thankyou very much for finding that as I was finidng it impossible to find any sandy bridge mobos :)
in it's specs, it says 32GB RAM maximum (though as everyone persuaded me, I would never need that much) yet it only has 4 RAM slots. are asus planning ahead for 8GB sticks or do some already exist??
Yea Sandy Bridge is only dual channel, hence 4 slots. x58 uses triple channel memory, so has 6 slots (3 pairs). And the Rampage III as a 48GB limit, which would need 6x8GB sticks to fill.thankyou very much for finding that as I was finidng it impossible to find any sandy bridge mobos :)
in it's specs, it says 32GB RAM maximum (though as everyone persuaded me, I would never need that much
Back when x58 was first released the limit was 24GB on most motherboards and 4GB sticks weren't available yet.
8GB sticks for desktops will be made eventually.
does that mean that sandy bridge is worse than the previous i7s?
the westmere gulftown i7 looks on paper to have better specifications on every front
most reviews i've seen seem to say westmere was better for multiple monitors, yet sandy bridge is better for gaming. will sandy bridge's dual channel limit negatively affect me if I find I do need more RAM?
http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-ss....html....check this out before you buy a motherboard..latest Intel chipset for SB...if you're going with SSD's this is worth considering...Already 1 board on market with Asus etc incoming.
If your going to run multi screen set ups then ATI is the card manuf that has the leading edge atm..everything I read would indicate they scale better in Xfire once the resolutions get hi as in mutiple monitors.
Yup that case I linked is the bees knees imo lol..glad u like it.
cheers
simmo; thanks for the heads up
Everlong; ah, thanks for the info. is sandy bridge a slight step back as it's the first in the second generation line?
I wouldn't say it's a step back, but I can see how it seems so. I dunno why they removed triple-channel memory from it.
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