How long a life span dose Core i7 Socket 1366 have???

ev0styLe · 17 Jan 2009 at 10:42

Tbh im not that worried about X58 supporting Westmere as a die shrink is not going to outperform Bloomfield by a large margin. Its still the same architecture and if your motherboard supports any chip on that architecture (Nehalem in this case), u should be alright.

Talrinys · 17 Jan 2009 at 10:54

ev0styLe said:
Tbh im not that worried about X58 supporting Westmere as a die shrink is not going to outperform Bloomfield by a large margin. Its still the same architecture and if your motherboard supports any chip on that architecture (Nehalem in this case), u should be alright.

Boosting uncore should go a long way to making it more competative in games though, i'm definitely looking forward to Westmere and might postpone my purchase until then.

Cob · 17 Jan 2009 at 13:46

Pay attention to chipsets, not sockets.

The socket is just a CPU holder, it's the chipset that determines what can and can't be run.

Nelly · 17 Jan 2009 at 13:53

How long a life span dose Core i7 Socket 1366 have???

Well looking at how things have been previously.

i7 is running at TDP 130W, only a presumption but I would expect Intel to release later this year maybe a TDP 95W versions as well as bringing out a new Extreme version, they will probally drop the Intel Core i7 965 3.20Ghz & bring in a non extreme version of that processor at a reduced price.

Then next year release the 32 nm Westmere CPU's, also will bring out revised editions of the motherboard chipset.

Just guessing but it makes sense to me, I reckon it will last 2-3 years.

I'll upgrade again . . . lol