Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Nov 2008 11:14 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
APCMag has tested Intel's latest Core i7 processor architecture that does away with the Front Side Bus and replaces it with the company's QuickPath Interconnect and has (back from the dead) hyperthreading. "This month, Intel moves on from the Core microarchitecture to the next generation of processors for mobile, desktop and servers, codenamed Nehalem and officially named the Core i7 family. We've spent a few weeks with Intel's test kit for the new desktop part, codenamed Bloomfield, as well as the new compatible motherboard chipset the X58 Express, codenamed Tylersburg."
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2007-01-13
Unless your into gaming any post 2005 CPU is more than fast enough (unless you use Vista).
Will this mean that your current Intel MB won't work? At least AMD usually keeps socket compatibility for years. Intel constantly break hardware compatibility for no apparent technical reason.