Intel X79 express chipset - Intelligence in Action

The product has been officially released by the company on November 14 2011, and the initially supported processors are the core i7 family line.

 

Intel X79 brings along with it a pair of Serial ATA 3.0 ports with a maximum speed of 6 Gbit per second. With that, you are also getting four Serial ATA 2.0 ports with the maximum speed of 3Gbit/s as well as eight PCI Express 2.0 lanes.

 

When it comes to USB connectivity, Intel X79 comes equipped with a handful of USB 2.0 ports--14 of them to be specific. The product is compatible with processor, chipset and memory overclocking, and it also supports Intel’s proprietary Extreme Tuning Utility 3.0 (XTU) technology. The BCLK level stands at near about 100MHz. Other key features include Intel Gigabit Ethernet MAC, compatibility with SATA RAID, as well as write-journaling.

 

 

However, there are few drawbacks too-- according to a significant proportion of experts who have had the opportunity to have a look at the newly released product, the PCI Express controller featured by the product is somewhat less powerful than that featured by the CPU too. In addition, though the product boasts off having as much as 6 Serial ATA connections, only a couple of them are high speed SATA 6 Gbps ports, the rests belonging to the the age-old SATA 3 Gbps variant.

 

With such limited features, there is a pretty good possibility that your Solid State Drive may end up failing to give its peak performance.

 

Adding even more to the list of drawbacks in the product, the X79 also suffers from the absence of the SAS 6 Gbps interfaces that the fan boys from across the world were expecting it to feature.

 

Now, coming to the positive sides, with the X79 express chipset, you can have quick access to multimedia content such as videos, images, music as well as data files with RAID 0, 5 and 10. And when it comes to data protection, the chipset saves your back from a drive failure by exploiting the RAID 1, 5 and 10.

 

 

There are more-- the X79’s advanced technology makes sure that websites and businesses are provided with a convenient way to confirm that a particular user is logging into your service from an authenticated and trusted computer. This feature eventually makes sure that your account is not compromised, and taken over remotely even if someone phished your user ID and passwords successfully.

 

 

Overall- a nice product-- may not be as sophisticated and technologically advanced as we had been anticipating earlier-- but nevertheless, pretty good! However, we also recommend you to weigh down all its pros and cons before finally making up your mind whether or not to go with the purchase.

 

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