Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Nov 2008 13:32 UTC
Intel Not too long ago, Intel unleashed Nehalem, or Core i7, upon the world. The new Core i7 chips are not just new processors; they also introduce an entirely new platform, and this combination produces some impressive performance figures, according to Ars Technica. "The new performance gap between Nehalem and pretty much everything else of comparable cost is the result of upgrades to both the CPUs core architecture and the platform on which the multicore chip now runs." Respected in-depth review sites AnandTech and Tom's Hardware agree with Ars' findings.
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SAS
by mdoverkil on Thu 13th Nov 2008 13:58 UTC
mdoverkil
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2005-09-30

I've been reading about some of the X58 based motherboards, several them come with SAS controllers. I'm excited about this simply because you used to have either buy a server/workstation board that would run north of $500. Or you bought a discrete RAID controller which was also quite expensive.

Not that these boards will be cheap, just nice to have SAS as an option on consumer level boards.