Intel Nehalem uses Socket 775

Posted on Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 0:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

FUD Zilla heard from an Intel director that the Nehalem processor will use the LGA775 socket.

However, it will require a new motherboard:

He said that you will need a next generation chipset Catanga is the big codename and their internal was Ohio or Ioha. It is mainly because of the memory controller on the CPU and new interconnections. The same chat also said that they are very flexible on the CPU

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