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Pssst! Want an Intel 'Nehalem' processor on the cheap? Well, just go and ask the chip giant for one. It's 2.66GHz 'Bloomfield' CPU has been price at just $284, it has been claimed. That's the batch price, of course. To get it, you'll have to buy a 1000 CPUs at once - boxed Bloomfields will come in slightly higher than that. …

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  1. pctechxp
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    bye bye LGA775

    Bang goes my idea of sticking one of these in my nforce 650i based board.

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  2. E

    @pctechxp

    Well, yes. Did you think all those pins for memory would fit in 775?

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  3. Mage Silver badge
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    1336 pins!

    Didn't they ever read Ivor Catt?

    How about 3 pins per bus, data in, out and clock?

    Easy to make the buss tracks all the same length and 400GHz data clock is possible (= 80GBytes / second duplex)

    Three pins for 64 bit PCI @ 66MHz is only 4.224GHz clock

    MUCH cheaper packages and motherboards.

    No reason not to have serial DDR3. It (serial interconnect) was done with PATA/IDE/ATAPI and Wide SCSI.

    Admittedly you might need teflon PCB, but two layers (signal/power on top, ground plane on bottom) would do.

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