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Looking at Intel's New-ish Desktop Socket, LGA 1366

Posted by timothy on from the odd-number-of-RAM-sticks-means-cognitive-dissonance dept.

Slatterz writes "LGA 1366 is Intel's first new desktop socket in four years. It uses the same ZIF design as the familiar LGA 775 architecture, but it incorporates many more contacts. These big architectural changes are backed up by some less visible advances. Until now, Intel's quad-core processors have been constructed from two dual-core dies, but now Core i7 brings together four cores on a single die. It's also Intel's first processor design to use an L3 cache, shared between all four cores."

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  1. Re:It *is* absurd by LordKronos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And you didn't even read my post. For crying out loud, I didn't say a damn thing about the OP. I said the AC asked a question. You seem to be having trouble remembering the context just a few posts into the thread, so I'll summarize it all here for you:

    argent:
    Monday June 01, @08:05AM
    Post #28166277

    ...the soft power pushbutton goes through the OS...

    Anonymous Coward
    Monday June 01, @08:25AM
    Post #28166403

    ...So, how does it happen that the "soft power pushbutton" works when the computer is off?

    argent
    Monday June 01, @10:10AM
    Post #28167523

    It doesn't. The computer is never off, it's just in idle mode