Two interesting slides from Intel leaked today through TPU with the source being Hermitage Akihabara, the slides give the final specs and features of the upcoming Series 9 chipsets. Though there are n... Intel Finalizes Spec Sheet series for H97 - Z97 and X99 Chipsets
Dynamic storage accelerator is also present on Z87 and its here to improve SSD writes when cpu is in low power mode aka C3/C6/C7 states, so it doesn't slowdown.
PCI-e configuration I want from top to bottom: x1 x16 --- whatever, I won't use this x16 ---whatever, I won't use this x16 The PCI-e configuration on most boards is usually really retarded. Please, somebody make a board with this configuration. I want dual spaced x16 slots with additional slots that are actually useable. Is that so hard to do?
Best one I've seen was an MSI X58 board: X16 [something] [something] X16 [something] [something] X16 That way you get ventilation space.
Just sold my i4770K, 16GB DDR3 and MSI Z87 GD65 without losing much! Now im off waiting 2 months for Haswell-E
Yeah, really pisses me off that the board manufacturers don't put more space between PCI-E slots (to save space/money??). Why do they still build them with the assumption that people use graphics cards that occupy only 1 slot width???? Or that people on X99 type chipsets don't do anything other than use 1 PCI-E slot for graphics card and nothing else. Really annoying that a normal decent modern high-end graphics card takes up two slots space and blocks the usable PCI/PCI-E slot underneath that I could have used for RAID/sound/other interface cards. Regarding X99, like the sound of 10 x SATA6. Also glad I didn't upgrade from X58 to 2011 now (once again not backward with 2011!).