Nehalem photo

[Lobovski]

Am i right in thinking we will see these chips around the end of this year/start of 09 ?

 

[tbh]

Am i right in thinking we will see these chips around the end of this year/start of 09 ?

That's what the current roadmaps say.

 

[krooton]

Socket LGA 1366 will be replaceing socket LGA 755, Wolfdale and the new quad core chips out soon will be the last 755 chips I beleave. Would be unwise investing in current chips and motherboards using a nigh end of life socket.

I disagree, someone not yet on 755 would do well to move to it now, better than staying with a weak machine for a year just because new tech is on the way.

 

[rjk]

every new cpu is another step closer to skynet. Arnold may be too old to save us now

but at 61 sly stallone is still making rocky/rambo films
perhaps he can fight the machines for us

governor schwarzenegggggger will be too busy wrapped up in the politics of it all to be worried about socket 1366 killing us all...

 

[melbourne720]

I disagree, someone not yet on 755 would do well to move to it now, better than staying with a weak machine for a year just because new tech is on the way.

Agreed, and it's not as if the oldest 775 boards work with the newest 775 chips - didn't the first 975 chipset not support Core 2 Duo chips...? What I'm saying is that the standard is always changing, so if you want to have the best you have to keep changing with it.

Besides, I have had this e6600 for over a year now, and it will be good if it lasts to this time next year too.

Glad Intel are continuly updating the architecture, wouldn't want them sitting on their laurels just because AMD are in the brown sticky stuff.

 

[Scoobie Dave]

That CPUs got a serious number of pads, imagine the size of the socket for this beast, there's also mentions of a LGA1160 socket.

Imagine the size of the waterblocks that are going to come out for them!

 

[Scoobie Dave]

Is any new tech a huge boost?

You have to remember we are drip fed technology for the sake of money.

And it's doughnuts like us that will keep on buying it!

 

[mrthingyx]

Two sockets and - depending on which articles are to be believed - they will be:

LGA715: average joe CPUs
LGA1160: Extreme Editions/high end stuff.

Or

LGA1160: average joe CPUs
LGA1366: Extreme Editions/high end stuff.

It seems that Intel may well separate the market on this one: by physically limiting the performance through socket/chip type, people who buy cheaper hardware will not get the ultimate performance as with Conroe (i.e. G33 motherboard, E2140 chip overclocked like bananas).

Something like AMD's Skt 754 and 939: the 754s were always limited by cache, clock speed, etc. and so would never perform like their 939 cousins.

Quite clever, really.

 

[krooton]

Clever, but mean

 

[manoz]

Two sockets and - depending on which articles are to be believed - they will be:

LGA715: average joe CPUs
LGA1160: Extreme Editions/high end stuff.

Or

LGA1160: average joe CPUs
LGA1366: Extreme Editions/high end stuff.

It seems that Intel may well separate the market on this one: by physically limiting the performance through socket/chip type, people who buy cheaper hardware will not get the ultimate performance as with Conroe (i.e. G33 motherboard, E2140 chip overclocked like bananas).

Something like AMD's Skt 754 and 939: the 754s were always limited by cache, clock speed, etc. and so would never perform like their 939 cousins.

Quite clever, really.

waaa? Does that mean we won't be able to run high end chips on matx boards?

 

[mattyrigby00]

it might be

LGA1160: single socket stuff
LGA1366: dual socket stuff

just like on AMD now its:

AM2 (PGA940): single socket stuff
Socket F (LGA1207): dual socket stuff

 

[mrthingyx]

it might be

LGA1160: single socket stuff
LGA1366: dual socket stuff

just like on AMD now its:

AM2 (PGA940): single socket stuff
Socket F (LGA1207): dual socket stuff

From all that I've read (yes, it's the Interweb, but hey), it indicates that the hardcore stuff will be 1366-only.

And I have no idea as to what impact motherboard size will have on socket selection.

 

[Lightnix]

1366 is the server socket, or so I am lead to believe. That'll have Nehalem-EX on it which is a native eight core processor, capable of handling sixteen threads at the same time.

I bet one of them doing software 3D rendering'd out do a GeForce 8500 GT.

 

[Sylver123]

so which socket is for us gamers?

 

[mrthingyx]

Wikipedia is undecided, and the rest of the internet is not much help.

The two socket combinations described above are how it is effectively going to come about - with server/workstation parts coming to LGA1366 either as well or individually.

Those will probably require FB-DIMMs, negating any performance benefit arising from their hardcore-ness.

 

[Jokester]

The triple channel memory interface of the Bloomfield (performance desktop) chip requires the 1366pins.

 

[Talrinys]

Tri channel, well that will be a massive boost to real life performance

Could be when used in the correct situation

 

[Lightnix]

Yes, real life synthetic benchmarks.

 

[Jokester]

Yes, real life synthetic benchmarks.

Dual channel gives a 5-10% boost over single channel in games.

 

[Final8y]

Is any new tech a huge boost?

You have to remember we are drip fed technology for the sake of money.

I totally agree.
Funny how the next standard is double at most & no more as if they could not do anymore at the time.
USB, DDR, PCIE,SATA just doubled from the version before & no more. the don't want to make a bigger jump & loose out on upgrade cycle.