Intel Socket 1155 NOT 1156

[techead]

Im thinking of upgrading, but im reading some stuff that makes me think that Intel are just screwing us around a bit...

I would be annoyed if I was an owner of a socket 1366 mobo... coz shortly after bought it BAM out comes the 1156

now what is this about socket 1155 ? :erm:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-261840_12_0.html

thoughts?

Im thinking that Im gonna put this upgrade on hold

 

[chickenbeef]

1156 is meant to be the mainstream set of stuff, 1366 is high end afaik

 

[czc]

Last I heard 1155 is supposed to be intels new graphics and cpu in one processor. Basically integrated graphics.

 

[TheRift]

Hmmm... so 1 pin down and you get a graphics card. If they put a network card on the core, will it then become 1154? What do you get with socket 1?

 

[eitai2001]

Seeing as you now get i7 on 1156, do you guys think 1366 will fall away and be replaced by 1156, Intel is confusing the crap out of me?

 

[techead]

ive been doing a LOT of reading...

looks like intel is not going to scrap 1366, this will be there performance socket. as they scale up the cores on the cpus, the tripple memory controller is going to become more and more of a benefit as the number of cores increase

while the memory controller on the 1156 will always be dual, and those cpus wont go above 4 cores.

so looks like they will hang onto both sockets, from what I can see anyway

but ya, it IS confusing, its taken me a lot of reading to understand all this... and of course this stupid turbo mode... haha! good thing I read up on that, totally NOT what I thought it was LOL

 

[eitai2001]

ive been doing a LOT of reading...

looks like intel is not going to scrap 1366, this will be there performance socket. as they scale up the cores on the cpus, the tripple memory controller is going to become more and more of a benefit as the number of cores increase

while the memory controller on the 1156 will always be dual, and those cpus wont go above 4 cores.

so looks like they will hang onto both sockets, from what I can see anyway

but ya, it IS confusing, its taken me a lot of reading to understand all this... and of course this stupid turbo mode... haha! good thing I read up on that, totally NOT what I thought it was LOL

Lol, what is the Turbo then

 

[chickenbeef]

Turbo mode is auto ocing i think, when you're running a single threaded app the cpu will automatically OC one of the cores. Am i right?

 

[eitai2001]

Well yeah, I think Turbo is autooverclocking with asus app, thought maybe something different now.

 

[techead]

guys go and read this page about the turbo feature.. good job intel

Homework: How Turbo Mode Works

AMD and Intel both figured out the practical maximum power consumption of a desktop CPU. Intel actually discovered it first, through trial and error, in the Prescott days. At the high end that's around 130W, for the upper mainstream market that's 95W. That's why all high end CPUs ship with 120 - 140W TDPs.

Regardless of whether you have one, two, four, six or eight cores - the entire chip has to fit within that power envelope. A single core 95W chip gets to have a one core eating up all of that power budget. This is where we get very high clock speed single core CPUs from. A 95W dual core processor means that individually the cores have to use less than the single 95W processor, so tradeoffs are made: each core runs at a lower clock speed. A 95W quad core processor requires that each core uses less power than both a single or dual core 95W processor, resulting in more tradeoffs. Each core runs at a lower clock speed than the 95W dual core processor.

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3634&p=4

I highly recommend reading the whole article, its excellent!