Thread: GB Invitational Editor's Day 2009 -P55

As details of forthcoming Lynnfield processors and P55 chipset-founded CPU boards hit the scene, there is a developing buzz within the industry about the consequences of bringing Nehalem down into the conventional market segments. While X58 and Core i7 function dominates, entire system costing has kept few average consumers expecting to upgrade wistfully on the fence. That roadblock will probably be cleared through P55 as the companies involved eagerly look to see widespread adoption of the high functioning and relatively cheap platform.

On August 18, 2009, Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, California was host to Gigabyte's Invitational Press Day. The activity promised to accommodate an advisory attending at Intel's Lynnfield processor, forth with the P55 platform. Representatives from Gigabyte, Intel, and Kingston were accessible to accommodate demonstrations and acknowledgment questions on their accessible technology and artefact line-ups.

After a sudden greeting and addition through the Vice President of Gigabyte, we got appropriate into the significant capacity as keynote speaker, covered Lynnfield technology and its achievement benefits. Francois spent some time



answer the advantages of the new belvedere as able-bodied as Lynnfield's Turbo feature. Basically, Intel has aesthetic their Turbo approach technology to accommodate alike added achievement for threaded applications and he explained how consumers will account from these advancements.

A new appliance was additionally demoed in adjustment to appearance CPU alarm aberration in absolute time, which allows users to adviser Turbo technology at work. The apparatus is alleged TMonitor and is accessible to download for chargeless appropriate here. We aren't accustomed to abduct the barrage of the accessible Lynnfield reviews by talking about specific numbers but the achievement increases over Core 2 looked absorbing and the activity accumulation will acceptable be a above affairs point too.

In all, Gigabyte affairs to put eleven P55 motherboards on the market. You apprehend that right, eleven altered models including two micro-ATX sized boards to accomplish up for the actuality that they absitively not to accomplish a baby anatomy agency X58 product. The best agitative archetypal for enthusiasts will apparently be the P55-UD6 which has three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, 24 appearance power, DDR3-2200 compatibility, and six DIMM slots. It is still a bifold approach configuration, but the adequacy to acquiesce for six anamnesis sockets has been added.