting the boards to be able to support 128 GBs when paired with a Xeon. I don't think Intel will allow the memory controller of Haswell-E to go more than 64 Gbs. Else, they would canibalize their Xeon sales. I hope I am wrong.
Haswell 8 core 16 threads / xeon 16 core 32 threads
X99 Ddr 4 16 gig per channel 128 / sr 2 evga 128gig
Seriously if your gamer avoid these specs (its a waste of money well the 8 channel x99. not the haswell cpu)
If you buy ferraris and enjoy driving to the shops for milk then enjoy ddr4 costs.
I've already seen normal HD use up 64GB. It's not enough for 4K, period, especially not if the no. of cores is
moving from 6 to 8.
Nuke is fine for those who can afford it. There's a lot of solo pro's out there on a tight budget.
> Back to the topic - I am expecting the boards to be able to support 128 GBs when paired
> with a Xeon. I don't think Intel will allow the memory controller of Haswell-E to go more than
> 64 Gbs. Else, they would canibalize their Xeon sales. I hope I am wrong.
Then Intel would be really stupid if they did such a thing. Besides, the demands scale with industry
& sectors; I doubt it would harm XEON sales when those needing a lot more than 256GB will not be
buying consumer setups anyway, eg. ANSYS, GIS, defense imaging & photogrammatry, etc.
Ian.
Haswell 8 core 16 threads / xeon 16 core 32 threads
X99 Ddr 4 16 gig per channel 128 / sr 2 evga 128gig
Seriously if your gamer avoid these specs (its a waste of money well the 8 channel x99. not the haswell cpu)
If you buy ferraris and enjoy driving to the shops for milk then enjoy ddr4 costs.
-waste of money yes , but not for the rich -
That extreme haswell is like a bugatti as you said , and for some (not for me) it's worth it . The 4channel memory too.
BUT thoose Xeon E5-xxxx v2 and v3 are like buses or trucks , they get the job done , but they are waaaayyyy overkill (and damn expensive from 1.5k to 3k)
Saying XEONs are overkill depends entirely on the user and the intended task. For those at whom XEONs are
aimed, just one of them is almost certainly never enough, except for ANSYS perhaps. For GIS and many other
tasks, dozens at least are preferable. They're expensive because they do cost a lot to make (lots of cache
RAM on those things, and other logic for multi-socket links, etc.) and the target market can afford such pricing.
3K for a CPU is nothing when a complete system can easily be $1.5M. I have an old SGI in my garage which
was about that much when new in 1993 (24 CPUs, 2GB RAM, which in 1993 was enormous), used by various
car companies, oil/gas corps, etc., over the years, until I bought it used for a snip.
Ian.