So how does the Renaissance period relate to a motherboard based upon Intel's latest Nehalem architecture and X58 Express Chipset, I here you ask? Well not a hell of a lot really! Nehalem is the codename for an Intel processor microarchitecture and subsequent successor to the Core microarchitecture. Manufactured on a 45nm process similar to Penryn, Nehalem sees a number of changes to processor architecture: an integrated memory controller supporting two or three memory channels; point-to-point processor interconnect, the Intel QuickPath Interconnect which replaces the legacy front side bus; the reintroduction of Hyper Threading, and second-level branch prediction and second-level Translation Lookaside Buffer to name a few.



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