Tuesday, October 4th 2011
Intel X58 to Retire in 2012
In 2012, it's curtain's for Intel's iconic Nehalem/Tylersburg platform, with the company issuing the Intel X58 chipset a schedule for discontinuation. The chipset has exactly 12 more months to attain EOL (end of life) status. Intel will continue to take orders for Intel X58 till April 27, 2012, the last of these orders will have shipped by October 12, 2012. Intel X58 + ICH10/R is the de facto chipset for Intel's Core i7 client processors in the LGA1366 package.
To motherboard vendors, the X58 I/O Hub (northbridge) is priced at US $39, and another $14 for the ICH10R southbridge. In November 2011, Intel is releasing the proper successor for the Nehalem/Tylersburg platform, the Sandy Bridge-E/Patsburg, consisting of Core i7 processors in the LGA2011 package, and Intel X79 chipset.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
To motherboard vendors, the X58 I/O Hub (northbridge) is priced at US $39, and another $14 for the ICH10R southbridge. In November 2011, Intel is releasing the proper successor for the Nehalem/Tylersburg platform, the Sandy Bridge-E/Patsburg, consisting of Core i7 processors in the LGA2011 package, and Intel X79 chipset.
22 Comments on Intel X58 to Retire in 2012
Sad day :(
Only thing that i see required to upgrade is graphic card.
Sandy Bridge users can rest... users on X58 should consider buying Gulftown if they are need of raw perfomance and that's it...
I think I will stay with my i970 for awhile longer.
Unless you OC it to 5GHz on air :roll:tis a shame such a platform has to be dropped. But hey, this is how it goes in the PC world. All hail the X58. All hail the i7 9xx :rockout: :respect:
- PCI-Express 3.0
- PCIe Root complex is inside the CPU package
- There is no northbridge chip. X79 is a PCH, that's one less hot chip to bother about
- Quad-Channel DDR3-2133 MHz capable, a 166% memory bandwidth increase over Westmere 6c/12t
That said, You really have no need to upgrade from i7-970 to anything for the next 2~3 years. After that, the rumored requirement of UEFI with future operating systems (if it's true), will force you to upgrade.Some reviews / testing I have seen of the x79 and sandy-e is not that great.
It can barely keep pace with the stock 2600k and other area the pure extra cores does deliver but not as much as expected.
www.guru3d.com/article/sandy-bridge-e-and-x79-preview/
Going from anything equivalent to the 2500k to sandy-e is a okay upgrade but only if you have too. Might be disappointed, gaming wise definitely yes you would be disappointed.
Anything below a 2500k/equivalent is a good upgrade to sandy-e.
IE: more or less, raw power 2600k = 2960xm = 2x Q9550 = 90% of 980X EE.
Gaming sandy-e is trying to keep pace with the 2600k and just barely gets better scores sometimes for raw power, not for gaming.
Comparison chart: www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html
After release and once there is actual proper testing and drivers for the x79 then we would know if the x58 death was a waste or not.
Intel should have their game back on in June 2012.
Nehalem has been a great socket and she will last me along as socket 939 on the amd side did.
i'm planning on putting a 980 in this badboy and getting alteast another 2 years out of this platform with only a GPU upgrade maybe in a year.