Intel's new Z97 chipset w/SATA Express ports

snowhiker

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Intel's new Z97 chipset w/SATA Express ports.

HardOCP review of an ASUS board here.
 

CougTek

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I'm in awe and thoroughly overwelmed.

Seriously, the new chipset is better than nothing, but I won't write to my mother about it. Not even an e-mail.
 

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So what's next after Z97? In Q2 - 2014 the Haswell-E & Broadwell chips with the X99 chipset? That's my target to upgrade my i7 860 Lynnfield.
 

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I very much doubt the first Broadwell that will be introduced will be compatible with the X99 platform as they will be 4-core/8-thread max variants. I haven't read about it for quite some time, but the first Broadwell processors should fit on an LGA1150 of some kind. I remember Broadwell's launch has been delay. What was originally supposed to be a November or December novelty might very well wait until February. I don't know for sure and I hope I'm wrong on this.

Haswell-E, that's another story. Those will have up to 8-core for consumer chips and I expect those to fit on an X99-based motherboard. We'll know for sure during the second week of September, when they'll start selling.

Broadwell-E won't arrive before September 2015 during the early days of IDF San Francisco, assuming Intel keeps introducing the -E consumer processors at the same time as the enterprise-grade -EP Xeon.
 
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