![]() Combine that with the successful release of Gulftown and you have just created enough incentive to re-release X58 motherboards in an updated jacket, as that is exactly what is happening anno Q2 2010 in the motherboard market. More costly yes, but by embedding a NEC USB 3.0 controller and Marvell SATA3 6G SATA/AHCI/RAID controller onto that motherboard you can actually bring some interesting features to the table. That sparked ODMs to bring these new innovations to your doorsteps by inventing solutions themselves. As you can see, three new dynamics have hit the industry in the high-end segment, and for two of them. And then Intel released their Core i7 980X six-core Gulftown based processor. Meanwhile, USB 3.0 is bluntly ignored by them, SATA3 (6Gbit) is also ignored by Intel. ![]() ![]() Intel is riding it out as long as they can as well, people will purchase this chipset anyway. Though Intel is not updating this chipset technology has advanced a decent chunk. It is still Intel's most expensive and high-end chipset, still very capable of delivering massive performance for socket 1366 Core i7 based processors. The X58 chipset from Intel this year will already be two years old, that's right. ![]() ASRock X58 Extreme3 - An enthusiast infrastructure at a budget price ![]()
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