bit-tech News: Nehalem and X58 show up in Taipei - 05/30/08 05:07 PM
Hi all,
We have just published some pictures of an engineering sample Intel
Nehalem processor and an early X58 development board. If you could post
a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.
*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/30/nehalem-and-x58-show-up-in-taipei/1
*Quote:
*/"First, the CPU and its new socket: while the roadmaps say the
high-end Nehalem to be launched in Q4 will have up to eight cores, the
one MSI had in its office was just a quad-core but with eight threads.
The socket is still LGA, but instead of the 775 used on current boards,
this one now features 1366 pins and is slightly rectangular – not
Pentium Pro rectangular, but simply a stretched out square.
The back of the socket now has a metal backplate to brace itself and I’m
afraid you’ll be buying a new heatsink too because the socket fittings
have changed since LGA775. In fact, the whole area that needs to be
exclusively for “Intel CPU use” is now apparently over twice the volume
of that compared to LGA775 giving motherboard manufacturers even less
space to shoehorn in additional components."/
*
*Cheers guys!
Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net
We have just published some pictures of an engineering sample Intel
Nehalem processor and an early X58 development board. If you could post
a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.
*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/30/nehalem-and-x58-show-up-in-taipei/1
*Quote:
*/"First, the CPU and its new socket: while the roadmaps say the
high-end Nehalem to be launched in Q4 will have up to eight cores, the
one MSI had in its office was just a quad-core but with eight threads.
The socket is still LGA, but instead of the 775 used on current boards,
this one now features 1366 pins and is slightly rectangular – not
Pentium Pro rectangular, but simply a stretched out square.
The back of the socket now has a metal backplate to brace itself and I’m
afraid you’ll be buying a new heatsink too because the socket fittings
have changed since LGA775. In fact, the whole area that needs to be
exclusively for “Intel CPU use” is now apparently over twice the volume
of that compared to LGA775 giving motherboard manufacturers even less
space to shoehorn in additional components."/
*
*Cheers guys!
Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net