Sandy Bridge will Show up LGA 2011
We heard of JCornell over at XtremeSystems that a teaser image about Intel’s 32nm Sandy Bridge processors, which comes in the form of socket shots of the LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge chips.
It is said that these sockets are almost perfectly square, and LGA 2011 is set to supersede LGA 1366 (Socket B) in the Sandy Bridge E series processors.
In order to hold down the processor, it will be flanked by two retention latches, but it may cause some new challenges for motherboard manufacturers, and inexperienced customer will damage the motherboard under usage.
It’s imperative that LGA 2011 takes the place of LGA 1366, for the former means quad channel, which performs better than tri-channel; In addition to that, the 2011 socket will have integrated graphics and PCI-Express bus. The design will increase in pins.
Pictures courtesy of Brightsideofnews
August 11th, 2010 at 9:40 am
How many core version?
August 11th, 2010 at 10:36 am
8 at highest according to Wikipedia, unless Intel gets a brainwave and decides to do a Dual-Die MCM 16 Core version of Sandy Bridge E: Highly unlikely but definitely something to watch out for and consider as a substitute for AMD’s 16-core Interlagos.
August 15th, 2010 at 2:49 am
Lots of Speculation going around, I heard the LGA 1155 socket would support 2 and 4 core CPUs with integrated graphics, while the Sandy E socket LGA2011 would support 4, 6, and 8 core CPUs, without graphics but with Quad Channel memory and integrated north bridge. Also heard they will be calling part of the E series i9. Maybe just the 8 cores??? You know what this means larger motherboards to accomodate the 8 memory cards. Can’t wait to get my hands on the new ASUS Rampage 4 Extreme HotDamn!!!
August 17th, 2010 at 2:17 am
That a version of single-socket server will also be made available for extreme desktop users as they have with LGA1366 is not justification to get overexcited and not consider how other markets are affected by the implication behind an LGA2011 common socket.
Intel created more segmentation when Nehalem arrived, I doubt they will asymilate that segmentation with a common server socket with no feature or specification differences between the CPUs except for how many per board. Not even AMD does it anymore; they use C32 (LGA1207) for 1S/2S markets with dual-channel DDR3 while they use G34 (LGA1974) for 2S/+4S markets with quad-channel DDR3. 1S only is AM3. Intel, like now, will also have three sockets to compete at the same levels: 1S only with LGA1155 (dual-channel), 1S/2S LGA1356 (triple-channel) and 2S/+4S LGA2011 (quad-channel).
For those of you that forgot your history, Nehalem was initially designed to scale from 2-8 cores. Up until recently AMD refused MCM as they transistioned from dual- to quad- to 6-core. Had Bulldozer brought a single die 8-core, Nehalem-EX in LGA1567 would still have been better, that was the plan. But out of no where AMD accepted MCM and debuted a 12-core, and now Bulldozer will bring a 16-core. What’s the problem? Available rumors of Westmere-EX is that it has just 10-cores, there isn’t enough space for more cores in LGA1567 — this is the reason for LGA2011 to begin with. I’m sure Intel is hoping a 12-core with 40 lanes of PCie 3.0 will all fit because they desparately need it. Problem is Sandy Bridge-EX isn’t scheduled to arrive for at least 18 months.
August 18th, 2010 at 4:49 am
How can anyone know so much Mr. Lehpron? Have you been paying attention in class again?
August 18th, 2010 at 6:09 am
Just my opinion MeanBruce, you or anyone doesn’t have to buy into any of this. I just dislike the enthusiast-centric approach to rumorhunting, as if everything else Intel does has no impact on us — despite X58 using a dual-CPU socket… I did my research considering the whole shabang, I don’t see too many rumormills doing the same.
For now, I believe LGA1356 (Socket B2) will replace LGA1366 (Socket B), similar to a pin pulled from LGA1156 still allows enough space to fit a quad with an GPU in LGA1155. Intel will prefer the cheapest change possible to net the most sales.
Intel already has those of us that choose them by the balls, if we haven’t already gone to AMD for whatever reason, then there is no need for Intel to waste money [to make an LGA2011 enthusiast platform] to keep us. We speak with our wallets, Intel knows we won’t leave.
But hey, we got another year and I could have read the tea leaves wrong.
August 18th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Hey I like your input Mr. Lehpron! Yes I get excited about new hardware, anything that runs faster cooler or quieter and/or more efficient. I have my pc running at 6dB all noctua fans, with a 10dB fan for the Corsair HX 850 psu. So as a silent enthusiast any die shrink is exciting. Hope you are looking forward to the new LGA2011 I am planning a new motherboard Asus Rampage 4, along with quad channel memory to take me through both Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Then looking forward to Haswell in 2012 or 13. Be cool brother!
August 18th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Something else on the horizon, Softpedia.com has an article on DDR4, yup DDR4! Speeds are set to be 2133Mhz to 4266Mhz. Says samples will ship next year. Hurray! Probably will be ready for Intel Haswell.
August 18th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
I think LGA2011 will come out eventually, but it will remain a very exclusive choice. I think both in the gpu and the cpu businesses everyone is just waiting for foundries to get their new processes up and running.
May 21st, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Must adore the effort you add into your blog