Bloomfield processors ( LGA 1366 ) will appear in the end of present year, moreover the desktop version will appear only in the first quarter of the following year. This does not prevent, intel partners from presenting on Computex 2008 motherboard on base of intel x58 chipset.
Associates obtained at their disposal for a short period two motherboard with bloomfield processors , which work at 2.66 GHz frequency .
For the first time appears the possibility to compare the sizes of LGA 1366 processors and LGA 775 .
Motherboard with LGA 1366 socket will require new cooler .
CPU- Z cannot determine correctly the cache capacity in the second level of bloomfield processors - actuality it is equal to 256 KB. The cache in the third level with 8mb volume , is general for all four cores.
The quantity of virtual processor cores for Bloomfield is equal to eight due to of hyper-Threading technology support . Since motherboard are not ready for the 3 channel memory controller, associate have not tested the memory performance . However, even now bloomfield processor at 2.66 GHz frequency exceeds penryn generation processor with analogous frequency (Core 2 Quad q9450) on average by 20-50%. At 2.66 GHz frequency bloomfield processor can complete with Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (3.2 GHz). Related Products :
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