nehalem chipset

 

Although much Intel has been delayed by the 45nm quadcores it is nevertheless convinced that the new series processors, namely the Nehalem, still in the last quarter of this year on the market. The desktop variant this, the Bloomfield, will have four cores and a shared cache of 8 MB. In addition, the Bloomfield also a triple-channel DDR3 controller which the bandwidth between memory and processor weather can make a big leap.

Information on the Nehalem processor was already given during the Intel Developer Forum this year, but about motherboards and chipsets for the processor was still no information released. The first chipset for the Nehalem according Expreview the X58 will be called, and will, as the name suggests, are aimed at high-end segment. Because the controller in Nehalem generation in the processor is, the chipset may be much more economical and smaller than the current high-end X38/X48 chipsets.

The X58 chipset has 32 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes, which can be divided into four 8x or 16x twice. It is therefore very likely that Crossfire support remains. The X58 will be linked to the current ICH10 / R southbridge, so at this level there will be no new features are present. Previously lekte there is a picture of an Intel motherboard, what Expreview sometimes an X58 could be.