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On the chipset side, Ivy Bridge is supposed to finally support TRIM in RAID configurations. Wonder how that's going.
You'll probably be able to pick up a well appointed Z68 board for the price of a incoming mainstream Z77. Ensure that the Z68 is PCIe 3.0 compliant, and preferably equipped with a PLX bridge chip (lane extender) and you lose virtually nothing in comparison with the new chipset aside from mSATA, and in a couple of cases, Intel's Thunderbolt.Looks good to me... now lets see some motherboards. Not sure which chip to go with though, prob wait for the TS reviews.
Agree with the majority of your post...but just to be pedantic ...The only thing new is a new generation of northbridge 1155 motherboards, Z77, in order to take full advantage of features with the new CPU.
RST 11.5 (TRIM support for RAID amongst other features*) is supported not only on Panther Point (Ivy Bridge), but Cougar Point (Sandy Bridge-P67/Z68/H61 etc.), Ibex Peak ( Lynnfield P55/H55/Q57 etc) and Eagle Lake/Montevina ( usually known as ICH10R/10D/10DO/ for P45 family/X38/X48/X58 etc. desktop, and ICH9M,9EM mobile)Trim and raid is supposedly sorted in the new rst's but I didn't hear if it was ivy only. With luck older chipsets get it too...
This.Darth Shiv said:
Disappointing that SATA 3 and PCIe lanes are not given any real priority in mainstream boards. Will be interesting to see if they do anything with the next gen enthusiast level chipset.
DAOWAce said:
This.Darth Shiv said:
Disappointing that SATA 3 and PCIe lanes are not given any real priority in mainstream boards. Will be interesting to see if they do anything with the next gen enthusiast level chipset.
The SATA 3 ports especially.
Get it together Intel, AMD's motherboards have full on native support for 6 SATA3 ports and dual 16x PCI-E slots. Even X79 doesn't support more than 2 SATA 3 ports.
I'm tired of being limited by SATA 3 connectivity on Intel's boards when AMD's had better since their APU. I'm not about to buy a $500 add-in card just so I can run more drives at SATA 3 without terrible performance and third party controllers/compatibility issues. Rather spend that money on some more SSDs and RAID them, oh wait, I can't! *sigh*
Not happy.
Oh well, I guess Z77 owners will have to console themselves with 4-6 ports of better performance...Get it together Intel, AMD's motherboards have full on native support for 6 SATA3 ports
...of PCI-E 2.0and dual 16x PCI-E slots.
No. Much better to have terrible* performance, and RAID and TRIM issues from the (AMD) SB950I'm not about to buy a $500 add-in card just so I can run more drives at SATA 3 without terrible performance and third party controllers/compatibility issues.
I saw a documentary where local (New Zealand) shopping-mall ninjas were successfully cured of brand fetishism by effectively stepping back and employing a degree of objectivity. Maybe check out your local community notice boards for a similar type of program if the depression becomes acute.Not happy.