Cheapest non-oc board is $89, cheapest semi-oc board is $99. Those are mATX boards, you can get decent ATX boards for around 100-110, im using newegg pricing.
Glad to see they are finally selling a "budget" motherbaord at the correct prices
When they first came out all the boards were in the $200 range. Ridiculous!
New new mobo will be needed any LGA1156 will be able to use the new cpus. You seem to forget the cpu has PCIE lanes. the video talkes over those lanes to the cpu... the only thing that seems to be needed that is special is either onboard video ports or a slot card to give the video ports. that is the only thing that hasnt bee talked about.
I am not forgetting anything. Why make that comment? Also you contradict yourself "the only thing that needs to be special" which is what I was asking, do we need something special to make this work?
Intels new on-chip IGP requires a new chipset to function, it's the H series if i remember correctly.
AMD's coming on-chip graphics core is for GPGPU use rather then graphics, at least that's what i read recently. Hence it'll probably work with current AM3 mobos after a bios update.
Intels current IGPs are just fine for non-gaming stuff, i'm on an X3100 right now. For gaming it's garbage, but if you don't need 3d effects there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Course it won't even think about decoding bluray for you. I don't think it even has a dvd decoder.
Yeah that is why I was asking. "taking over" the PCIE lanes on the socket 1156 processor still does not get that signal to your monitor. Using existing IGP boards, there would be another GPU in the way, an expansion slot card would be the most feasible explanation to make it backwards compatible. Based on Bobnova's explanation and a recent video Intel video I watched though, looks like it will in fact be a new platform launch though.
One other thing I saw in the video I thought was hilarious. they were demonstrating the onchip GPUs ability to play HD video. (in a 640x480 window on the monitor though,, and oohing and aahing about the clarity.. I found it quite funny)
You can play HD video on any processor out within the last few years, and GPU accelerated video uses only 3% of a HD3600 series capability.
EDIT: The video to which I am referring is here
EDIT EDIT:
I thought we had youtube embedding on this forum apparently not
The specific part is at 5 minutes in
word over @ XS is these new i5's and i3 chips (the duals) use the same mem controller as p45. thats why people havent been posting the easy huge memory overclocks.
(shameless) cross links.
post 15 here
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241328
another example
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241378
i guess it's gonna come down to being happy with a quad (870/860/750) @ 4 ~ 4.2GHz 24/7 w/ ram @ 2000 or 2200 (is the new hottness I think) or a 4.5GHz(+) dual w/ lower overall Ram.
i think the controller on the new 1156 quads is VERY strong and would hate to give that up 24/7. but 4.5+ for 24/7 is interesting.
Mmmmmm
No the memory controller is fine those links reference a register setting not the actual performance of the memory controller. And the other complaining about "only" being able to run 1500 ish MHz effective on the RAM is also running CAS 5