Anandtech "Lynfield vs Bloomfield" Write Up

[Kal-EL]

This is a nice read thru on Lynfield and Bloomfield guys. Interesting to me is the price vs performance graph. The question comes to play is the overclockability of the platform but if you're going 24/7 e-mail/rig action, its much cheaper on the P55 platform.

Overclocking wise, it appears the pci controller on the chip is the weak spot. I smell a hardmod to provide more voltage thru the pci-e transistors rather than overvolting the cpu to get it done.

Without further gibbering, heres the link: Anandtech's Bloomfield vs Lynfield (http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3634)

[dinos22]

just shove 1.8vcore and its all good :D

[Neuromancer]

That road map makes no sense. Single 16x or dual 8x only. But saw another thread comparing p55 trisli...


DMI BUS listed at 2GB/s max, yet listed as supporting upt to 7.5GB/s worth of peripherals (14 USB ports, 8 1x PCIe ports, 6 SATA ports, LAN and audio) Now granted it would be hard to max it out, but not nearly impossible, hopefully that BUS clock scales as well as FSB did on 775 :)

Will also be interesting to see how the PCIE bus being on die will OC for you really sick twisted benchers :)

[punx223]

thats a comparison of just cpu... many board manufacturers are using the hydra chip or the NF200 to add extra PCI-e lanes for more support of multi card setups

[Neuromancer]

How does it connect to the CPU though? Via the single 2GB/s link or the 16x pcie link?

Either case there should be some serious bottle necking going on.

[FACE]

I'm sure that the next revision of 1156 chips will correct that. If people bitch enough, they'll get what they want. Don't expect a nice price though.