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Because Intel has a long history and tradition of changing sockets at the drop of a hat, none of which have had any compatibility with previous generation sockets. Hell, they have three sockets on the table, *now*. There's just no need for it at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix
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Originally Posted by aidanjt
To be fair, the guy at the desk next to me here upgraded his old S775 PC from Core2 duo to Core2 quad after a BIOS upgrade. The FSB is overclocked, but the configuration is supported. My Athlon X2 AMD kit from the same era couldn't take anything higher than a Athlon X2 as ASUS put too small a BIOS chip in there so supposedly they can't include the Phenom startup code.
Anyway, the original comment was:
"And also I think the upgrade options for the 1366 socket are going to be limited"
Well S775 has been (fairly) stable for a couple of years, but is all but dead now. Aren't the S1156 CPUs with and without graphics incompatible? That sounds like a recipe for farce to me. On top of that Intel have stated that S1156 can't cope with an 8 core CPU giving it a sunset date before it even gets started.
S1366 seems the pick of the crop atm. Pity about to price (so I bought AM3 :D ).
Yep from all reports the i3 while still being the same socket will be incompatable with p55 motherboards, you'd need a H57 chipset motherboard.
If people had read the full artical this motherboard is not being released on it's own, but in combination with the new Thuban hexa-core processor.
Also did people miss the new SATA 6Gbps on there as well?
It seems the 890G still uses a DX10.1 graphics core:
http://www.techpowerup.com/112338/AS..._Pictured.html
The motherboard in the link seems to be Crossfire capable too.
Gigabyte seem to have an 890GX based motherboard already:
http://www.techpowerup.com/113344/Gi...therboard.html
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/...md-890g-board/