"AREA X79": Was it on the Intel Roadmap?

[DMars1]

Although I continue to find posts that claim that the question regarding PCIe 3.0 capability on the 2011 socket, X79 chipset motherboards has been officially answered and people need to "Move ON because the answer is NO, there isn't support because there is no CPU produced that has the "key" that is required to

"unlock" the advertised and promised PCIe 3.0 slots on all of these X79 motherboards.

I personally have been sent down many paths and trails that obviously are straying away from the Intel Roadmap. I do not believe the question is answered and I am hoping that someone within Intel will take a long and hard look at the position that millions of its customers have found themselves in and regardless of fault or blame or cost; would turn this obvious obstacle into a success story for both the customers and Intel the Corporation.

It doesn't matter who did what at the Corporate level, because when you look at each individual customer one by one, and can plainly see, each are losing or have already lost, hundreds of dollars because each customer was paying for something that Intel has made very clear; does not exist.

Everyone loses when something like this happens unless the leadership within at least one of the Corporations involved makes the hard but integrity based decision to provide the necessary leadership to do what all Corporations claim they are trying to improve; care for the customer

There is no reasonable answer that I have yet to find that can explain how I ended up buying $2,000 in PC components based on the advertised promise that I would have a PC build that would support my PCIe 3.0 components and would be very "future-proof", and yet I have sold off at a considerable loss each of these components that "were before their time" and should never have been placed on the market.

Below is evidence that the issue is very much still being mismanaged. This short section is taken off of the advertisement page for a P9X79 WS motherboard that is claiming: with the right components this motherboard will provide PCIe 3.0 capability.

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor family for the LGA 2011 Socket

This motherboard supports the latest 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor family for the LGA 2011 Socket, with memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to quad-channel (8 DIMMs) DDR3 memory and 40 PCI Express 3.0 lanes. This provides great graphics performance. 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor family for the LGA 2011 Socket is one of the most powerful and energy efficient CPU in the world. http://usa.asus.com/Server_Workstation/Workstation_Motherboards/P9X79E_WS/ http://usa.asus.com/Server_Workstation/Workstation_Motherboards/P9X79E_WS/

In 2006 I found myself in the eye of a storm, representing

thousands of customers around the world regarding an issue with a very largeand extremely well known Computer Corporation. After nearly two years of workwhich included multiple trips to the company headquarters, meetings with VP's,engineers, the CEO, and everyone in between, the company, in the end did whatastounded many in the PC world; it apologized and upgraded every customerworld-wide, free of charge, to the newest version of this high end PC, whichwould enable what the first advertised version had promised but was"UNABLE" to make good on.

I have been following this particular story with great

interests because, # 1 I purchased $2500 of PCIe 3.0 related components, withthe advertised promise that I had nothing to worry about. # 2 Because thisparticular story makes the previous one that I was involved in look like a verysmall issue, when in fact it was huge and set a precedent unmatched to thisday. # 3 Because of the lack of unrest that I have been able to find within thePC world; especially that segment that includes those that are gamers,enthusiasts, home workers that are depending on big promises to get their jobsdone, and then of course all those who build their own PC's. # 4 This problem isnot isolated to just the Intel X79 Chipset, but it also is very much tied tothe Intel Z77 Chipset, as the Z77 chipset was an advertisement nightmare thatshould have been leapt upon yet no one seemed to notice.

The Intel Z77 Chipset provides a total of 16 PCIe lanes.

Apart from motherboard makers throwing in "hack" parts to increaselane number, the Z77 was a disaster for a gamer or enthusiast or even awork-at-home person who was going to be relying on a second PCIe component suchas the Areca 1882ix-12 Rev 3.0 Raid Controller Card. What was the thinking when the Z77 Chipsetwas built, knowing that you could only populate one X16 slot and anything afterthat meant a decrease in the capacity of each slot as another component wasadded.

The Z77 was not capable of providing SLI with PCIe 3.0

because if you populated the second X16 3.0 slot the first became X8 (orbasically a 2.0 X 16) and the same happened to the second. If you added a thirdcomponent to the PCIe 3.0 slots you dropped to X8, X4, X4. To make it really simple, the motherboard wasan interim disaster and nothing should have been put on the market to pullpeople away from motherboards that were providing 40+ lanes of 2.0. The Z77 isone of the biggest and unspoken about failures, just as the X79 Chipset is.

The X79 is an Intel Chipset and Intel knew that to release

that Chipset, to be fair to the motherboard makers and to be fair to the videocard vendors, it was up to Intel to provide the mysterious and hidden"GAMING KEY" so that all of these enthusiasts and gamers, etc. wouldbe able to enjoy the thrill of what they had just spent thousands on, when in...