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Intel P45 chipset spotted naked!
Author: Richard SwinburnePublished: 5th March 2008
Intel P45 - Naked for all the world to see.
MSI’s P45 Diamond model is pretty special – not only does it have more SATA ports than you can shake an armful of hard drives at (don’t, you’ll drop them!) – six native from ICH10R and no less than seven from a silicon image chipset and possibly one dedicated to eSATA duty, it also uses a PCI-Express lane splitter chip from IDT. This makes the single PCI-Express x16 lane into two x8s for proper CrossFire – no longer are we subjected to an imperfect x16 and x4. In addition there should also be CircuPipe cooling and Hi-C low profile capacitors.
Foxconn also showed off its P45 Digital Life ELA board with three PCI-Express x16 slots – two x8 from the same IDT splitter chip and the third at x4, as well as a very strangely placed northbridge plopped between the CPU and memory! The ELA nomenclature comes from the “Eagle Lake” codename Intel gave the P45 chipset – Foxconn are apparently proud of this because “it helped Intel design the Eaglelake”. It’s P45A-S is better looking with its black PCB, but it lacks the IDT splitter chip and now only has a PCI-Express x16 and x4 slots, even if the layout is a bit more traditional.
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shame they don't have sli support..... damn you nvidia!
*It's a referance from short circuit, I'm not a pervert lol*
I will probably end up regretting this in 10 years like Bill and his 640K of ram
Even if the board is $900? :p
Areca uses Intel's RAID processors, so I suppose it isn't impossible for intel to plop one on a motherboard. Something tells me its not ever going to be on a desktop board mind you.
I don't see the point of so many onboard SATA ports either. Just marketing, can't see anyone ever using them. Now, if they could implement a zero-channel RAID like on some server boards, it would be great.
for that kind of data protection built in and not having to use a massive external card? heck yes.
wouldn't be less expensive than my current Striker + Areca RAID6 card setup
Anyone else think ICH10R's Six SATA is a bit ****? I'm gonna lay into them tomorrow morning in the press conference.
of course if you want dual x16 PCI-E 2.0 then X38 has been out for a while ...
I wish for dual X16 2.0 SLI on a Intel platform (and no not grandma i680) Nvida has the best cards, and Intel the best procs/chipsets, why dont they just get their heads out of the sand. Unless AMD/ATI is holding them down...
which is why i have an X38 board ;)
Technically Intel chipsets can run SLI now but the nVidia drivers check for the presence of an nVidia chipset before enabling SLI.
Give Intel SLI & nVidia lose a big chunk of revenue (iirc on launch 680i chipsets cost mobo manufacturers $140 each). Perhaps Intel aren't willing to pay the royalty per chipset that nVidia reckon they need to replace that income?
i think it's fine, doesn't the current ICH9R have have 6 SATA ports? *looks at iP35 Pro* see, 6 internal via southbridge, and 2 external via another controller