Frys leaks Core i5 750

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited August 2009 in Science & Tech
Frys leaks Core i5 750

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  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    Do i5 and i7 use the same sockets?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    Lynnfield Core i5: LGA1156, p55 chipset
    Lynnfield Core i7: LGA1156, p55 chipset
    Bloomfield Core i7: LGA1366, x58 chipset

    Yeah, it's completely ridiculous. I was hoping that AMD's socket 939/754 shenanigans was the last we'd ever see of two sockets carrying the same branding.

    Guess not.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    That's not confusing at all!

    A quick google tells me the i7 920 was nehalem-based and also LGA1366. Kinda sucks for adopters of the 920, unless they're going to continue to make Bloomfield cores.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    Bloomfield is here to stay. Bloomfield is in every way faster than Lynnfield parts, which are only slightly faster than Core 2 Quads.

    X58 chipset production will continue into 2010, there are several new LGA1366 chips coming soon, and then Westmere will also fit into LGA1366.

    Lynnfield is not a replacement. It's just a stupid budget part. :/
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    This is even less confusing! I suppose at least i5 < i7.
  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    I just bought an i7 920 and nearly had a heart attack reading this. But I should've known that Thrax wouldn't steer me wrong.
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited August 2009
    I personally am hoping (best case) that the Lynnfield and Gulftown processors knock the price of the Bloomfield i7's down a peg or two. If I can build a bloomfield-based PC without spending more than $500 canadian on the mobo/CPU combo, I'll do it.
  • Anonymous
    edited August 2009
    Both Lynnfield and Clarkdale (as well as Havendale and the mobile versions of such: Clarksfield and Arrandale as well Auburndale) have QPI but they are internal and do not have any QPI signals that leave the processor packaging (the "dales" have two dies and the "fields" have one).

    The PCH only replaces the ICH south bridge--the north bridge is subsumed by the processor (including memory controller and graphics bus and even graphics controller in the "dales").

    DMI was used to connect north and south bridges in the past and now comes straight off the processor packaging to the PCH.
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