That is not correct, you need to change Arrandale to Clarkdale. Arrandale uses mPGA989, whereas Clarkdale uses S1156.A good news. It looks like current P55 boards will support Arrandale processors with BIOS updates. My guess is the current economic climate as well as less-than spectacular market acceptance forced Intel to change its usual strategy, but it is a refreshing and welcome change nonetheless. (of course the on-package GPU will be disabled in this scenario)
We've known this for months. P55 doesn't have the FDI to pass the video signal to a monitor, but the CPUs will work just fine with a discrete GPU.A good news. It looks like current P55 boards will support clarkdale processors with BIOS updates. My guess is the current economic climate as well as less-than spectacular market acceptance forced Intel to change its usual strategy, but it is a refreshing and welcome change nonetheless. (of course the on-package GPU will be disabled in this scenario)
I found the following while searching on P55 boards.
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Not really that surprising. It's just a matter of pricing. When a big majority of the buyers prefer what will mean less expense for them (as in any industry), then it will seem like "single cores and dual cores are preferred over quads", when in fact, it's simply companies and regular users who just get the cheapest without much regards to performance or future-proofing of any sort (which is why Celerons and Semprons still abound - Intel and AMD need to capture that market surplus that their normal product lines would not meet).
They have so many lines now, that it is bound to be confusing to speculate on. Before, at least, you only pretty much had to discriminate between Celeron and Pentium, and for the "money-is-no-object" elite crowd, there were the "Extreme Editions" as well.
Now, you have the Pentium (which seems to be the lowly Celeron of today?), the i5, the i7, and the i3 to be inserted somewhere between the Celeron, err, Pentium, and the i5, and who knows if it will be closer to i5 rather than the Pentium.
Or, of course, I could be wrong, and someone more in tune with Intel's product line will set us right. I'm more interested in AMD products, so I've spent more time reading about their roadmap, so I may be totally off the mark when it comes to Intel products.
Doesn't look like this is going to happen.Looks like to me . You guys can buy these in retail on the 10th of dec. enjoy.your in for a treat.
Intel will begin sales of its Core i3, Core i5 and Pentium processors based on Clarkdale design on the 10th of December, 2009, to distributors, resellers and retailers, who may then sell central processing units, mainboards based on Intel Q57, Intel H55 and Intel H57 as well as other components to OEMs and other customers. Intels goal is to have systems based on the new chips available for sale by January 7, 2010, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
Nem is off by a month.Doesn't look like this is going to happen.
Intel Pentium G6950(Clarkdale based) IGP benchmarked:
http://www.parkoz.com/zboard/view.php?id=int_vganews&no=7762
Oh look, beats Geforce 210 and Radeon 4350 and that's at 533MHz clock...
I think the "preview" that Intel is talking about might mean reviewers will be able to benchmark them. Tomorrow.
That's cause of the pre-release driver.
A little newer one:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4032449&postcount=38
the ones above imply that Intel's somehow managed to more than double performance in the 2 months since we last saw benchmarks. I'm doubtful, but we'll see
That's cause of the pre-release driver.
A little newer one:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4032449&postcount=38
The top i5 (900Mhz) and the base pentium (533Mhz) have slightly different GPU clock speeds. I do feel sorry for the arrandale ULV owners, with a piddly 166Mhz base GPU speed.