Posted on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 21:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
reports Intel's Z87 chipset will have six SATA 6Gbps connectors. The bad news though is that there will still be no PCI Express 3.0 support.
Intel recently announced the Z77 chipset, a top of the line chipset designed to complement high-end Ivy Bridge parts like the Core i7 3770K, which sounds like a match made in heaven. (Or a match made in Taiwan Ed. )
The successor needed for Haswell processors or the fourth generation Core processors as some like to call them is simply called Z87. The interesting thing about the Z87 is that this chipset has all six SATA connectors supporting SATA 6Gb/sec while the current Z87 has two SATA 6Gb/sec while the remaining four are SATA 3Gb/sec.
