Gigabyte Shows Off Core i7 Prototype Motherboard
Category: MotherboardsPosted: August 27, 2008 07:30AM
Author: jammin
As we already know, the first Intel Nehalem chips will hit under the Core i7 moniker, but what sort of motherboards can we expect to go along with them? Gigabyte has been showing a prototype Core i7 board at the NVISION 08 conference in San Jose, CA this week, which looks to cram in the features. Based on the X58 chipset, it has four PCIe x16 slots, and two more x4 (open ended) slots. That means you can stick six graphics cards in there if you so wish (12 monitors from one system would be an impressive sight). The board also supports up to 24GB of DDR3-1333 or 6GB of DDR3-1900/2000 (with overclocked 2GB DIMMS) and sports a 12-phase CPU power design. Gigabyte has apparently said there will be room for a bit of Overclocking and that they have paid special attention to ensure "workstation-class stability". Looks like there is plenty of scope for dropping a whole pile of cash here then.
