Monday, March 16th 2009
DFI LANParty Dark P55 T3eH6 Pictured
DFI seems to be almost ready with a motherboard based on Intel's P55 chipset, that supports the company's upcoming LGA-1156 socket processors. This motherboard did not get the limelight at this year's CeBIT event. It doesn't seem like DFI finalized the board's cooling, hence the pictures don't show coolers over the chipset and VRM areas. The rest of the board's features are pretty visuals:
- 6+2 phase CPU power circuit,
- Four DDR3 DIMM slots for dual-channel DDR3 memory
- P55 chipset used without any additional PCI-Express bridge chip
- Three PCI-E x16 slots, most likely two of them are routed to the CPU, arrange as x8, x8 with both populated, while the third is routed to the P55 chipset's 8-lane PCI-E hub
- Six SATA II ports from the PCH, two from an onboard controller, the same controller also provides an IDE connector
20 Comments on DFI LANParty Dark P55 T3eH6 Pictured
And fom the boards layout i dont see any nice looking cooler planned too.What happened to the NB and SB being separate and having two beautiful heatsinks connected with pipes and staff...:(
Also how does the new PCIE works?It say t pcie sockets are connected to the CPU while the 3rd on the chipset.Along with everything else the PCU will have the pcie to handle now?
Or the memory controller being integrated will help on this???
"teh sex"
It'll cost more, CPUs will cost more, memory will cost more, might as well go x58 (or stick with P45).
Dual channel... Dual Core... mainstream P55 chipset... it's meant to be cheaper and use the new architecture. :slap:
i7s do dual channel just fine, just make a cheaper board for them and there's you mainstream. If you need dual core, P45 is there for you.
Resale value of i5 will be terrible too, you can't fit it to P45 or I7 boards, just P55. You can't use some older processor to update your bios if your new i5 processor isn't recognized.
I used this E7200 on P965 board, how nice was that, then upgraded my motherboard to two generations newer and same processor still works.
Who knows a year from now I might be using i5 and loving it, we'll have to wait and see :)
its going to be a hell of a lot cheaper, while still having i7's onboard memory controller.
core i7 is a quad core with HT, and a triple channel memory controller. thats ALL in the CPU.
core i5 is dual cor e with HT and a dual channel controller. Thats going to be a LOT cheaper and easier to produce.
Then the motherboards are less advanced with less pins to the socket, less wires to the ram slots.... the cost savings could be pretty big here. Yes its weird to see two high end sockets on the market at the same time from the same manufacturer, but i think the prices will tell the difference in the end.
i7-920 isn't than expensive, about the same as Core series quads. It's just the motherboard part that is much. Well both will be cheaper in i5, but it's still dual core at first. Or is Lynnfields still coming same time as Havendale?
The p55 will shine with the dual cores and not the quads.
here's a bit more
www.techpowerup.com/?73345
www.techpowerup.com/?78383
www.techpowerup.com/?82911