During this Computex, we could see some socket 2011 motherboards based on the Intel X79 chipset, which will be targeted at the forthcoming enthusiast-grade “Sandy Bridge-E” processor. All manufacturers made it clear that the boards displayed are early mock-ups, and that the final specifications for the products may be different, which is why we won’t publish the specifications for each individual motherboard. From what we could see, socket 2011 motherboards based on the Intel X79 chipset will come with support for a four-channel memory configuration, making the memory to be accessed as a 256-bit device and proving double the bandwidth as compared to the dual-channel configuration and 33% more bandwidth than the triple-channel configuration.

The socket 2011 will have a dual-latch mechanism system, as we show below.

These are the motherboards we saw during Computex:

• ASUS: CIX79, CIX79 Deluxe, CIX79 EVO, CIX79 LE, CIX79 Plus, and CIX79 Pro
• ASRock: X79 Extreme4
• ECS: X79R-A
• Gigabyte: GA-X79A-UD3
• MSI: X79A-GD65, X79A-GD70, and X79A-GD80
• Sapphire: PB-CI7X79N

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