The dual-channel version of Nehalem sports a new chipset: the P55
The lower-end Nehalem chips will be available soon. The new socket 1156 motherboards have invaded CeBIt show. This is great news for those who the price on Nehalem systems retained them to make the switch; these will likely cost less than the X58 tri-channel motherboards.
What you see here is an MSI G9P55-DC P55 board and a Biostar I55 P55 board, each with only four DIMM slots. The socket is also different than its bigger brother in that it has only three retaining screws. And as you probably already knew, the number of pins also went down from 1366 to 1156; since the memory controller is now integrated into the processor for Nehalem architecture, the decreased number of pins is allowed because there are two less DIMM slots.
So how will this chipset perform? If I recall the P35 and P45 chipsets, these were excellent overclockers. Will their successor be all the same? This is what we will know soon, when the reviews start to pop up on the Internet.
The lower-end Nehalem chips will be available soon. The new socket 1156 motherboards have invaded CeBIt show. This is great news for those who the price on Nehalem systems retained them to make the switch; these will likely cost less than the X58 tri-channel motherboards.
What you see here is an MSI G9P55-DC P55 board and a Biostar I55 P55 board, each with only four DIMM slots. The socket is also different than its bigger brother in that it has only three retaining screws. And as you probably already knew, the number of pins also went down from 1366 to 1156; since the memory controller is now integrated into the processor for Nehalem architecture, the decreased number of pins is allowed because there are two less DIMM slots.
So how will this chipset perform? If I recall the P35 and P45 chipsets, these were excellent overclockers. Will their successor be all the same? This is what we will know soon, when the reviews start to pop up on the Internet.
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