Are Intel supporting Socket 775 in the future ?

[jigger]

I seem to remember receiving something from Intel stating that support for socket 775 would continue for two years. Have I misread something ? I cant find anything to confirm this.

 

[DavyBoy]

I am sure I read somewhere that core 2's will be rebranded as i3 processors.. not sure if this is correct or not, but I am fairly positive I read this online..

 

[nightmare99]

775 will be around until 2011 but it will only be at the value end of the market, i.e Pentium Dual Core and Celeron, all the new mid range and high end chips will be released on 1156/1366.

 

[uk_unbeliever]

Should be able to make some very cheap but decent gaming systems with second hand 775 bits soon. the best c2d's still hold their value quite well but that may change soon.

 

[Nocky24]

I am sure I read somewhere that core 2's will be rebranded as i3 processors.. not sure if this is correct or not, but I am fairly positive I read this online..

Yup only as low end cpus im afraid. Despite that the core 2 duals and core 2 quads are currently holding their own in quite a lot of gaming benchmarks so for now, i really couldn't care less.

 

[valdai]

Yeah the i3 thing is correct, not sure if there will be any more releases under the i3 name though.

 

[EdGey]

i3? how pointless. reminds me of nvidia.