Intel’s much expected consumer version of its Patsburg chipset appears to have
been christened and rather than going with the logical move of calling
it X68, Intel decided to call its new baby X79. This somehow seems to
make sense considering we’ve got the upcoming Z68 chipset coming and
presumably in a move to reduce the confusion to a degree, Intel decided
to come up with something different that didn’t follow its current
nomenclature.
The X79 chipset is still en route for a Q4 launch alongside Intel’s
new LGA-2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors where the E stands for Enthusiast
according to the leaked roadmap slides that appeared on it.com.cn.
The slides look legit, although to be frank, we’re quite surprised at
some of the features Intel decided to add to its enthusiast consumer
platform. One thing is clear if these are the final specs, the X79
chipset is going to be the most expensive consumer chipset to date from
Intel.
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