Posted on Wednesday, March 30 2011 @ 22:36 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
VR Zone
spotted some leaked slides that detail Intel's future X79 chipset, which will replace the X58 in Q4 2011.
Chinese site it.com.cn has got their hands on newest roadmap of the Intel X79 platform. According to the site and roadmap, X79 will be the successor to the three year old then X58 platform in Q4 2011. As many have already known, the new processors will be called the "Sandy Bridge E" series and will be seen with 2011 land grids, therefore compatible with X79 motherboards of socket LGA2011.
Major improvements were to be seen in X79. Rumours were certain that the new platform and CPUs will beat the current flagship Intel Core i7-990X hands down. Revealing even more information from Intel's roadmap were some features to be seen in X79 as shown below.
