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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. Not the new desktop socket by nxtw · · Score: 5, Informative

    LGA 1366 is intended for servers, workstations, and high-end gaming PCs. LGA 1156 will be the mainstream
      desktop socket.

    What's the difference? IIRC, LGA 1366 has a tripe-channel memory controller and support for dual CPUs (via another QuickPath link). LGA 1156 has dual-channel memory support with support for only one CPU.

    The desktop CPU for LGA 1156 will be called Core i5.