Thread: X58A Gigabyte UD7 designed to Gulf town

Today we present another proposal based on Intel X58 chip set introduced by Intel with the arrival of Nehalem and now also used by the proposed new six-core Gulf town.

The Intel X58 High End belongs to the band, and unlike a time, this chip set will be the only one compatible with the CPU Core i7 Socket LGA-1366 and, as for the mainstream segment of the Santa Clara socket submitted CPU Core i5 using the and a different chip set.

Compared to the Intel X48 chip set has moved the memory controller on the chip set in the CPU on-die so now the chip set has only a work of mediation between the CPU, the PCI-Ex and the ICH10R south bridge.

Intel also retired after years of loyal service, the FSB bus which implements was viewed more as a bottleneck that made it difficult to express the full potential of the new CPU.

It is then passed to a new type of point-to-point called Quick Path Interconnect, which provides much greater bandwidth. The FSB is a single channel so it can only be used for writing or reading, while the QPI is double channel then you can read and write contemporary and therefore theoretically the bandwidth is doubled because each one of the two channels are a band of 12.8GB / s.

QPI link will be exclusively dedicated to data transfer to devices with memory transfers administered by the embedded controller and the inter-CPU communications in multi-socket configurations through another liaison QPI. Even in the worst cases the QPI link should show significant increases in performance over the FSB.