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Nehalem is a micro-architecture, whereas Bloomfield is a microprocessor, that is based on Nehalem. So saying Bloomfield instead of Nehalem is just a more specific. If it is a 950 then it must be a Bloomfield anyway, so there is no difference between them.
 
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Yeah Nehalem is the overall name for the current gen architecture. Nehalem includes all the i3, i5 and i7 variants and more - all the Lynnfields, Bloomfields, Gulftowns etc etc. So if you were confused by looking in the i7 section of the OCUK shop - they haven't been very consistent in their descriptions. They are all Nehalem. The two they have described as Nehalem should really say Lynnfield for the i7 860 and Bloomfield for the i7 975, if they were being consistent with the other i7s in the shop which they have described by the processor name.

Generally the value-for-money sensitive folks on here would buy the slowest/cheapest in a particular range (unless a model up is hardly any more money, or even cheaper as with the i5 760 vs i5 750) because it is usually exactly the same thing as the more expensive models just with a lower multiplier. For example you would be pretty crazy to pay for the i7 960 or 975 when the much cheaper 950 can just be overclocked to the same level as the other two. The more expensive models will only be worthwhile for uber-cryo-overclocking benchmarkers who can use the higher, or completely unlocked in the case of the Extreme edition models, multipliers.
 
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