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INTEL APPEARS TO BE be sticking with its two tier CPU socket system for the foreseeable future, as details of Intel's X58 platform replacement have made their way online. The upcoming LGA1155 platform with the Cougar Point chipset and the Sandy Bridge DT processors will target the entry level and mainstream market, while the Patsburg chipset and the Sandy Bridge E processors should use a new LGA2011 socket for the high-end market space.

So far we’ve only heard bits and pieces about this upcoming platform, but now VR-Zone has come up with what appears to be a full set of solid details about Intel’s high-end platform for 2011. As with the current Bloomfield and Gulftown based processors, Sandy Bridge E should be very similar to its Xeon siblings and specifically the Sandy Bridge EN which should use the same CPU socket. The higher-end Sandy Bridge EP and EX CPU’s use a different socket that is currently known as socket R, while the uniprocessor CPU’s to which the consumer model belongs have to make do with socket B2 due to the lack of a secondary QPI interface.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/04/...lace-x58-2011/

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