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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. Kittens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Kittens are kinda awesome.

  2. Pictures? by AltGrendel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A picture of the socket instead of the chip would have been helpful.

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  3. Re:Not the new desktop socket by 313373_bot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For what it is worth, looks like artificial market segmentation = bad for upgraders. AMD is guilty of that, too.

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  4. Re:Not the new desktop socket by 313373_bot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Point taken, perhaps "artificial" wasn't the best way to put it. But again, with few exceptions, the high-end technology of today becomes the mainstream of tomorrow.

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