The official launch of Intel's new LGA 1156 socket will be September 8th, this year. What a start for your new folding system 
These motherboards are based on the P55 Express chipset, three of which are aimed at gamers as members of the Extreme series, which have the recognisable skull on the bottom of the PCB. The codenames for these cards are Kingsberg (DP55KG), Sharpsburg (DP55SB) and Warrensburg (DP55WG).
The DP55KG and DP55SB support two graphics cards with the PCI-Express slots operating at 8x, and both SLI and Crossfire modes, while the DP55WG supports just Crossfire. If you want to fold with multiple GPUs in a smaller tower, the DP55SB uses the microATX form factor.
DP55KG, SB et WG characteristics are summarized in this chart.
Prices of the boards:
- DP55KG: £175, $285, €200
- DP55SB: £165, $270, €189
- DP55WG: £120, $200, €139
A fourth motherboard is also due out; the DP55WB "Whitesburg". It adopts the standard microATX form factor and has one PCI Express 16x, two PCI-e 1X, 6 SATA ports, a 5.1 audio controller, Gigabit LAN, 6 USB 2.0 ports, 1 firewire, and 4 slots for DDR3 1333 RAM. This motherboard will be sold at around £85, $135, €95.
The DP55WB motherboard from Intel.
Source: PCWorld & Matbe
Contributed by: Sun Fact
Translated by: KaySL
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On: 09/04/09
